Stanford's Win Over USC Gives Cardinal A Bump In The BCS Rankings
Stanford's first win of the season against a ranked team helped Andrew Luck and the Cardinal move up in the BCS standings.
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Stanford's first win of the season against a ranked team helped Andrew Luck and the Cardinal move up in the BCS standings.
After suffering a 3 OT loss to Stanford, the USC Trojans remained in the AP Top 25, coming in at #21, down from #20 .
David Shaw waited through nearly a full year of blowout victories to see what Stanford would do when faced with real pressure and dire circumstances.
Freshman safety Tevin McDonald made the first three interceptions of his college career, Derrick Coleman scored three touchdowns, and UCLA bounced back from one of its most embarrassing losses in years to beat California 31-14 on Saturday.
USC basketball will rise or fall based on the success of a 5-foot-7, 148 pound point guard, Maurice Jones.
An hour before their respective crosstown rivals meet at the Coliseum for a showdown between two nationally ranked teams, UCLA and California will get together several miles away at the Rose Bowl for more modest stakes.
UCLA is picked to win the first Pac-12 basketball title. The Bruins haven't won a league crown since 2008, when they made the last of three consecutive trips to the Final Four.
Stanford's Andrew Luck will finish just ahead of Southern California's Matt Barkley in just about every football metric that counts if both quarterbacks head to the NFL next year.
Ellis McCarthy is described as one of the most mild-mannered, polite, friendly students at Monrovia (Calif.). Short of helping little old ladies cross the street, there is only one way you'd recognize that he's a football player.Ellis McCarthy is 6-foot-4 and weighs 305 pounds.
Lane Kiffin could have bemoaned yet another ugly twist in his rather unusual coaching career when the NCAA hammered Southern California's storied football program with heavy sanctions just a few months after he returned.
