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USC-UCLA Live Blog

First, my pick for the game: I think this game actually favors USC, as it faces a team with a spotty offense.

Now USC’s defense has proved it can make any offense look good. But I think Caleb Williams and Co. will have some success against UCLA’s defense. So with that said, I’m taking USC, 45-28. Who do you like?

  • The Daily Trojan defeated the Daily Bruin, 13-8, in the Blood Bowl on Friday night.
  • How many people are going to brave the rain today?
  • I’m going to be posting most updates in the twitter column on the right side of this page. Feel free to post comments here.

79 thoughts on “USC-UCLA Live Blog”

    1. USC needs to find a way to cut ties with Lincoln Riley.

      USC needs to start praying that there’s an NFL team dumb enough to take that fraudulent clown Riley off their hands because that hick doesn’t fit and never will.

      Hell, Jen Cohen should get in touch with Texas A&M and see if they want this idiot Lincoln Riley.

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      3. ‘Ol Mule Shoe won’t leave $80 million on the table unless there’s some NFL or college team making him another offer he can’t refuse.

        If he gets an offer close to what’s left on his current contract he’ll leave, he knows he doesn’t fit at USC and that he’s been exposed and he’s not wanted.

        I mean fucking throwing away an entire season and fucking over the reigning Heisman Trophy winner because he didn’t want to fire his boyfriend is inexcusable…fuck him!

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    2. Mr. Wolf posted this blog early so he could get back to the Rocket on Hawthorne Blvd. to start drinking again.

      He might end up being passed out by halftime

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    3. LOL!

      The Ladies of Troy just gave up on that UCLA PAT as the holder and kicker almost muffed the kick, it should have been blocked if there were any effort being given by the defense

      WOW!

      FUCKING SAD!

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  12. LOL AGAIN!

    THAT GIRL CENTER DEIDICH GOT BEAT AND JUST STOPPED PLAYING, STANDING THERE WATCHING THE PASS RUSH GET TO CALEB WILLIAMS…HOLY HELL!

    AHA HA HA HA HA!

    WTF?

    THEY SHOULD SIT HIS ASS DOWN FOR LACK OF EFFORT

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    1. Dedich is the leader for this o-line. No wonder they suck so bad. he just allows guys to run past him. He is a pathetic center.

      I cant imagine any NFL team is going to draft him, maybe in the late rounds.

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  13. Watch the Ladies of Troy secondary, on a UCLA running play the DB’s/CB’s don’t even try to track down the runner, they just stop to watch who’s going to try and make a tackle

    That’s fucking pathetic!

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    1. I see shane lee just jogging, or is that his top speed?

      this whole team just sucks.

      i really hope riley takes his shit somewhere else. please texas a&m take this loser off our hands.

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    1. I still say that we need to give this guy some time. He’s got a $100 million contract. His reputation as a coach has suffered damage and I think that’s deserved. Let’s see what he can do to repair it.

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  16. Hey guys, please stick on the topic of the game. I know it’s really tough to watch our defensive backs play like three blind mice, but the other comments have been inappropriate

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      2. YOU SENILE SACK OF SHIT…. THEY ARE TWO. DIFFERENT PEOPLE…. QUIT BEING A FUCKING INSTIGATOR OR I AM GOING TO. GIVE YOU A GOOD ASS WHIPPING…. ITS CREEPY HOW OBSESSED YOU GET. SEEK HELP

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  18. Terrible defense, penalties on top penalties, terrible offensive line and turnovers. Have I missed anything?

    I swear I’m watching a Clay Helton coached team.

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  19. Kinda funny seeing all these people pick USC with 40 plus points. Only gonna have 7 at half time. UCLA strength is pass rush so LR chooses to pass every play. Game plan was abandon the run. Don’t deny what we’re seeing don’t make excuses. We’re getting worse every week. This team doesn’t believe in their coach.

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    1. The o-line cant run block, so why do you want to run?

      Caleb has been able to move out of the pocket, so the problem is the receivers not getting open. But the main issue is turnovers and red zone offense.

      Agree that the coach has lost the team.

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  25. Stop blaming the players, this is strictly the coaching, and it isn’t one side of the ball, it’s the entire team. Stinkin Piley has lost the team, and they’ve really tried to buy in, which makes it worse.

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  26. I just don’t see the physical talent in most of the players. When we got players through the portal, they were a huge improvement over what we had. But the reality is that even those players were mostly second stringers from other schools. Our O line was very thin, and they have been banged up and it shows. The defensive secondary has been a dumpster fire and I don’t know who is responsible for that but if it’s Donte Williams, he should be replaced

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  27. Keep waiting to hear that Riley’s going thru a divorce or something because this team is so poorly coached. He’s either got personal problems or he’s just checked out.

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  28. Well coached teams get better during the season. Poorly coached teams get worse. This team is literally falling apart

    If LR didnt have a 100 million contract, I would say it is time to move on. The new AD has her work cut out for her. She needs to convince Riley that everything he is doing is wrong and he needs to change 100%. He isnt right for this program at all. He could do better at Texas A&M where they will provide all the support he needs.

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    2. He fired Grench which was the right thing to do. But the problems on this team all year long were the whole defense and the O-Line. True, we brought in some really good experienced players from the transfer portal. But you can have really good players and a horrible O-Line if those really good players are not playing as a team. He had all year to get these players to play together and yet their last game of the year was their worst. I would get rid of the O-Line coach.

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  32. Just as a correction of fact: not only did USC have one of the best per star average rosters when Stinkin came in, but he recruited for USC in his last year at Oklahoma brining in his OU recruits and picking up SC’s recruits, AND he brought in the core of his OU offensive players… And this is supposed to be two years of the best transfers, who definitely were not second string mostly. Those were mostly the starters from other programs looking for the $$$ and Hollywood. And recall that USC is littered with 5 star players– more than all but a handful of programs.

    What some people with their heads in the goddamn sand won’t realize is that, say, a 5 star freak like Damian Williams repeatedly looking in the backfield and thus losing his coverage is because he’s taught to do so. OL not kicking out or taking the wrong position on leverage is bad coaching. OL being pressured by a scramble drill offense where the roll outs of QB runs aren’t designed is just bad coaching.

    Grinch was telling kids to drop 50l bs up front because he said he wanted to be a fast Jimmy Johnson style defense. Johnson was an incredibly strong coach in scheme and technique and he anchored his defenses with large unstoppable rushers. Think of how childish it is for Riley to have approved that sort of simple-mindedness.

    We could go on and on and see and talk about a clear break down of good technique and poor play that comes from a shitty system of the Air Raid. USC is where talent goes to die.

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  35. Stinkin Piley got far more support at USC than he will anywhere, any time. And all the freedom he wanted… He didn’t like being under Stoops thumb but he enjoyed the fact that he had no one to play against in that bs Big 12 during his time.

    When he was under Stoops’ thumb he had to run more and pretend to have some complimentary fb, but at each step he went more Air Raid, more fraud and hustler in self promotion to run up passing stats against bottom of the barrel teams.

    As more coaches figured out how to defend the gimmick offense, the sadder it became for Stinkin Piley, and the more he demanded a gambling defense and always chose play calling that sacrificed the defense.

    That’s who he is. And the people that like Stinkin tend to be unfamiliar or have the same shallow notions: they wanted a “hot name”, some younger guy who wears a visor, flash and no substance, don’t give a sht about student-athletes and their development, wanted someone who would win an opening presser, give them something to talk dumb ish about on social media and forums, not an interest in the game itself, don’t give a ish about value sand traditions, hero worship, etc. That’s the problem, ‘SC has been hollowed out.

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    1. I admit to being someone who thought Riley was the real deal.

      One thing I realize is that his personality is not right for USC. Pete Carroll had a personality that allowed him to leverage the Hollywood aspect of USC. Riley is a very private person and as a result, he completely loses the benefit of the glitz and glamor of LA to attract the best players. Too bad, because in the age of NIL, this could be a huge advantage in recruiting.

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      1. He’s arrogant and stubborn, but not personable to either recruits or peers or boosters.

        He also has a petty Texas hang up with resentment of California. He’s obviously half hearted about USC, California and its scene, tradition, and standing.

        As much as Piley feels he’s too cool for some of the yahoo antics of OU, his comments on recruiting make it clear, as does his hiring, recruiting and avoidance of the USC and California / West Coast hs and coaching and booster scene.

        PC lived for that stuff, he grew up as a California guy rooting for SC as the most dominant fb program in the country, and he embraced the tradition of football coaches in the region who at one time absolutely defined football, Bill Walsh, Don Coryell, etc.

        Piley seems to resent all of that. It’s ironic because the bastard version of an offense he runs is a branch of an offense that came out of the ecosystem of high school and college fb in the West.

        Only difference is that he thinks he’s gamed a version of it to feed his career at the cost of everyone else. In some ways it’s like him and some other Mike Leach gys learned all the wrong things from the Late Great Pirate,– not his flexibility and making the best of what you have and being a believer in student athlete development and loving people…

        The BYU offense was big in the region before we got its greatest expositor in modern times in Norm Chow, who won championships not just Heismans. There was a wealth of resources at USC for him to embrace and to mold with his own ideas, toward finally winning big games.

        Piley never gave himself or USC a chance. Better that he goes to the NFL where you can’t touch a receiver, but Kingsbury washed out even with that. Meh, Texas A&M?

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  38. Lincoln Riley took over a stoops program. When stoops players and foundation started to ebb away, Riley had to get out. He’s an air raid simpleton who doesn’t understand the fundamentals of natty level football. Defense is something you do between offensive possessions. He’s out of his league as far as understanding how to build a program from the ground up.
    The 2 biggest football powerhouse high schools in the nation are literally minutes away from him and he’s somewhat a stranger to them. We were so desperate to get the Helton joke behind us, we settled for the exact opposite of what we needed. Sorry, a Mike Leach program will never win anything except a meaningless bowl game. Maybe.

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    1. I think that this years failures have led to a pardigm shift in LR’s thinking about defense. I don’t think he ever wants to have another year like this. I think we will get a great DC. What he really needs is a great O-Line coach. I’m not convinced that he’s willing to fire our O-Line coach.

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      1. For 2 years now they have been screaming for the head of Alex Grench which finally led to his being fired. What I can’t figure out is why isn’t anyone screaming for the head of the O-Line coach. Much of the defensive coaching staff should go(I’d hang onto the D-Line coach). But the O-Line coach should go too. These guys are making close to (and even more than) a million each. For that kind of pay you must get results. One year after ND went 4-8, Brian Kelly fired his whole coaching staff. But I am really surprised that the fans aren’t screaming for the head of the O-Line coach.

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  39. 2 missed two point conversions by Cal and Arizona away from a 7 game losing streak and not even bowl eligible. And that was after the 48-41 Colorado win. Does anyone in leadership have the guts to make the move before we set the program back another 5 years? Oregon, Washington, Michigan, Ohio State and even Penn State are light years ahead of SC.

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