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Morning Buzz: USC Actually Pretty Shocking In Big Ten

Some people cannot resist patting Lincoln Riley on the back for winning a game.

Why?

His team hasn’t really improved throughout the season, playing at the same level with only the competency of the opponent determining if USC wins or loses.

After watching Wisconsin, Nebraska and UCLA play USC, was there much difference between those teams? All extremely limited offensively. You want to talk about the rough, tough Big Ten, I didn’t see it in those games.

Those teams are a combined 15-18 this season.

USC has not beaten any team in the top 10 of the Big Ten standings. The highest-rated team it beat was Nebraska, who is 11th.

Did you know Maryland is 1-7 with its only conference victory against USC?

The schedule was actually pretty easy. USC didn’t even play five of the top six teams in the Big Ten standings.

But we only lost games by one play! Great job Riley!

THE RUMOR MILL

Dan Lanning to the NFL. Kenny Dillingham to Oregon. That’s a rumor I heard this weekend from an Oregon assistant, which means others are also talking about it.

TALE OF TWO ATTENDANCES

USC-Grambling State men’s basketball drew 3,068 on Sunday night at the Galen Center. The USC-Notre Dame women’s basketball game Saturday drew 7,894 at the Galen Center.

There are still several tomato cans on the men’s basketball nonconference schedule at the Galen Center, so maybe less than 3,000 will attend a game.

VIDEO OF THE DAY

I need to have videos more than just Fridays so here is Joe Walsh singing “In the City” which is on the soundtrack of the 1979 classic, “The Warriors.” This video is a great montage of the film.

17 thoughts on “Morning Buzz: USC Actually Pretty Shocking In Big Ten”

  1. USC has declined over the season. There is no way that Saturday’s team could have defeated LSU or gone to overtime with Penn State. To paraphrase Riley, ucla was one play away from victory on saturday night.

    Hope they can figure it out for the domers, who average generating 2.5 TOs per game.

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      1. Well, there is the prima donna known as “bear” who refused to play, so that is one less D-line guy. WR is deep, but many aren’t targeted. O-line is very thin, and will be worse next year. ucla’s LT, who managed to hold the entire game and was never called, never played football in HS, and ucla’s qb had tons of time to throw most of the game, he was never hit from the blind side.

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    1. Keep trying. Don’t type a player’s name, use his initials or “current qb”, “previous qb”, etc. At some point you will break through the censor.

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  3. Men’s water polo beat #1 ucla to make it to the tourney, the women’s soccer team is in the semi’s against Wake Forest, so some sports are doing well

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      1. People watch them, just not like football and basketball. I want SC to be good in EVERY sport, not just one.

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      2. I come from the era where USC dominated in football and was always building towards Rose Bowls and national championships and the other minor sports also did well. I didn’t ever dream USC football would be unranked going into the ND game with no hope in sight for next season and I would have to look at women’s soccer for a crumb of good news.

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  4. Jackson was a late commit to SC. Said he loved SC, felt he belonged in LA and was shutting it down. Oh well. And Florida is struggling in the SEC. Didn’t decommit due to the poor record.

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