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USC-Iowa Live Blog

It’s over and USC dodges a trap game before facing Oregon in the big one on Saturday.

And the Trojans take the lead, 26-21, a 16-0 run in the second half.

USC cuts lead to 21-19.

Did you know it is boiling at the Coliseum?

Iowa is carving up USC’s defense. USC can’t defend an offense that can run and pass.

The offense finally wakes up as Bryan Jackson scores on a 1-yard run out of the Wildcat.

USC’s defense getting exposed by a currently two-dimensional offense.

Shocking series for USC offensive line. Can’t protect QB or get a yard on fourth down.

Well, Iowa’s offense can pass the ball! Against the USC defense, of course.

Crowd check.

It’s a wet Homecoming at USC but that hasn’t stopped the alumni band or cheer groups.

The donor tailgate was less crowded, however.

90 thoughts on “USC-Iowa Live Blog”

  1. Word is that Waymo Jordan is a POSSIBLE to play! Which means he may be totally good to go for the quacks!

    Hats off to USC’s foot and ankle surgeons!

    Trojans 24, Iowans 16

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      3. At 28-24 Iowa, I wasn’t either. Just the wrong way.

        But as I usually tell Guarino, “I hope I’m wrong, but…”

        My guess are always based on what I think will happen, not what I hope will happen. So glad to be wrong on this one!

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    2. No one ever had to worry about that, Ed. She’s just a keyboard warrior. That’s why she throws out “Barstow” to back it up.

      No one is driving all the way there, only for her not to show up. She knows that she’s safe making such a ridiculous suggestion.

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      1. KAM: Especially since she is a Bag lady who lives in a dumpster on 6th and Grand Avenue in down town LA.

        DON: She is too cowardly to show up in Pasadena and have Plow Horse pummel her into submission.

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  3. Ed knows that isn’t true. Everyone loves his posts!

    Her post does, however, describe all of HER posts! As usual, accusing others of what she is guilty.

    More crying & lying in 3, 2, 1…

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  4. wolfmnan, we both know this is gonna be a smashmouth affair, and we also know this hollywood trOXan team is built for a 7 Man league! uh-oh! Spaghetti-O!!!!

    my prediction: PAAAAAAAAAIN!!!

    #IPityTheFool!!

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      2. KAM: The Cadre has the sads- Ohio Sate just annihilated  Brain dead Vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky and Susan’s Bruins!

        DON: And Cowardly Gabby’s Bruins lots to the Mildcats in basketball! She will go on a spamathon to medicate her pain.

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    1. KAM: “We”???

      DON: You live in a dumpster on 6th and Grand Avenue,  Brain dead Vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky and Susan and Psycho.

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  6. Stinkin (Charles Nelson) Riley … USC is barely second rate … why does everyone but USC get that you move on from a failed head coach before they run your program into nearly impossible to recover from territory?

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      1. ’67 – never left, just went into listening mode … and unfortunately, during that time, the second coming of John McKay or Pete has not ridden to the rescue (to include the foregoing of the one opportunity they had but eschewed in favor of Stinkin) …

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      3. Same to you my friend … back in the (not so) glory days recall we used to occasionally insert song lyrics to provide a soundtrack of sorts … your comment makes me think of many a “Waiting” song (eg ranging from NIN “Down In It” to the Stones “Waiting On A Friend”) …

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    1. KAM” “We”?

      DON: You are  Brain dead Vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky and Susan and Psycho. You are an interloper who comes here to destroy the bog and persecute the posters. Go away you pest!

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  17. where are all those dudes complaining about big 10 officiating picking on poor sc? Maybe it makes a difference maybe it doesn’t. But 2 missed obvious face masks (both would have extended second half drives approaching the red zone) pulling a late hit call on the last drive (not blatant but definitely a violation) and a game ending personal foul from a yelling sideline assistant. Fortunate to get a deflection off a knee to get a pick and LR acts as if I beat Ohio state at the horseshoe.

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    2. This isn’t meant as a knock — but they’re are more non-calls going on in a game than the ones pointed out by Yogi Roth.

      Watch the game carefully. Don’t depend on the announcers to tell you what’s going on in terms of non calls. It’s not their job.

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      1. I do Mike but PI and perimeter holding and even internal line holding is going on every play on both sides. It is the timing of when they decide to call it. There are stretches where there is PI or holding every time the ball goes in the air no matter who has the ball or even both the defender and the receiver. the new thing is now grabbing the corner as the ball is coming in and pulling him into you as the receiver to get the call. Like pulling a dude into you to draw the charge. drives will go by with no calls either way, then the ball will go in the air on 5 consecutive plays. Flag, flag, flag, flag, flag. all on the defense. Meanwhile half the time the reciever is pushing off or grabbing the dude and pulling him in and gets the call “cause his back is turned”. They need to reconfigure these rules cause this is boring football. The offense is already at a major advantage and now find ways to not even try to make a catch and will get an auto 15 every down or be left open for an easy catch. Boring

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      2. Btw, I know Yogi, I used to work with him. Real nice guy… but lets face it. He’s a real homer. Not a Homer like homer simpson, but like a real sc honk, and that’s ok but he is the only one carrying the former pac 12 in the big 10 torch as well as the SC torch. Thats fine but he also fawns all over LR. Pretty obvious.

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  19. The season now hinges on next week’s game in Autzen. While I was pleased to get the win against Iowa, in the rain no less, it was very much a home game. This team has been very different on the road this season, and not in a good way. It will take a different and mentally fortified mindset that seeks out and confronts adversity that I am not sure LR has the capability to render at this point. He actually might need to sit down and carefully watch the Indiana at Oregon game film, and perhaps even last week’s game that Iowa almost held on to win, to learn how to position the team and scheme for this one. Oregon has a defense and plenty of offensive talent to challenge what has been our own slow starting version. And remembering that LR tends to give up around 20 points on the road versus in the friendly confines of the Coliseum, we are left with a sobering conclusion. Do we have the talent on both sides of the ball to win against Oregon? Absolutely yes. Do we have the coaching acumen, discipline, and toughness to play and win in that hostile and noise filled raucous Eugene environment against Oregon? It appears we may already know that answer. The score will be 38-24. Any other prognostication would be welcomed and appreciated…

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    1. Hard to know just how good the quacks are. They lost to Penn State and Indiana, barely beat Iowa, didn’t look impressive versus Wisconsin.

      If you go by the common opponents (Iowa and Northwestern), the USC and Oregon are not so different.

      Three concerns for me are:

      Road game, as you pointed out. USC’s best road performance (Nebraska) will not win this game.

      On the bright side, the team seems to be coming together

      USC’s O-line. They were deficient in the first half, they were dominant in the second half. What gives with that?

      USC’s D-line. Again, they were deficient in the first half, they were dominant in the second half.

      If USC’s O-line holds their own, meaning they can open holes such that 90% of the run plays get 3 yards, and they can give Jaden 3 seconds, then Makai and Jakobi are so good that USC can score 30 or more.

      If the D-line can get some pressure on Moore and not get blown off the line to give up 7 plus yards rushing, then they can hold Oregon to under 30.

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  20. KAM: Ruh Roh

    DON:

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    BREAKING: The NBA is now asking for the phones and emails of at least 10 Los Angles Lakers employees, including two of LeBron James associates, as part of its investigation into illegal sports gambling per NYT.

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  21. KAM: Let’s not get overly giddy about that Iowa game because the Hawkeyes came within a toe on the line from winning. At the 5-yard line they certainly would have punched the ball into the end zone and left SC with not enough time to counter

    DON: Both SC and Iowa could lay claim to victory. It is another example of sports ‘Win-Lose Illusion’

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    1. KAM: Michelle Obama Claims Black People Can’t Swim ‘Because We’re Trying to Keep Our Hair Straight’ for White People

      DON: She is a product of Affirmative action: an entitled, obsessed racist.

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    1. KAM: Amazing. A 250 year-old democracy has still not reached Michelle Obama’s lofty personal standards. Michelle Obama says she’s not making a run at the White House “until the country grows up a bit.”

      DON: We continue to disappoint her:

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      1. She’s talking about your childish behavior……the really lame kam vs don rants…….which have become super stale…just saying

        I threw some bait out for so cal…….wait!

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      2. KAM: You mean your sick evil behavior where you are actually stalking and doxxing a poster here,  brain dead Vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky and Susan and Psycho?

        Gabby

        November 14 2025 at 8:47 pm

        Hokulani Golf Villas Community

        (I got my eyes on you)

        DON: You are a danger to society and should be arrested and incarcerated at Atascadero State Mental Hospital the rest of your miserable life.

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      3. JOE: You are a danger to society and should be arrested and incarcerated at Atascadero State Mental Hospital the rest of your miserable life.

        KAM: Looks like scott is paranoid.

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      4. KAM: Hee Hee, Cowardly Gabby still won’t admit Biden is senile!!!!!!!!!!!!

        DON: What a fulll mooner loon you are,   Brain dead Vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky and Susan and Psycho.

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      1. The officiating just plain sucks on both sides. There is so much holding (grabbing the shirt), but Jakobi Lane gets called for that on that reception and run by Makai, turns a 30 yard play into an 8 yard play. There is so much PI on Makai, including the one in the end zone that was incomplete. There was King Miller who was down, the whistle blew, he got up to run and the Iowa defender totally threw him to the ground. No whistle.

        If USC plays well, meaning their O-lines and D-lines are at their best, then I see them competitive with anyone outside the top 7 teams.

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      3. Michael, I wrote similarly to Trojanation above.

        If only they could the “second half team” in the first half…

        First and second half differences:

        Second half total offense was around 240 yards, first half was around 120 yards.

        Second half total defense was around 140 yards, first half total defense was around 210 yards.

        Jaden looked so much more confident in the second half, he hung in against the rush and threw some darts to Makai and Jakobi.

        I suspect the TEs will play a bigger role in the passing game on Saturday.

        And let’s hope Waymo is back!

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      4. Ya know what I think, 67? Even if Jordan is ready to go I’d start King Miller …and only go to Jordan if Oregon is stopping Miller. I like the chemistry when the Miller Brothers are in there together.

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      6. “If USC plays well, meaning their O-lines and D-lines are at their best, . . . “

        That is true 67 but of course that is true with every team in every football game. I think Oregon has a complete team. Very good at the line and with skill players and their quarterback is good. They probably have a talent advantage over us. I think we are going to need to score a lot of points to beat them. And probably get some big turnovers.

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      9. Plowhorse, agree totally. My point is that the USC O-lines and D-lines are incredibly inconsistent – they are either dominated, or they dominate.

        Iowa is regarded as having a top 5 O-line, so the fact that USC D-line came together in the second half is encouraging.

        At least for me, it is hard to know how good Oregon is. Last year, they looked like they could be the best, and then they were totally blown out by OSU.

        I will not be so surprised if USC loses by 17. And I will be only a little surprised if USC wins. It seems impossible to predict how well USC’s lines will play.

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      10. Plow –I think you put your finger on the subtext — we know that Oregon has the [slight] advantage ….we’re just saying our best can play ball against their best….anything less from us is going to be unpleasant….

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  23. KAM:

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    HOLY SMOKES! The success of Donald Trump’s border in one image.https://x.com/EricLDaugh/status/1989755456315674857?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1989920587846930925%7Ctwgr%5E89c68cc72b12e2db65bb6b816bd5bf5b82c2967b%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F756267%2FMigrant crossings at the insanely dangerous Darien Gap:

    2022: 248,284

    2023: 520,085

    2024: 302,203

    2025: 2,941 (!!!)

    It’s a decline of nearly 100%. The Gap is located between Colombia and Panama; it’s a dangerous path taken by illegals desperate to come to America. Trump is saving lives —

    DON: …and our sovereignty.

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    1. …..and on the other side of his mouth he said the US workforce has no talent.

      WHAT HAPPENED TO HIS CONSTANT RANTS- “AMERICA FIRST”

      ….according to trump America first is not getting the job done. It’s obvious why his approval rating is the worst in modern history

      Baaaaammmmm…..crotch////kick!!!!

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      1. KAM: Cowardly Gabby has the blues, her Bruins were humiliated and the Democrats surrendered !

        DON: She needs to seek help, all her heroes have let her down!

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      2. …the worst part: She has let herself down….

        #Actually,That’sNotTheWorstPart…

        #SheHasLetScottDown….

        #[UtterlyUnforgiveable]

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    2. There is an interesting documentary by Bret Weinstein on how the Chinese government had set up stations for their soldiers along the Darian pass en route to the U.S.

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    1. KAM: More bad news for Cowardly Gabby in her very bad week:“¡Viva la Revolución! Massive Riot Explodes in Mexico City as THOUSANDS of Furious Young Protesters Fed Up with Cartel-Coddling Leftist President STORM Presidential Palace, Leaving Over 100 Injured!https://x.com/Julio_Rosas11/status/1989809544470696265?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1989809544470696265%7Ctwgr%5E137c1be83ea70f8ac9a8326c066dfd0bd7704712%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F11%2Fviva-la-revolucion-massive-riot-explodes-mexico-city%2F…

      DON: These young Mexican patriots were fed up with not only the rampant crime and corruption that have long plagued Mexico, but also Cowardly Gabby’s favorite leftist President Claudia Sheinbaum’s coddling of drug cartel members.

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      1. Claudia knows she’s a dead woman if she lifts a finger against the drug cartels by herself….Trump offered to help her but she was too scared to accept his help…

        #CarolFoltOnANationalLevel

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  25. KAM: Therapist of chronic TDS suffering Cowardly Gabby tells her that part of her therapy is exposure: she needs to spend time around a Trump supporter until her anxiety wears off. She must date a Trump supporter to be cured of her disease.

    DON: Hilarity ensues!

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