USC named its captains for the 2020 season: Kedon Slovis, Isaiah Pola-Mao, Amon-Ra St. Brown and Alijah Vera-Tucker. So that’s three offensive players and one defensive player. Continue reading USC Names Team Captains

The Pac-12 season hasn’t even started and a game is getting canceled. The Cal-Washington game on Saturday is canceled “due to Cal not having the minimum number of scholarship players available for the game as a result of a positive football student-athlete COVID-19 case and resulting isolation of additional football student-athletes under contact tracing protocols.” Why did I always think if a game would be … Continue reading Cal-Washington Game Canceled

Clay Helton said Drake Jackson (hamstring), Vavae Malepeai (hamstring), Markese Stepp (foot) and Kana’i Mauga (hamstring) will be available against Arizona State. It might rain Saturday so Helton said USC will practice with wet footballs. Kedon Slovis, Amon-ra St. Brown, Tyler Vaughns, Alijah Vera-Tucker, Drake Jackson, and Talanoa Hufanga are first-team picks on the preseason All-Pac-12 team. Ben Griffiths was named to the second team. … Continue reading The USC Daily: Healthy Outlook For Arizona State Game

Fox Sports won’t get to promote having Reggie Bush and Matt Leinart at the USC-Arizona State game. Or Urban Meyer. Or Brady Quinn. Or host Rob Stone. The entire broadcast team is sidelined because of COVID-19 quarantine protocols, according to the New York Post. Terry Bradshaw, Howie Long, Emmanuel Acho and Charissa Thompson will replace the regular team and be in a studio instead of … Continue reading Thursday Reader Forum: No Matt Leinart/Reggie Bush At USC Game

A reader complained to me today that just two of USC’s six games have kickoff times, making it hard to make plans. At least not everything has changed in 2020! USC is going to livestream its pre-game show at 7 a.m. on its social media accounts, which will include a look a team warmups, the band, song girls and cheerleaders. Will the band be allowed … Continue reading Do USC Kickoff Times Frustrate You?

The over/under for USC is 5.5 based on the seven-game season that all Pac-12 teams will play. I really think USC can go 7-0 based on its easy schedule. I also think Clay Helton can screw up a game or two. So 5.5 can be a bit of a dilemma. It means USC cannot mess up in the Pac-12 and then must beat Oregon in … Continue reading USC Over/Under Win Total Is Interesting