Most teams in the Sun Belt have a hard time keeping the same coach for more than a couple years. The Troy Trojans haven’t had that trouble at all. Larry Blakeney is entering his 24th season with the program.
The No. 20 Fresno State Bulldogs and the No. 25 USC Trojans are slated to face off on Saturday, Dec. 21 in the Las Vegas Bowl. For Fresno State, it will try and prove that it can take down a talented team from a bigger conference following a relatively easy schedule.
Rivalry Week is at its finest when the USC Trojans and UCLA Bruins are both relevant, and that’s exactly what college football fans can look forward to entering Week 14.
The Stanford Cardinal are riding high after their 26-20 takedown of the No. 2 Oregon Ducks last weekend, but their Week 12 opponents have plenty of confidence themselves entering this matchup.
While their records look similar on the surface, the Louisiana-Lafayette Ragin’ Cajuns are 3-0 in Sun Belt play, with six consecutive wins overall, while the Troy Trojans are 3-2. As such, the Ragin’ Cajuns enter this contest as 12.5-point favorites.
The USC Trojans were underdogs heading into last week’s matchup with the Oregon State Beavers, but they came away victorious 31-14 on the road during a Friday night ESPN showing. This week, they’ll head back down to their native California, as they prepare to take on the struggling California Golden Bears.
The Oregon State Beavers are facing a short week between two tough games. Last week, they played the Stanford Cardinal down to the wire, while this week, they must prepare for an underachieving, yet always talented USC roster. The Trojans are coming off of a 19-3 win over the Utah Utes.
The latest chapter in the storied rivalry between the Notre Dame Fighting Irish and USC Trojans will be written on Saturday when the teams face off in South Bend. Notre Dame came out on top in last year’s meeting, but haven’t beaten USC at home since 2001, losing five in a row to the Trojans in South Beach.
Going back to last season Syracuse has lost 5 straight games and to avoid making it 6 in a row they will have to come up with a huge upset over USC.
USC heads into the season as the odds on favorite to win the BCS title and it not hard to see why with the great offense they have led by Heisman favorite QB Matt Barkley.
It is too bad this contest is not on the gridiron because I would like to have seen that. TCU has no real pedigree when it come to hoops and even though they have a solid record so far they haven’t beaten anybody and have a loss to Norfolk State.
Southern Cal had been dominating this match-up in recent seasons, until the Golden Domers exacted some revenge last season, pulling out a 20-16 victory.
A pair of teams looking to get back on the rails. The difference is only one’s season matters. But that won’t keep the Trojans from wanting to spoil the Wildcats’ chances of going bowling when they meet up in LA this weekend.
The NCAA sanctioned USC Trojans head out to Tempe for their first road test of the young season against the Arizona State Sun Devils who are looking to rebound from a disappointing road loss at Illinois just a week ago.
The College Football season may be 2-3 weeks away but our man Kyle Hunter has been deep in study and will provide his take and 2010 College Football Predictions on as many NCAA teams as he can before the 2010/11 season kicks off.
The College Football season may be 5-6 weeks away but our man James Hayes has been deep in study and will provide his take and 2010 College Football Predictions on as many NCAA teams as he can before the 2010/11 season kicks off.
