Darnold and Rosen's NFL stock remains high, but after
USC lost to Notre Dame and UCLA's implosion cost coach Jim Mora his job, the hype for their end - of - season meeting was decidedly muted.
As we mentioned earlier,
USC lost to Notre Dame on national television last week which may make this the ideal opportunity to buy low Trojans.
USC lost, but Tommie Smith won — the movie camera for the 200, the Polaroid camera for the relay, the trophy for being the meet's outstanding athlete and a restored pride.
USC lost to Memphis to start a crippling 3 - 8 season in 1991, and the boosters turned on him after that.
It was lightning in a bottle, however; ranked first to start 2012 (of course),
USC lost to Stanford early, then dropped five of six to finish the season.
USC lost three of its first four games this season, then won its last nine and capped the year with a Rose Bowl thriller against Penn State.
Only NIU covered the spread out of the five and
USC lost outright as an 18 - point favorite.
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USC lost by 3 points on the road to an undefeated Wash..
Meanwhile,
USC lost only at Kansas State and Washington State by a combined 10 points and looked spectacular late, but technically Wazzu, with only losses to Ohio State and Washington, was the conference champion.
I mean,
USC lost by 3 @Wash St. on a Friday nite w / half our OLine out injured & we dropped NINE (9) spots.
In 2013, Kiffin's
USC lost 62 - 41 at Arizona State, and he got fired at the airport.
Following the firing of head coach Steve Sarkisian,
USC lost their second big - time 2016 commit in linebacker Mique Juarez (four - star Daelin...
Cincinnati fell before Bradley,
USC lost to Washi...
Following the firing of head coach Steve Sarkisian,
USC lost their second big - time 2016 commit in linebacker Mique Juarez (four - star Daelin Hayes decommitted from the Trojans earlier this week).
Oops, Playoff hopeful
USC loses at Washington State with a banged - up offensive line on a short - week road trip during a 12 - week stretch without a bye.
I had
USC losing to Wazzu anyway, so I would've kept the Trojans in this group, but they're banged - up and don't have a bye for a long time, so Michigan slides up.
In fact, only four teams are exceeding their projections at the moment, and there have been disappointing losses even within that group (
USC losing to Stanford, Stanford losing to Northwestern).
Not exact matches
Four ranked teams
lost in Week 3 (last week's composite No. 4 Georgia, No. 9
USC, No. 17 Virginia Tech, and No. 20 Louisville), hence the major shakeups this time around.
The only two games with ranked teams
losing: Penn State rolled over Michigan in white - out conditions, and Notre Dame looks like a legitimate Playoff team after destroying
USC.
But that third year, 2007, he won nine and reached the Rose Bowl, where Illinois
lost to final No. 3
USC.
Schembechler's Wolverines
lost their first, third, and fifth Rose Bowls to
USC, all by one possession.
USC beat UCLA 91 - 71,
lost to the Bruins 72 - 70, but was picked for the NCAA; Oregon got the same reward after splitting a pair with Oregon State, 45 - 53 and 67 - 63.
Despite
losing three of their first four games,
USC is listed as a double - digit favorite against an undefeated divisional rival.
On five separate occasions, demonstrably superior
USC teams have
lost to UCLA, often with a conference or national title on the line: 1992 (to a walk - on fifth string quarterback), 1994 (with the Rose Bowl possibly on the line), 1995, 2006 (with a national title shot on the line), and 2012 (with a spot in the first Pac - 12 title game at stake).
They need to beat Utah and Washington State, have Stanford
lose to Cal, and beat
USC to finish with anything close to a Playoff résumé.
Beat MD soundly to start the season... same for Tulsa... win at home two hard games to
USC and TCU (we might
lose the TCU game after an excessive high from
USC, if we
lose to TCU we bounce back and beat K St, if we beat TCU we read or press clipping an get a L handed to us in Manhattan)... we
lose to OU, ugh, I hope I am wrong... and then finish strong with close games at Stillwater and Lubbock that are W's... and lay the wood to Baylor, ISU and put up a huge payback whomping on KU Thanksgiving weekend in Lawrence (which seems odd for UT to play outside of Texas that weekend.)
But they have now missed out on two opportunities for big wins (they
lost to Georgia in September and got rocked by Miami last week), and «We beat
USC and only
lost by 33 to Miami!»
USC went to Utah, outgained the Utes, and
lost by three on a touchdown pass with eight seconds remaining.
The season was bittersweet because of the way it began; the Utes got to third in the polls with a 6 - 0 start and wins over Michigan and Oregon before
losing to
USC, then succumbing to injuries and
losing to Arizona and UCLA as well.
USC has been up - and - down in Steve Sarkisian's first year — win at Stanford,
lose to Boston College;
lose at home to Arizona State, beat Arizona on the road, get thumped by rival UCLA, destroy rival Notre Dame.
Himself a candidate for governor of California in 1962 (he
lost in a primary to Richard Nixon), Shell worked this year as the state's finance chairman for the Goldwater presidential campaign and ran interference for the GOP just as resolutely as he did when he was captain and a valuable blocking back for the undefeated
USC team that shut out Tennessee 14 - 0 in the 1940 Rose Bowl game.
After one of the zaniest opening months ever, Washington emerged, then
lost at No. 14
USC.
The
USC Trojans, fell completely out of the rankings for the first time this season after
losing to the UCLA Bruins, 38 - 28, on Saturday.
Since then State has won two more championships, and last season at the NCAA tournament it firmly proved the new status of Southwest basketball by beating Seattle and
USC before finally
losing to Utah.
USC missed a shot but got an offensive rebound and deep putback to
lose 82 - 78 at the buzzer, giving them the cover.
At halftime, they trailed
USC 24 - 6 and trailed Stanford 38 - 13 and
lost each game by 25.
USC will
lose abother 3 games next year... they are Sam Darnold and NOTHING else!
«We beat Cal 24 - 0, San Diego beat us 25 - 0, Cal beat Washington 24 - 20 and Washington only
lost by three to
USC.
USC hasn't
lost to Cal since 2003, and the Trojans will hope to continue their dominance against their in - state rivals as they look to bounce back from last Saturday's loss to Stanford.
Cal has to improve defensively if it wants to keep the
losing streak to
USC from reaching nine games this Saturday.
USC went 23 - 11 this season and made it to the Pac - 12 title game before
losing to Arizona.
Oregon, which
lost only to
USC?
The Bruins covered +14 but
lost 28 - 23 vs.
USC on Saturday, and Mora went 36 - 40 ATS in his time at the school.
HERITAGE - BRENTWOOD (20 - 4) Despite
losing USC - bound pitcher Austin Manning to a transfer, the Patriots roster has never been deeper.
Since
USC has
lost to Stanford every year since 2009, we decided to fire up our Bet Labs software and see just how well the team rebounded following those losses.
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USC took a major hit to their title chances,
losing at Boston College.
Does the committee go with Urban Meyer's Utes, or, since no mid-major has yet been included, do they favor a Texas that
lost only to Oklahoma (by 12 points in Dallas) or a Cal that
lost only to
USC (by six points in Los Angeles)?
And after some first - year struggles (
USC was inexplicably ranked 18th in the preseason but
lost to five ranked teams and finished 8 - 5), it looked like Robinson might indeed get the job done.
In 1997, they were once again ranked in the preseason — of the last 11 times that
USC has finished a season unranked, the Trojans have been ranked in the preseason the next year eight times — but began the season 0 - 2, got whipped at Arizona State and No. 7 Washington and
lost by seven to unranked UCLA to finish 6 - 5.
USC beat No. 13 Oklahoma in 1992, barely
lost at No. 1 Washington, and got to 5 -1-1 and 11th in the country, but the Trojans
lost four of five to finish the season and
lost tight battles to both UCLA and Notre Dame, and Smith resigned.