Total Offense: Cal 165 yards, USC 415 yards

USC held Cal about 237 yards below its season average up to this point in the season, and you cannot help but shake your head at the fact that USC had over 400 yards of offense. It doesn’t seem possible until…

Penalties: Cal 8 for 50 yards, USC 10 for 100 yards

You see that USC shot themselves in the foot repeatedly. It seemed like the refs were all over this game, and it seemed poorly officiated even to people in the stands. I even caught myself thinking “just let them play!” on a penalty called on Cal.

Fumbles: Cal 0, USC 4-1 lost

This is absolutely unacceptable and plays into the whole shooting yourself in the foot. those are four opportunities and plays that were completely wasted and instead went in the other teams favor. How is Sanchez going to make a play if he can’t hang on to the ball on third down? What good is having Stafon on punt return duty if he is going to bobble punts too?

I’ll post pics when I get the time tomorrow.

The wide receiver on the non-pressbox side was lined up incorrectly. I thought the call was illegal formation. But if you say the TV said it was lineman downfield, I didn’t see it.

If it wasn’t a lineman downfield, then it was illegal formation or illegal motion. The wide receiver and the tight-end were moving at the same time.

Yeah those refs got the roughing the passer call wrong but they also got the Patrick Turner catch wrong to. so i guess the universe balances itself out.

… I’ve said too much.

1) Get the quarterback
2) Don’t get the penalty for a late hit

They’re still working on the second prime directive.

. . . .(besides the fucla game) that Coach Carroll “gets up” for? It’s YOU GUYS AND COACH TEDFORD!

Something about you guys? Y’all play smart, intense, straight-up smash-mouth football with us. To be honest, I think your team outplays us for long stretches of our games dating back to the beginning of the Tedford//Carroll era. It’s insane Carroll’s teams have won more than Tedford’s teams in this young coaching rivalry.

So, a knock upside the helmet, a push after the whistle, a little smack talk about mamas and long-forgotten daddies? What’s wrong with all that? Brings spunk and spirit to the next play, is all.

And hey SoCal, nice game. That Alex Mack and Jordan or Cameron Cameron or Jordan whats-his-name (he’s a soph D lineman) ARE FREAKING FREAKS! They played heads up ball. What happened to Best? Syd’Quan played some good game too. Better luck next year. Oh, and BEAT OSU! PLEASSSSSSSSE! Beat the flock outta Oregon State! Gooooo Bears!

Are you kidding when you asked if USC purposely was trying to injure Riley? If you weren’t, then I guess my answer would be that USC probably teaches their defenders to aggressively go after the ball. Everson Griffin was rightly penalized for roughing Riley. Cushing hit Longshore with his hands and his penalty was no more than the QB being pushed to the ground.

 I believe that the defense is doing their best to shake up the quarterbacks. Griffin has been hitting QB’s late in more than one game this year, and has lost his starting job because of it. I don’t agree with you that there is a directive from USC coaches to purposely injure a player. There was a lot of agressive blitzing going on, and our guys were going hard for the QB, but no one was going for the knees or legs. I just think we were playing hard defense. With the exception of Griffins hit, I don’t see any validity to the accusation that the USC defense was doing anything but playing hard.