Home-and-Home with Minnesota
by Paragon SC on Jan 23, 2009 6:20 PM PST
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PrintUSC has scheduled a home-and-home with the University of Minnesota in 2010 & 2011
USC has announced a home-and-home football series with Minnesota. The first game will be played on Sept. 18, 2010, in TCF Bank Stadium, the new home of the Golden Gophers as of this fall. The teams will play in the Los Angeles Coliseum on Sept. 3, 2011.
Minnesota features Tim Brewster's run-based spread offense, which will probably still be popular when it meets USC in a year and a half. The schools haven't faced each other since 1980, when USC won, 24-7, at Minnesota. Overall the Trojans lead the series, 4-1-1, with the loss coming in the snow in 1955.
This should be a fun series though I would have loved a shot at a Big-12 or SEC team but none of the big programs didn't take the bait.
Now that I had some time digest the home-and-home series with Minnesota, could USC have scheduled a series with a more maligned conference than the Big Ten? How does this help for BCS purposes?
Frankly, I'd be more impressed if they scheduled UConn?
Here's a few others better than Minnesota: North Carolina. Ole Miss. Vanderbilt. Kentucky.
Heck, I would have loved UConn...I mean its just up the road from me but that is not a sexy enough game.
At least it isn't some crapppy FCS school...
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If these games were played next year I'd agree with Wolf
The Big 10 has such a bad reputation nationwide, that any win over a team from the conference is looked down upon; however, conference strength is cyclical and in a couple years the conference may be much improved.
by Ryan Rosenblatt on Jan 23, 2009 6:36 PM PST reply actions
and Oregon cheerleaders...
although, admittedly, the one for the cheerleaders is a lot more justified in my mind :-)
Sorry, I’m a dirty-minded individual. Please feel free to delete this comment if it offends…
Wolf
His MO has always been to be as inflammatory as possible and I think it has almost devolved into self-parody. He writes such incredibly contrarian and anti-SC pieces that I get the feeling that now its just about riling up the fans and getting more page views. The real kicker is that the fans that profess such hatred for him are the ones that keep him in business. For other former SC grads who like to be amazingly negative and trash their former school read some of Arash Markazi’s work.
by Laughing Stock on Jan 23, 2009 10:00 PM PST up reply actions
FWIW
I think I read elsewhere that the Gophers were dumping the spread after last season where they posted one of the worst run totals in school history. I think they want to go back to the more power oriented running they had with Barber and the like.
You know what? Fuck you Sports Gods, fuck you.
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