-M.A.
Now we get to wonder about the injury status of our one truly explosive offensive player, All American WR Dwayne Jarrett, after he left the game early in the 3rd quarter (never to return) with a shoulder injury. This, on top of seeing our third string FB go down, again, early in the 3rd quarter. Yep, USC is now working on their 4th string FB.
Any of you fuckers have any college eligibility left?? If so, you might wanna hoof it down to South Central and see if maybe you can't gravy train yourself a BCS game appearance.
Apparently playing FB for USC this season is akin to being Spinal Tap's drummer. All we need is some spontaneous combustion there in the huddle and it'll be a wrap.
Emmanuel Moody might be the guy to at least lock up the tailback position. I hate the idea of a true freshman taking over that spot. That's going to bite us in the ass somewhere. I wish Chauncey Washington could've grabbed it and made it his. Nope. Dude's just a plowhorse, a serviceable short yardage back, and little else.
Moody's the break away threat we sorely need.
Guess we're just going to have to count on some SEC style play (let the speedy and maniacal defense dominate and hope the offense makes just enough big plays before self imploding) to carry us until the offense finally begins to gel.
Pretty fugly 17 point road win. The offense is being ultra conservative so far. Very few deep balls (nice grab there, Jackson...

Also, I can't decide whether I'm enjoying it or getting a bit tired of it, this notion that every road game we play anymore becomes the home team's Super Bowl.
"Fourth largest attendance EVER..."
"Most highly anticipated regular season game in twenty years!"
Jesus fuck. This is a big game? Again? Really?
Whatever. Gotta take this one though and move on.
Talent and potential alone do not yet make USC deserve a #2 or #3 ranking. USC would not score enough to keep pace with OSU, definitely, and probably not Auburn either, not yet.
Then again, looking around the current watered down college football landscape, maybe they do deserve a #3 ranking. Maybe that's just about exactly where they are right now: probably couldn't beat OSU or Auburn right now on a neutral field, but there's nobody else out there who's any better than them.
Florida? W. Virginia?
This is not just a down year in the Big 12. It's a down year in the ACC, Big 10 and Pac 10. Really, even the SEC hasn't looked that great either. Basically, this is just a down year for college football, period.
One other aside...
Michigan State's Liberian RB looks like the Kelley Green reincarnation of Robert Newhouse. Man, that guy's thighs and gibundous ass are just ridiculous. Even Serena Williams was overheard saying she thinks that dude's lower body looks a little too ghetto.
OSU just needs to get through Iowa and Michigan and that's all that's standing now between an OSU-Auburn BCS title game. Nobody in the SEC looks able to take down Auburn, once they escaped with their win over LSU...
Lastly...
USC's Song Girls. Somehow they seem to be getting even hotter as the season progresses. Either the camera men are focusing now only on the truly painfully hot ones or somehow USC managed to swap out some of the B+ hotties I saw in the preseason calender. It seems that it's now pretty much nothing but Vegas showgirls, Hawaiian Tropics bikini models and soap opera ingenues. Perfect golden glowing attention whores, all up and down the line up. Yow.