But the unbeaten Tigers might have gotten a little help from the officials, too. He likely won’t win it, on account of Alabama running back Derrick Henry’s bruising consistency and/or DeShaun Watson’s steady dominance, but nobody else in college football is like McCaffrey. I can see the Crimson Tide scoring more than 24. Kickoff is scheduled for 7:45 p.m. ET in Santa Clara, Calif.
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Wilcox and the Trojans’ defense allowed one player to put on a highlight reel while breaking records, in Stanford’s Christian McCaffrey.
The only thing McCaffrey couldn’t pull off was an upset in one of the other conference championship games that could have sent the Cardinal to the playoff.
USC football has a tremendous opportunity in the PAC-12 championship game this Saturday that may successfully lead to a new era of Trojan football under new head coach Clay Helton. Look for recently crowned Pac-12 coach of the year David Shaw to make the necessary adjustments to guide his Stanford team to victory.
“There is nobody in the nation doing what he’s doing. It’s not even a debate”. The Cardinal’s “wildcat” play began the second with McCaffrey’s 11-yard touchdown pass to Hogan extending their lead 10-0. “If (the Rose Bowl) is the consolation prize, what a deal for both of us”. “We’re not in charge of that. We’ll go down to Pasadena and have a great time”.
“I reminded them in that locker room just to remember what this pain feels like, because it’s our goal next year to be right back here next year, and I want them to remember how bad this hurts”, Helton said. Among the coaches retained by USC are tight ends and quarterbacks coach Marques Tuiasosopo, who also followed Sarkisian from Washington, and receivers coach Tee Martin, a standout recruiter and fellow Kiffin holdover. After blowing an early 13-point lead, the Cardinal faced a third-down in their own territory.
On the season, the USC Trojans average 280.7 yards in passing and 176.7 yards in rushing.
“When I saw it on the ground, I screamed, ‘Get it!’ That was wonderful”, Martinez said.
“More than in the past, it will be an older-school USC-Stanford game”. The sophomore closed the night with 32 carries for 207 yards and a touchdown, four receptions for 105 yards and a touchdown, an 11-yard touchdown pass, five kickoff returns for 120 yards, two punt returns for 29 yards and, if the voters do their jobs correctly, a plane ticket to NY for the Heisman Trophy ceremony.
With a two-yard gain in the second quarter, McCaffrey surpassed the record set by Sanders at Oklahoma State in 1988.
A lot has changed since USC played Stanford in Week 3. “He got to the inside and took it down to the red zone”. LeMichael James previously held he record with 288 yards. “I can’t talk enough about the O-line and the holes, especially in the first half”.
Zurek rushed 21 times for 72 yards and quarterback Connor Rice was 9 of 26 for 92 yards for Wabash (12-1), which got nine solo tackles from Austin Brown.
That’s when the McCaffrey Show, spectacular in the first half, picked up where it left off.
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McCaffrey even beat USC throwing the ball.
