From Pelon to the pylon, accelerating with each step. In doing so, it turned the Trojans loss to the Ducks from devastating to just irritating. “But we will have a, I guess, different plan or special plan for that reason because they’re going to try to get your signals and they probably have multiple guys assigned to try to get your signals”. Nobody’s using the word “rivalry”, but this has been the Pac-12’s most competitive November series in this decade with all four games decided by seven points or fewer. “I said, well, I scored”. Ucla Bruins rank at 25 for 287.3 road passing yards where as Southern Cal Trojans rank at 76 for allowing 226.0 passing yards at home.
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Spread: USC is favored by three points.
They wound up winning, 40-21, pounding their way into their first Pac-12 championship game next week against Stanford, a cement mixer of a team that USC imitated pretty well Saturday. “I am so proud and a little bit lost for words”.
In his first rivalry game at the Coliseum, Rosen threw for 227 yards and a touchdown and had his 245 pass streak without an interception broken, courtesy of former five-star recruit in Marshall. – USC Wide Receiver Darreus Rogers.
But that wasn’t the impressive part. The Bruins remained alive with last week’s gut check win over the Utes in Salt Lake City, answering a heartbreaking loss to Washington State the previous week. Of USC’s 20 snaps in that power-lifting exhibition, nineteen were runs. The junior tailback punched the ball in from one-yard out for his second score of the game. That’s with fourth-string center Nico Falah playing center, when third-string Khalel Rodgers wasn’t.
UCLA had its chances earlier.
“Obviously it’s not my decision what happens next year”, Kessler said. “We ready. Tell them we coming”.
October 17, 2015: Oregon’s Vernon Adams Jr against Washington.
Along the way, he kept rolling with the punches, trying to connect with the various personalities and expectations of each and every one of them while dealing with the drama of two coaches getting fired midseason, an interim head coach quitting before a bowl game and a two-time interim coach in Helton, who has been the one constant for Kessler. Those of a certain age and memory can verify that. “We’ll lick our wounds and come back stronger than ever”. “The more you get the ball in your hands, the better rhythm you get into”, Davis said. “That’s the way football is”.
“I just did my job”, Marshall said.
Helton has called his father “my hero”, but he also was exposed to coaches his father worked for, including Doug Dickey at Florida, Howard Schnellenberger at Miami and legendary USC coach John McKay with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. “In college football, it’s hard to govern everything”, said Mora, who would endorse “the same set of protocol throughout the country”.
During the game, and on the other coast, Virginia Tech announced it had hired Justin Fuente, who had coached Memphis into semi-prominence.
Helton began his coaching career by working as a graduate assistant under Fred Goldsmith at Duke.
But suddenly he seems overqualified. The Trojans have put together a strong campaign with Helton in charge, as they have gone 4-2 since Sarkisian’s firing.
Holiday Bowl: Utah. That dominating win over OR in Autzen looks good for bowl officials.
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Win or lose, Kim Helton said his son already has proved this: “There’s no question he’s a head coach”. “But at practice he’s spending a lot of time with the defense, too”. “That was the time of my life when I was watching football 24/7”. He’s just a great person.
