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Utah will take on USC in an interesting Pac-12 matchup in college football this weekend. It’s time to continue our College Football odds series and make a Utah-USC prediction and pick. Utah comes into play with a 2-2 record on the season, while USC is 3-2 and already on their second head coach of the […]

Jaxson Dart replaced an injured Kedon Slovis for the USC Trojans in Week 3 and ended up piecing together an eye-popping debut at quarterback. The USC freshman threw for 391 yards and four touchdowns in the win over Washington State and it led interim coach Donte Williams to speculate about an open competition for the […]

Following the firing of USC head coach Clay Helton after their Week 2 debacle to Stanford, the Trojans have been left trying to figure things out on the fly. That includes the starting quarterback position. Kedon Slovis left USC’s game against Washington State on Saturday with an apparent neck injury and freshman Jaxson Dart came […]

Before they even hit the field, it appears the post-Clay Helton era started off rocky. As the USC Trojans were heading to Pullman for their Saturday matchup with Washington State, the plane tipped backward as they landed. Take a look: USC just arrived in Pullman WA for their game with Wazzu. Here’s their plane… Half […]

The USC Trojans look to bounce back on the road after a significant loss against Stanford in Week 2, where the Trojans were 17-point favorites.  USC fell behind 21-10 at halftime and could not make up the gap in a 42-28 defeat. As for Washington State, they are coming off a 20-point win against Portland […]

Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy has been one of the top names brought up as next in line for a head coaching gig for a couple of years now. Most have assumed it would be in the NFL. With the University of Southern California firing Clay Helton after their Week 2 loss to […]

The Kansas City Chiefs have somehow held on to Eric Bieniemy for some time despite a ton of interest from NFL teams. But, the USC Trojans fired Clay Helton on Monday, and rumor has it that Bieniemy has emerged as a candidate for the vacant Trojans job, according to Adam Schefter of ESPN.  League sources […]

When the University of Southern California fired Clay Helton on Monday, it opened up the box for plenty of names to be rumored as the next coach. It’s a list that includes a lot of names, including Penn State coach James Franklin. Franklin’s name has popped up many times before and he addressed the latest […]

The USC Trojans are moving in a new direction after firing head coach Clay Helton. Helton was fired after the Trojans lost to Stanford 42-28. It was a long time coming. USC has not been a successful team in a few years. Now USC needs to shift its focus into finding a new head coach. They […]

Just two games into the new NCAA football season and we already have a major coaching change on the way. This comes in the form of the USC Trojans, who have just confirmed that head coach Clay Helton has been booted out of the program. This development the Trojans’ disastrous loss to Stanford on Sunday. […]

The football community lost another good one on Tuesday after former New England Patriots fullback Sam “Bam” Cunningham passed away in Inglewood, California. Cunningham is a member of the College Football Hall of Fame after starring for the University of Southern California (USC) in the early 70s. The cause of his death is still unknown. […]

Sam Cunningham, a USC Trojans legend and New England Patriots great, has died at the age of 71. The USC Football Twitter account put out this statement to confirm the death on Tuesday: #FightOnForever, Sam "Bam" Cunningham. The All-American fullback, Rose Bowl MVP and College Football Hall of Famer, whose performance in USC's 1970 win […]

Former USC running back Reggie Bush is determined to “expose” the leadership at the NCAA after it refused to revisit past penalties, thereby preventing Bush from getting his 2005 Heisman Trophy back — despite the Supreme Court NIL ruling that enables amateur athletes to now profit off their likeness. Earlier this month, the Heisman Trust […]

With all the new name, image and likeness rules being instituted for college athletes, it brought to mind some past instances that could be readdressed. None of those is more notable than former USC star Reggie Bush and his Heisman Trophy that he won in 2005 only to have it taken away. Reggie Bush has […]

Here’s a feel good story for you today — Kobe Bryant’s daughter, Natalia Bryant passed the freshman admissions of the University of Southern California (USC). On Tuesday, Vanessa Bryant posted a video on Instagram that captured the family celebrating Natalia’s success. It’s definitely heartwarming to see Natalia this happy—Congratulations are in her order for all […]

The disassociation of Reggie Bush to the USC Trojans is expected to come to an end soon after a decade, according a report by Kyle Bonagura of ESPN. The former second pick in the 2006 NFL draft was disassociated from the university when USC football was hit with major infractions by the NCAA. Due to […]

The Philadelphia Eagles are one of the few remaining teams in the NFL that have yet to hire an offensive coordinator. On Friday, Jeff McLane of the Philadelphia Inquirer reported that the Eagles interviewed USC’s Graham Harrell for their vacant offensive coordinator position. The Eagles somehow made the playoffs despite all of their injuries but […]

Right before the start of the NFL draft, one prospect’s draft stock could be taking a hit. USC linebacker Porter Gustin failed a drug test at the combine, according to Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. #USC LB Porter Gustin, a projected late-round pick, failed a PED drug test at the Combine, sources say. Per Gustin’s […]

Kliff Kingsbury’s tenure as the University of Southern California’s offensive coordinator did not last very long. After taking the position with the Trojans last month, Kingsbury is already moving on to the NFL. On Tuesday, he accepted the Arizona Cardinals’ head coaching job. But it wasn’t that easy for Kingsbury, however. At first, USC athletic […]

It’s not every day that an 18-year-old quarterback gets to throw to two Hall of Fame-caliber wide receivers. However, it just happened to be USC quarterback J.T. Daniels’ lucky day. Atlanta Falcons wide receiver Julio Jones has been busy both on and off the field this offseason. According to Brady McCollough of the Los Angeles Times, he was […]

Within the same hour that UCLA’s Josh Rosen declared for the 2018 NFL Draft, USC quarterback Sam Darnold did the same, announcing his decision on his Instagram account. https://www.instagram.com/p/BdgiGmsFoPX/?taken-by=samdarnold “After talking to my immediate family, very close friends and many people who have helped me throughout my life, I have made the decision to declare […]

The 2017 NFL regular season is coming to an end with the team heading toward Week 17. With the regular season ending, the attention turns to the playoffs for the league’s elite and the 2018 NFL Draft for teams that failed to live up to expectations with USC’s Sam Darnold potentially being the prized rookie […]

Week 8 of the college football season opened with a bang thanks to No. 10 Oklahoma State’s close 13-10 overtime victory over Texas. The day continued with several defensive wars, dominant performances by Penn State and Notre Dame, and close calls in the country’s top conferences. Here is a look at the highs and lows […]

In an attempt to avoid serious time in a federal prison, former USC Trojans linebacker Osa Masina plead guilty to three misdemeanor accounts of sexual assault. Osa Masina, who saw his case from prosecutors get amended by a judge, could still be sentenced to two to three years in a county jail and probation, according to The Salt Lake Tribune. The woman […]

USC Trojans quarterback Sam Darnold has come under a lot of scrutiny this season. For good reason too, as he entered the year with as much hype as any quarterback in the country. USC head coach Clay Helton probably knows this, but does not seem to care about feedback from his starting gunslinger. In response […]

The Washington State University Police Department is taking matters into its own hands, as it will investigate the incident that took place on the field at Martin Stadium between a USC football player and a Washington State student when fans began rushing the field. Using deductive reasoning, the player who apparently walloped a fan is lineman […]

Week 5 of the 2017 college football season began and ended with a bang in a weekend full of surprises. Here are the highs and lows of a fun weekend in the NCAA, especially for USC, LSU, Clemson, Georgia, and Tennessee: Highs 1. Clemson looks unstoppable The Clemson Tigers entered the 2017 season loaded with […]

Remember when USC Trojans quarterback Sam Darnold was considered all that and a bag of chips? Of course you do. His potential Heisman hype has been jammed down our throats for slightly less than a year at this point. About that potential to be one of the finalists in New York around the end of […]

There’s savvy shopping, then there’s taking a risk for a potential large payoff down the road. For a USC Trojans fan on Saturday, he fell somewhere in the middle. Although, if we’re being honest at the risk of being a jerk, there’s no real actual payoff to this. A fan was caught displaying a Sam […]

After helping the Los Angeles Rams take down the San Francisco 49ers in a rare thriller on a Thursday night NFL game, former California Golden Bears quarterback Jared Goff made an appearance on ESPN’s SportsCenter to talk about his performance. Goff passed for 292 yards and three touchdowns without an interception on 22 of 28 […]

Noted cheater of bicycle races Lance Armstrong is made at the USC Trojans on behalf of the Texas Longhorns. Yes. You read that correctly. Lance Armstrong angry at USC. It is due to the program’s tongue-in-cheek play with numbers leading into its game against Texas. This is all about the Trojans pretending the 2006 Rose […]

Los Angles has been blessed with two of the best quarterback prospects in the nation in USC’s Sam Darnold and UCLA’s Josh Rosen. As it sits right now, these young signal-callers will likely go number 1 and number 2 overall in 2018 NFL Draft, respectively. Are either of these quarterbacks worth tanking for?  Before we […]

The USC Trojans are embracing the petty. According to the school, it has never lost to the Texas Longhorns in football. “What about the 2006 Rose Bowl?” A smart reader might ask themselves. About that … Any college football fan worth his or her own salt (if age allows it) will certainly remember that time […]

Sam Darnold is back! I guess that means the following question should be about whether or not he’s elite, right? A week removed from not exactly looking like the touted Heisman Trophy candidate he is, Sam Darnold hurled the pigskin around the football field with relative ease on Saturday. The quarterback, who threw for four touchdowns […]

The Stanford Cardinal will face the USC Trojans on Saturday. This is a pretty big game, even if it is still incredibly early in the college football season. If you’re here, you want to know how you can watch this event through a stream or using your regular old TV schedule. Fair enough. Let’s get […]

Peter Carroll is known as a guy who really cares. You might not like everything about him, but he has a track record of going out of his way to help his players. For the Seattle Seahawks head coach, this was especially true when he was manning the helm for the USC Trojans. Apparently, time […]