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re: I just heard David Carr say that Pete Carroll's USC teams used to always whip the SEC
Posted on 11/30/21 at 1:58 pm to loweralabamatrojan
Posted on 11/30/21 at 1:58 pm to loweralabamatrojan
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This is fair and factual. The maddening thing about Carrol’s SC teams is that his teams would play down to the level of the competition. The Stanford (2007?) and Oregon State (2008?) losses were atrocious.
I remember being on Twitter following Houston journalists who had covered Jacquizz Rodgers in high school going crazy about what he was doing as a true freshman against the #1 team.
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Posted on 11/30/21 at 2:05 pm to grizzlylongcut
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In fact, I remember USC never wanting to schedule the bigger SEC schools.
No. It is the other way around. Bigger SEC schools do not want to schedule USC.
USC team is always talented just like most of the SEC schools. It is the coaching that matters. Look at LSU, it played like crap but the talents level is National Champion level.
With coaches like Pete Carrol, USC is crazily good.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 2:16 pm to grizzlylongcut
I still think it's fricked up they didn't match USC vs Georgia following the 2007 season. That would have been an epic game but instead we got total mismatches with Illinois and Hawaii
Posted on 11/30/21 at 2:22 pm to DownSouthCrawfish
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Pete used to smoke everyone. People forget how nuts those USC teams were.
He got his teams up for the big games before laying eggs against unranked nobodies. How they lost to UCLA in 2006 and Stanford in 2007 completely boggles the mind.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 2:42 pm to Bench McElroy
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Hyperbole
4-0 with an average MOV of 29.8 PPG says it's not.
Beating two teams, and one of them being Arkansas, who was not very good then, is not whipping the SEC. It's two teams.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 2:52 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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SEC refused to buy into USC during those years despite their utter dominance over SEC feams.
Over two SEC teams.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 2:59 pm to grizzlylongcut
USC 143- SEC 31
Score in 3 years against SEC teams. And they weren't playing Vanderbilt.
Score in 3 years against SEC teams. And they weren't playing Vanderbilt.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 3:05 pm to RollTide1987
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He got his teams up for the big games before laying eggs against unranked nobodies. How they lost to UCLA in 2006 and Stanford in 2007 completely boggles the mind.
Oregon State is a trap...cowtown College in a high school stadium with no media coverage... USC thrived in the spotlight. They were known as the giant killers in 1967 beating USC's National Championship squad 3-0 in the mud.
UCLA rivalry game, anything can happen...punt Bama punt.
Stanford, Harbaugh got under Pete's skin, rattled him and USC"s QB broke his hand in the 2nd quarter and they still kept playing him.
This post was edited on 11/30/21 at 3:09 pm
Posted on 11/30/21 at 3:22 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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Oregon State is a trap...cowtown College in a high school stadium with no media coverage... USC thrived in the spotlight.
In 2008 the Beavers beat SC on a Thursday.
Nationally televised game and SC came off a bye week.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 3:30 pm to LSUintheNW
Oregon State was pretty damn good themselves in both 2006 and 2008. No one knew it at the time those two games kicked off though.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 3:41 pm to VADawg
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No one knew it at the time those two games kicked off though.
Some of us knew they weren't scrubs.
Those Beaver teams started off notoriously slow.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 6:20 pm to MetroAtlantaGatorFan
You had to go there ??
Posted on 11/30/21 at 6:40 pm to VADawg
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Oregon State was pretty damn good themselves in both 2006 and 2008. No one knew it at the time those two games kicked off though.
I wanna say Oregon State could have made the Rose Bowl with a win over Oregon in 2009 and maybe even 2010.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 7:04 pm to VADawg
So a bunch of 3 loss teams? Meh..
Posted on 11/30/21 at 7:09 pm to Finkle is Einhorn
They put up 70 on Arkansas and could have scored 100. Caroll called the dogs off after 70
Posted on 11/30/21 at 7:39 pm to TexasTiger08
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wanna say Oregon State could have made the Rose Bowl with a win over Oregon in 2009 and maybe even 2010.
No. Conference play records:
2007
USC 7-2
ASU 7-2
OSU 6-3
Oregon 5-4
2008
USC 8-1
Oregon 7-2
OSU 7-2 Oregon waxed OSU.
2009
Oregon 8-1
Arizona 6-3
OSU 6-3
2010
Oregon 9-0
5 more teams then....
OSU 4-5
This post was edited on 11/30/21 at 7:42 pm
Posted on 11/30/21 at 7:43 pm to grizzlylongcut
USC ain't beating any top SEC teams any time soon. They are about as soft as OU. Sec is boss and it will always be boss.
Posted on 11/30/21 at 7:44 pm to Bham Bammer
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2006/09/02 Southern California 50 - Arkansas 14 W
Even crazier is that that Arkansas team had the Heisman runner-up in Darren McFadden, finished 10-2 and won the West, and had Florida on ropes in the SECCG until we muffed a punt on the goal line and Florida recovered it for a TD.
This post was edited on 11/30/21 at 7:45 pm
Posted on 11/30/21 at 7:55 pm to Hogwarts
quote:Might have been the least competitive game between two power 5 teams I've ever seen. USC's offense was absurdly good and Arkansas was abysmal that year, particularly before Mcfadden had taken over the offense.
They put up 70 on Arkansas and could have scored 100. Caroll called the dogs off after 70
The next year when Arkansas lost 50-14 or whatever was a weird game. Mcfadden played but he had broken his toe like 3 weeks earlier and Felix Jones fumbled the ball like 3 times I think. It was the first game of the year and I don't think Arkansas realized it was a good team yet at the time.
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