Updates from August 1st, 2007

Las Vegas Sports Consultants have established their opening lines for the first week of the college football season. Their largest opening week spread? USC over Idaho by 42.5 points.
College Football Las Vegas Odds (Vegas Insider)

Rivals had football scout Lannie Julias provide an in-depth analysis of each of the incoming Trojan freshmen (and transfers) on offense. He also ranked the new players:

Kris O’Dowd
Mitch Mustain
Joe McKnight
Brandon Carswell
Aaron Corp
Marc Tyler
Damian Williams
Ronald Johnson
Martin Coleman
Jordan Campbell
Broderick Green
Michael Reardon
Rhett Ellison

Of O’Dowd, Julias writes, “He is the star of this 2007 recruiting class. … I see […]

Robert Rousseau of RealFootball365.com assesses the relative strengths of USC’s and UCLA’s current 2008 recruiting classes in the wake of UCLA’s upset in the 2006 rivalry game.  The reason most recruiting services rank UCLA’s 2008 class (a work in progress consisting of solely verbal commits) second nationally is that UCLA has already secured 23 verbal commitments.  USC’s 12 verbal […]