After a solid game against Washington State, Pete Carroll wasted no time in shifting his focus to Washington on Sunday, in particular their redshirt freshman quarterback Jake Locker. Carroll calls Locker “amazing” and “as good a prospect as we’ve seen in our conference in a long time,” which, pondering just the Trojan prospects during Carroll’s tenure at SC, is saying quite a bit. He added that Locker is “way better” than previous Husky QB Isaiah Stanback. Perhaps the opening 21 point line is overinflated in his mind. Read on for a few injury updates from Sunday.

• CB Cary Harris (dislocated right shoulder) underwent an MRI Sunday with official results to be disclosed on Monday. The LA Daily News is reporting that Carroll indicated Harris would probably be out two weeks. Sophomore Shareece Wright will likely start in his place against Washington.
• Vincent Joseph, who bruised his larynx during the Nebraska game, is expected to return this week which could help shore up the cornerback ranks. As reported earlier, Cary Harris’ injury prompted the coaching staff to play true freshman safety Marshall Jones against Wazzou, thus burning his redshirt year.
• LB Brian Cushing hurt his sprained ankle playing against Washington State, the linebacker saying he heard a “popping” sound. Doctors believe it’s merely a scar tissue situation and that he did not actually re-sprain the ankle.
• Linebackers Clay Matthews (shoulder) and Thomas Williams (neck) experienced shoulder and neck soreness, respectively, after the Washington State game but neither’s condition is believed to be serious.
• USC took over the number 1 spot in Jeff Sagarin’s USA Today computer rankings.

Trojans find the right balance (LA Times)
USC shouldn’t get carried away (LA Daily News)
Washington State Report Card (Scott Wolf)
On USC: Rivers a good indicator of where USC’s going (Press-Enterprise)