Updates: Football

Reversing a schedule change announced earlier this month, USC has moved its 2008 home contest against the Oregon Ducks back to its original date of November 22nd. The game had been shifted to October 4th (currently a Trojan bye week), but that date would pose a conflict with UCLA should both the Trojans and the […]

The Trojans ended their first week of Rose Bowl preparations on Sunday with an intrasquad scrimmage, which the coaches used primarily as a way to evaluate players for next season. Former Arkansas teammates Mitch Mustain and Damian Williams (each sitting out this season under NCAA transfer rules and thus unable to practice with the team […]

The Trojans will participate in a closed scrimmage today, Sunday, before taking a three day break and kicking off a 3-day set of practices at the Home Depot Center starting Thursday. (Practice will then resume December 26 with six straight practices leading up to the Rose Bowl game.) Rather than focusing on the game plan […]

For those of you dying to get your hands on a 2008 Rose Bowl game program in advance, the publications are being sold for $10, plus shipping and handling. (Of course, they are “not guaranteed to arrive by game day,” so technically you will only be paying for them in advance, not necessarily receiving them […]

Friday was the first of three consecutive days of bowl practice which will conclude with a scrimmage on Sunday. After two full weeks away from live action following SC’s victory over UCLA, John David Booty practiced Friday and noted that he feels “just like [he] did last year” when he blistered Michigan for 391 yards […]

The Trojans have shifted the dates of a few of its football games on its 2008 schedule to accommodate television:

USC’s road game at Oregon State has been moved from 9/27 to 9/25 (a Thursday)
USC’s home game against Oregon has been moved from 11/22 to 10/4

Moving the Ducks game helps correct the Trojans’ unbalanced 2008 schedule, […]

Redlands East Valley senior running back Chris Polk has backed out of an earlier verbal commitment to USC and will instead attend the University of Washington, he announced earlier this week. Polk’s commitment to the Huskies is firm enough that he will leave high school early and enroll at the university in January. It’s not […]

The Trojans practiced Saturday for the last time until Friday (Dec. 14), allowing players to focus on final exams and coaches to hit the road hard recruiting. “We’ll be all over the place next week,” Pete Carroll told Rivals. At the conclusion of practice, Carroll told the media that three players stood out during the first two […]

Friday’s 90-minute workout, its first practice of an allowed 15 prior to the Rose Bowl, was conducted without QB John David Booty, who banged up his finger in the UCLA game. Booty will also miss today’s (Saturday’s) practice, the team’s final practice before reconvening next Friday, to attend a class field trip.  Other seniors, including LB […]

USC’s Fred Davis, Sedrick Ellis, and Taylor Mays were named on Friday to the 2007 The Sporting News All-American first team. In addition, Everson Griffen was named to that publication’s freshman All-American first-team.
Davis, Ellis, Mays Make 2007 Sporting News All-American First Team (Official USC site)
SN’s 2007 college football All-Americans (Sporting News)