Updates: Rankings

To the consternation of football fans anticipating a Georgia-USC matchup–which would have pitted arguably the nation’s two hottest two-loss teams–the Rose Bowl has selected No. 13 Illinois to be the Trojans’ opponent in Pasadena on January 1st. In addition to Georgia, Rose Bowl officials passed on several higher-ranked teams, including Missouri, Kansas, and Hawaii. The […]

The Trojans reappeared in the two major basketball polls this week after winning three games in the Anaheim Classic Tournament last week, including a 25-point victory over then 19th-ranked Southern Illinois last night. USC is ranked 22nd by AP voters and 24th in the ESPN/USA Today coaches’ poll. However, they won’t stay there for long, […]

A victory over Arizona State on Thursday, coupled with the latest series of top-ten upsets, gave the Trojans their biggest jump in the polls in a month and a half. USC moved up three spots in each of the major polls, to No. 8 in the AP poll and BCS standings, and to No. 9 […]

USC held at #11 in this week’s AP and BCS rankings after a weekend that saw the Trojans–and their next opponent–idle. The Trojans did move up one spot (from 13 to 12) in the USA Today and Harris polls.
Oregon’s loss last Thursday means that 7th-ranked Arizona State now sits atop the Pac-10 standings, and the […]

So that’s what losing to an Atlantic Sun Conference team will do to you. Saturday’s 15-point loss to unranked Mercer was enough to convince poll voters to drop USC out of this week’s top 25 (the Trojans were at #18 to start the season). Also exiting the polls was Kentucky, who lost to a different […]

The Trojans’ rainy night in Berkeley wasn’t for nothing; the team’s 24-17 victory over the Bears sent USC moving upward in the major polls and the Pac-10 standings. USC rose from 12 to 11 in this week’s AP poll, from 15 to 13 in the USA Today coaches’ poll, and from 14 to 13 in […]

USC’s strong defensive performance in a 24-3 victory over Oregon State on Saturday evening was enough to convince AP voters to move the Trojans up one spot in this week’s poll, from 13th to 12th. The Trojans held at #15 in the USA Today coaches’ poll, and actually fell one spot to #14 in the […]

USC’s men’s basketball team is ranked #18 in the nation in the season’s first AP poll, which was released Friday. The top ten selections are identical to those in the preseason coaches poll, which was released last week, and which also had the Trojans at #18. The Pac-10 had six teams in the top 25 […]

Pac-10 beat writers picked USC’s men’s basketball team to finish sixth in the conference, the Pac-10 announced on Thursday as part of its annual “Media Day” festivities. UCLA received 33 of 34 first-place votes and finished in first place in the media poll, while Washington State received the remaining first-place vote and came in second […]

USC’s loss to Oregon on Saturday resulted in another drop in each of the college football polls, although not quite as far as you may have expected (perhaps because national voters are finally beginning to recognize the Ducks as a very good team). The Trojans now find themselves at #13 in the AP and Harris […]