Updates: Rankings

Rankings in the preseason ESPN/USA Today coaches’ poll for men’s basketball were revealed today, with USC sitting in the #18 spot. North Carolina edged out UCLA for the top spot in the poll, with Trojan nonconference opponents Memphis and Kansas at #3 and #4, respectively. Other Pac-10 teams landing in the top 25 include #10 […]

Sunday’s new BCS standings have the Trojans ranked at #12, up just two spots from the previous week. Although the human components of the BCS have USC in the top ten, the computers have the Trojans as the 21st-best team in the nation. In fact, USC is the only top-15 BCS team not to be […]

USC’s lopsided shutout victory over Notre Dame on Saturday afternoon sent the Trojans back into the top ten in all of the major polls released Sunday. The Trojans moved up four spots to #9 in the AP poll, climbed one place to #8 in the USA Today coaches’ poll, and rose to #7 in the […]

If the polls are any indication, the college football world was thoroughly unimpressed with USC’s 20-13 victory over Arizona on Saturday–and with the Pac-10 in general. The Trojans dropped from 10 to 13 in today’s AP poll, and from 7 to 9 in the Harris poll and USA Today coaches’ poll. The season’s first BCS […]

A shocking defeat to the Stanford Cardinal on Saturday evening sent the preaseason’s top-ranked college football team even lower in the polls. The Trojans, who fell from 1 to 2 in last week’s AP poll after a poor showing against Washington, dropped to 10 in today’s media rankings. USC fell six places to #7 in […]

AP voters expressed their disapproval of USC’s performance in a lackluster 27-24 victory over the Washington Huskies on Saturday night, dropping the Trojans to #2 in the latest college football rankings for the first time this season. USC held on to its top ranking in the USA Today coaches’ poll and the Harris Interactive rankings, […]

USC is atop the AP and USA Today college football rankings for the fifth consecutive week, according to poll results released Sunday. In addition, the Trojans also find themselves ranked first in the Harris Poll, which released its first ratings of the season today. The Harris and USA Today polls comprise the human-ranking portion of […]

ESPN has posted commentator Dick Vitale’s preseason college basketball rankings, and USC is sitting at 17th on his list, with Vitale adding that, had Nick Young and Gabe Pruitt returned, the Trojans would have been a top ten team. Vitale has fellow Pac-10 teams UCLA (#5), Oregon (#10),  Stanford (#13), and Washington State (#16)  all […]

USC’s resounding victory over Nebraska on Saturday helped the Trojans regain some of the first-place votes it lost during its idle week in the new college football rankings revealed today. The Trojans remained atop both polls for the fourth consecutive week, with 46 first-place votes (compared to last week’s 40) in the AP poll and […]

The top-ranked Trojan football team returns to practice today to begin preparations for Saturday’s contest against Nebraska after a rare weekend off. The Cornhuskers rose to #14 in the polls despite struggling to defeat Wake Forest over the weekend. USC is still safely in first, despite the increasing number of analysts calling for LSU to […]