My Favorite Blank

The team that was being built up as the best guys ever in Trojan Land went down hard Thursday Night to a team that had already lost two games on the year. The Oregon State Beavers took down the mighty Trojans 27 to 21 and end all speculation of this team winning a National Title in college football. The game had nothing to do with big plays or fancy play-calling that made the Beavers the victors in this one. The game was mainly based on a running back from Oregon State going right up the middle on what was being called “the best defense in the nation”.

So why does USC lose this game? How does the best defense in the nation give up 27 points? Why is this team the best to ever play at USC? Well those questions can be answered by the first game of the season. There was way too much weight that USC got credit for after going on the road and beating the Virginia Cavaliers with authority. Everyone quickly assumed that USC was just that good and no one ever took time to look if the Virginia team was just that bad. If folks would have been smart, they would have seen UCONN do the same thing to the Virginia team and they won handly 45 to 10 and showed the country that Virginia wasn’t a very good football team. Instead of taking the time to factor that in, everyone just wanted to punch the ticket for USC in the Title game this year.

Now the PAC 10 has been struggling and they continue to lose all of their non-conference games. So USC had no quality opponents left and needed something that would help them make a legitimate claim to the National Title Game this year. So since the chance to prove it on the football field wasn’t going to be available this year; we get to hear how this team is the best ever from Southern California. If the media could convince voters that this team was better than all of the rest, they could ride to Miami in that fashion. As strange of a strategy that might be, it was actually working and people all over the country was repeating the same words that the 2008 USC team was better than any other team ever at USC. Now the cold hard truth comes into play and we see USC isn’t even a top 25 team in the country right now. This team did nothing all year to be considered the best and now a national television audience got to see it for themselves. USC has no ammunition left for this year and they are done in 2008.

USC is going to face a lot more than the loss of the game and the loss of the title shot this year; as recruits all across the country will be 2nd guessing their choices to go to USC. The recruiting will get hit hard from this loss on national television and the elite recruits in the Nation will now be looking for other schools to go play football at. The USC program is already looking pretty weak for next year anyways and now they will lose prize recruits because they couldn’t beat a Oregon State team on the big stage. I wouldn’t even be surprised if Pete Carrol calls it quits after this year and makes the jump back to the NFL. The mighy Trojans are no longer mighty and even the New England Patriots have a better excuse why they lost this year already.

Let’s just hope the sports stations, college pregame shows and talk radio let it be known that the 2008 USC Trojans went from the best team ever at Southern California to one of the most over hyped teams in the nation in only 3 games. USC did not deserve to be ranked higher than Georgia with 4 wins and Oklahoma with 3 wins; while they only had 2 wins on the season. Kids all across the country might be eating their Halloween candy before the USC Trojans get their 4th win this year. You can officially mark the Trojans off the list and now we can actually focus on the real college football teams this year.

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So now we all await the Kirk Herbstreet side of the story. Kirk must of had a rough Friday morning waking up and I’m sure when he first woke up his first thought had to be “was that just a nightmare?”. No Kirk! USC really did lose and now you have to go to work and face the National audience and let us know why USC lost this game. I’m sure your not man enough to admit the better football team won, so I look forward to hearing your views on this game and what USC did wrong to lose this game on National Television. I am curious if ESPN will still run those commercials of you and Pete Carrol on the bus and your acting like that you’re avoiding his phone calls. You and Pete really need each other right now and I hope you two can still be the best of friends when USC is playing some school like Southeastern Nevada in a bowl game this year that is sponsored by Alaskan Auto Parts. I’m sure Corso will help you out as usual, but you might want to lay down and take this one like a man.

Now if you can excuse me for one moment, I think I will go off with my friends and neighbors from the South and celebrate this one. You know how we like to celebrate in the South?

Celebration Time