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College Football Week 11 - Southern Cal 7 Ends Years of Excellence, Stanford wins, 55 to 21

Copyright © 2009 Ed Bagley

It's over for Southern California. Coach Pete Carroll will have dinner with a few minor Hollywood celebrities birth in future.

Gone are the stripes USC 7 BCS Bowls, 7 consecutive 11-win seasons, 7 and rectum AP-4 finishes survey. I think that also is the domain of 7 years of USC in the title of the Conference Pac-10.

After 60 minutes unbearable to see Stanford's Toby Gerhart-abuse Cardinal Ram-run around the field house at USC for 178 yards and 3 touchdowns, Pete Carroll and his Trojans were handed their second major beating in two weeks. There was no stopping Gerhart 25th ranking as Stanford (7-3) did a number on the 11th of ranking and soon dropped USC (7-3) Trojans, 55-21. To make matters worse, was the 2009 USC game back home.

Only two weeks ago, USC was upset 47-20 at Oregon. the Saturday's loss to Stanford was the worst of the Trojans from a 51-0 beating at home against Notre Dame in 1966, 43 years ago.

Pete Carroll had to come down. He lost in November for the first time after 28 consecutive victories in the toughest month for all college football coaches during the season. And for the second time in three weekends, Carroll suffered its worst defeat of his 9 seasons at USC. The perennial flower that flourished in the USC for 7 consecutive years has vanished.

After leading 28-21 after 3 quarters, Stanford crowd with 4 touchdowns in the fourth quarter, just rub a little past indiscretions by the Trojans. Stanford coach Jim Harbaugh 2007 team also upset then 2nd ranked USC 24-23 in the Trojans field house.

Harbaugh has made it clear that he is sick and tired of past domination USC in the Pac-10. Almost everyone thought the Bears would be the California team to carry the Trojans down a peg or two, but Harbaugh was the Cardinal team that has done the job.

Stanford's victory over USC only 1 of 5 disorders among qualified teams this week. The other 4 were recorded by the equipment not classified:

North Carolina (7-3), unclassified and shootings, won 33-24 at home No. 12 Florida over Miami (also 7-3) as the head coach Butch Davis scored his 3rd consecutive win over his old program, and made a bowl of benefit North Carolina for the 2nd consecutive season.

Central Florida (6-4) handed No. 13 Houston (8-2) their second loss 37-32, closing the door to Cougar quarterback Keenum case, there were a couple of minute meeting in Houston last 5 victories. Central Florida Knights gathered at the home of a disadvantage for two touchdowns build a 17-point lead before Keenum threw two late TD passes to put the final score seem closer.

California (7-3) stuck a fork (6-3) at number 18 of Arizona hopes for a better season as the Bears finally roared again at home, beating the Wildcats 24-16. Rutgers (7-2) was hardly impressed with No. 23 South Florida (6-3) as the Scarlet Knights led the South Florida Bulls to school by the close out 31-0. Rutgers forced 4 turnovers, blocked a punt and recorded 7 sacks, and freshman quarterback Tom Savage, threw for two touchdowns.

Stanford upset Southern California was 1 of the 3 great games of the day. The other two involved No. 4 and No. 10 TCU state of Ohio.

No. 4 TCU (10-0) remained undefeated to realize 16th Ranking of Utah (8-2) a bad image in the 55-28 victory. TCU leads the Mountain West Conference mid-level with a record of 6-0. Utah has been running throughout the season acting as the Utes were something special, and then came to TCU and discovered why they are so special. As if to erase any doubt, TCU led 38-14 at halftime.

No. 10 Ohio State (9-2) brought No. 15 Iowa (9-2) in his mind about the Buckeyes welcomed the Hawkeyes in its plazas 101,568 Horseshoe Stadium before taking the game into overtime and win a trip to the Rose Bowl for the first time in 13 years. Ohio State has recently visited the Rose Bowl in 1996 when the Buckeyes were ranked 2nd in the nation after beating Arizona State 20-17.

But back to Saturday game, which provided fodder for sports radio talk shows in the coming months, since neither Ohio State or Iowa would go for a last-minute victory when they had the chance. The game ended at 24-all after Marvin McNutt threw a 10-yard pass to James Vandenberg.

The Buckeyes had squandered a lead of two touchdowns in the 4th quarter. The Hawkeyes had the ball at its 33 with 52 seconds and two timeouts left, but decided to run the clock and send the game into overtime. Ohio State had the ball at its 18 with 2:37 left and waiting times of several, and not try to win.

Both coaches, Kirk Ferentz of Iowa and Jim Tressel of Ohio State wanted hours extras to get settled because he did not trust their kickers, Iowa had lost a field goal attempt of 22 yards in the previous game, and had Ohio State kicker lost 47 yards.

When push came to shove, Tressel basically had three runs through the center for all of 2 yards before leaving the kicker replacement Devin Barclay get to win the 39-yard FG to put the Buckeyes on top, 27-24. The Hawkeyes undefeated this year until losing 17-10 at home in the northwest last week.

Barclay, a 26-year-old former professional football player-freshman, walk on kicker, was forced into duty as a replacement three weeks ago when booting Aaron Pettrey hurt his knee.

And now for the expected event of the week 11. Here are other 8 qualifying teams that won games at home:

No. 5 Cincinnati (10-0) remained undefeated with a field goal lead to beat a 7-3 West Virginia team 24-21. # 6 Boise State (10-0) remained undefeated by allowing the management of a team of 7-4 Idaho 63-25. No. 8 Pittsburgh (9-1) took Notre Dame (6-4) 20-3 after 3 quarters and almost let things get out of the hand before the fight to save the Irish 27-22.

No. 9 LSU (8-2) scored a spectacular victory over Louisiana Tech 24-16. No. 14 Oregon (8-2) pulled Arizona State 44-21. No. 17 Oklahoma State (8-2) was behind 10-7 at the half but beat Texas Tech 24-17. No. 19 Penn State beat Indiana 31-20 despite 4 turnovers in the first half. No. 21 Wisconsin (8-2) also had a struggling Michigan team 45-24.

Here are other 7 teams classified won away from home, always more difficult than winning at home:

No. 1 Florida (10-0) remained unbeaten in the South Carolina coast, 24-14, as the Gators completed their first perfect (8-0) SEC East title in 13 years. No. 2 Texas (10-0) remained undefeated by easily turning Baylor 47-14 as Colt McCoy tied the NCAA record for career victories by a starting quarterback with 42 (take a moment and think about how special the performance was by Colt McCoy).

No. 3 Alabama (10-0) remained undefeated by dominating the state of Mississippi, 31-3, and continues to lead the SEC West with a 7-0 mark. No. 7 Georgia Tech (10-1) stepped on Duke, 49-10, to gain a place in the championship final of the ACC Conference. No. 20 Virginia Tech (7-3) beat Maryland 36-9. No. 22 BYU (8-2) could only muster a 24-19 victory over a hapless, inept, winless New Mexico 0-10 team. No. 24 Clemson (7-3) beat North Carolina 43-23.

Three other games between the teams highlighted unclassified. Temple (8-2) won its 8th straight game with Akron 56-17; Central Michigan (8-2) took its 56-28 victory over Toledo 8 Navy (8-3) earned the victory 8 35-18 demolition of Delaware, and Mississippi (7-3) found a way to penetrate (5-5) Tennessee's defense, scoring 42 points to win 42-17.

Four teams were not ultimately found the right bowl this week, the most striking what was the Southern Methodist (6-4) Mustangs, who beat UTEP 35-31.

June Jones was 1.11 in this first year as coach last year and now has with a bowl eligible team. People do not laugh when using SMU and football in the same sentence. Jones built a giant in Hawaii using the average level of crime Mouse Davis running and shooting, going 75-41 over 9 years, and win 4 of 6 games of bowl. The bottom line of the June Jones-friendly more dangerous than its name suggests.

The other three teams joining SMU as eligible container Oklahoma, Arkansas and Michigan State. Some people wondered if Oklahoma (6-4) will make this year, but the Sooners finally got the job by easily beating Texas A & M, 65-10. Arkansas (6-4) took over a team of Troy 7-3, 56-20, and Michigan State (6-5) was 11 points behind Purdue, 40-37 but won the 4th Brett Swenson field goal with 1:51 left.

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