Does the USC Trojans vs Ohio State Buckeyes match really hold significance?”
The game of the day on college football’s week two schedule features the 3rd-ranked USC Trojans and the 8th-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes. These two big-time programs will face-off in front of what is expected to be more than 100,000 screaming Buckeyes fans in “The Shoe” in Columbus. Last season’s match-up between these two was a one-side beat down by USC, however the big difference will be that a year ago the game was played in Southern California. Even with this game being played at Ohio State, NCAA odds makers still have the Trojans as the favorites. USC is at -7 with the total in the contest sitting at 45.5. The USC Trojans and coach Pete Carroll have beaten the Buckeyes six times in a row, including three times Rose Bowl games. This season might be the toughest so far for the boy’s from Southern Cal as they start a true freshman under center. 19-year-old Matt Barkley is just a few short months removed from his senior prom and now he is making his first start on the road for the Troja
Big Ten’s reputation riding on Ohio State-USC by David Mayo | The Grand Rapids Press Saturday September 12, 2009, 8:00 AM The most anticipated game in college football this week has a lot of history to overcome. It isn’t that the University of Southern California has treated the Midwest with anything less than on-the-field respect. If that were the case, it would have slipped up at some point in its past decade-plus of dominance. It would have prepared poorly for a less-than-lustrous non-conference game. It would have allowed the weeks of down time between the end of a regular season and a Rose Bowl game. The Trojans haven’t made those mistakes. They haven’t slipped up, either. USC plays at Ohio State tonight. The game highlights the weekend schedule, just as it did last year, when it was finished early in a 35-3 blowout. That is to say, it wasn’t much different than it has been since the mid-1990s, the last time USC lost to Big Ten Conference team. Even though Ohio State could become
