Any chance of him adding BYU and Baylor to cover his bases?

Oriental Mindoro? I had to look it up to see if it was even a real place, and found out more than I wanted to know: “The inverted-J-shaped Oriental Mindoro is endowed…” huh huh huh.

Still not impressed. When you only play 1 1/2 conference games a year you need to add at least two more games of note. Let’s play would you rather…

USC

Nebraska Arkansas Cal Virginia Tech

Florida

Auburn LSU Tennessee Georgia Florida State Arkansas

In a few years SC will drop Backup College and schedule a true ACC football power…like NC State.

By 2011 the two prominent football colleges will be Boston College and Holy Cross!

Can’t wait to see the Trojans come to the Heights. This never would’ve happened under Tom O’Brien….BC fans thank God every day that that clown is gone.

Lets look at USC’s 2008 Schedule, its pretty well stacked, especially since it will have a new quarterback.

Aug. 30 at Virginia
Sept. 13 Ohio State
Sept. 27 at Oregon State
Oct. 11 Arizona State
Oct. 18 at Washington State
Oct. 25 at Arizona
Nov. 1 Washington
Nov. 8 California
Nov. 15 at Stanford
Nov. 22 Oregon
Nov. 29 Notre Dame
Dec. 6 at UCLA

Andy,

With that schedule it’s a good thing you have the Pac-10 schedule to rest your starters before playing Notre Dame.

Well with uber mega super recruit Jimmy Clausen at quarterback for Notre Dame, we may as well forfeit now.:P

BC fans will surely be thanking O’Brien when they’re being spanked by ND and NC State. I swear, the endless loop of Flutie Hail Mary replays ruined y’all.

Andy,

Fear the emu, buster! Just kidding. I love the SC-ND game, despite the college football version of water torture that is your fight song.

There is an old antiquated reason for that water torture, its mind numbing tradition and indoctrination. Here is a link to what songs are played when. Unfortunately people don’t notice the nuances because their ears are bleeding by then.

http://usctrojans.cstv.com/trads/usc-songs.html

Among some of them, for FIght On…
This song is usually played after first downs and touchdowns. The music for USC’s fight song, “Fight On,” was composed in 1922 by USC dental student Milo Sweet (with lyrics by Sweet and Glen Grant) as an entry in a Trojan spirit contest. In addition to inspiring generations of Trojan fans and players, the song has been used in numerous recordings and movies. Legend has it that during World War II in the Pacific, an American task force attacked an island held by the Japanese. As the Americans stormed the beach, “Fight On” blared from the deck of one of the transports. The U.S. men let out a tremendous roar and eventually won the island.

Might want to check out the protocols for the other songs, but its not all the same song. Just when they play it for every first down it seems like it is. If the other team would prevent USC from getting first downs, they wouldn’t play it so much. Its your teams own fault, heh.

Music to Me Ears:

I could hear “Fight on” and “Conquest” all day and night…does not bother me….and knowing that it drives the opposition crazy, just adds to meeee joy…..

That 2008 schedule is actually pretty impressive. I don’t see any 1AA schools on that schedule. I don’t understand why the Pac10 gets no love; if I remember correctly, since 2001 USC only has 6 losses – 2 from the Big 12 and 4 from the Pac10. Honestly, I don’t see how anyone could poke any holes in anything USC does, (insert Bush recruiting joke here).

Yeah, you know you are in trouble when you hear fight on all the time. The sign you are winning against USC is when you can hear yourself think (and your ear bleeding stops).

The version I learned in the Mid ’90’s:

This song is really slow,
It’s the only song they know,
I really which they’d go,
Your alumna killed Nicole!

Add obligatory Notre Dame Victory March “adaptations” below.

That’s strange, Sean. The version I’ve learned is:

  This is the only song we know
  It is boring and it’s slow.
  Our alumnus killed Nicole.
  And Ron!!!!!

  Then again, maybe it’s six of one, half dozen of the other.

Actually, USC has never played a 1AA school. I think it is one of 7 or 8 schools in 1A that haven’t played a 1AA school in competition history.

I like this trend, UVA in 2008/2010, BC in 2011, and likely the rest of the ACC by 2020. At this rate, by 2020, the Humanitarian will have the Trojans the champs of both the Pac-10 and the ACC.

Plus SEC fans insulting our schedule should have their teams come and visit us on the West Coast. USC has played Auburn and Arkansas in recent years. I’m dying to see a home and home with any one of these: Florida, Tennessee (this one might even happen), LSU (we’ve got to finally settle this nonrivalry-rivalry), Georgia, and maybe Alabama.

I thought I’d heard that there was only one other school besides USC that had never scheduled a 1AA opponent, but I don’t remember who that was supposed to be.

I’m glad the UVA series worked out, that should help both teams, as high protein scheduling usually does. I guess a stumbling block was that UVA wanted a home game in 2009 but USC was already on the road to ND and tOSU that year.and there is a limit to even USC’s ballsy scheduling. Not that any school would play all of their OOC games on the road unless they were a cupcake looking for paydays.

#14. It is pure jealousy. USC has a great record against the SEC and Big 10 for sure. The games against tOSU should be epic or at least as good as the Texas/tOSU series I’m hoping.

1. and 16. I’m a geezer who actually went to high school with Nicole (there was a buzz about her being involved with OJ around the time she graduated).
   It was certainly a sad day for me when it became apparent that OJ had killed her.

Odds of this ever having been sung at a Notre Dame – SC game are zero, but since Sean suggested adaptations:

Rally sons of Notre Dame
for the alumni blame game
We’ll sing of murdering OJ
And Bush pushing our win away
But the body count for OJ is small
Some Domers were able to kill ’em all
Haig and Jose Duarte got the reds
Not yet done is old Condiiiii

Not strictly fair as only one of those individuals is an undergraduate alum and Condoleeza Rice has never strictly been in the line of command for hostilities… but her nickname rhymes with victory, so she got roped in.

Herb—that’s pretty funny, you should write for SNL. Neither ND nor NC State has a CHANCE of beating BC this year

The only other team to never play a 1AA team was Michigan, but I think that ends this year with with their first game against the Mountaineers of Appalachian St.

1. Don’t forget that Alabama played a home and home against UCLA, before the probation so I don’t want to hear excuses, and lost both times, once when they were highly overranked at #3. They also played a home and home series against OU, same result, lost both times, and both times it was prior to the probation period. I think the second time they played OU might have been the first year of probation, but shouldn’t have had an affect on the game. But to Bama’s credit, they will play home and home series; the rest of the SEC prefers to snack on the SunBelt because they need to rest up for the SEC championship game. Here’s what I don’t understand, only 2 teams are going to play in the SEC CG, yet every team in the conference makes sure to schedule a Sun Belt team and a Div 1AA team every year.

I hate conference championship games and pussy OOC games – what purpose do they serve in helping determine who the best team in the country is? More often than not the conference championship games and weak OOC games have made it harder not easier to determine who’s for real and who’s not.

Stephen

So you can add a team that USC crushed (Arkansas) to the list of don’t want to plays, but you can’t add a team they lost to (Oregon St.) Now that is some fantastic SEC-centric thinking.

By the way, in head to head matchups in the 21st century between the Pac-10 and SEC the Pac-10 has the edge.

But please, don’t let the facts and scoreboard scores get in the way of your thinking.

It’s too bad there’s not more love in this thread for the Ohio State/Southern Cal home-and-home in 08-09. That’s an incredibly ballsy move by both programs in this era of lose-and-you’re (probably)-out…also on tap for the Buckeyes: home-and-homes with Miami (FL), Cal, Virginia Tech and Oklahoma. Not too shabby, and almost certainly more strenuous over ten years than anybody’s traditional matchup w/ ND will be.

There are 5 teams that have never played a 1-AA team. It had been 8 before last season, I think. Two more—Ohio State and Michigan—will drop from the list this fall after playing Youngstown St. and HOT! HOT! HOT! this fall, respectively. The three remaining are Notre Dame, USC, and UCLA.

DC, I expected better. The lyrics, they do not match the music of the song.

Did someone say that the Pac10 has an edge on the SEC in head to head match ups in the 21st century? Combine that with the 13-13 record against the Big Ten in bowl games since the start of the BCS and it looks like to me that the Gators really saved the SEC from slipping; back to back losses to the Big East and Big Ten Champions would have been really bad. I just love how no matter what the records say SEC fans will find some way to argue that the SEC is the most dominate conference in the country; deep yes, dominate no. Unless dominance is judged by one team in one game played weeks after the regular season.

I will give the SEC this: no one relishes the underdog role more than the SEC; given an SEC team more than a month of hearing that they are going to lose and they can’t beat a team from up north and I’ll give you a beat down…oh wait, haven’t most of the underdogs won the NCG in the last decade?? Never mind.

Rusty: true enough, not one of my stronger efforts, but I can’t really keep the tune in my head for some reason. It’s like an anti-ear-worm.

#24: Well the point of this thread was that USC scheduled a decent series with a solid mid-level ACC team rather than a cupcake when they already had OOC games with tOSU and ND on tap. The quality of the game between tOSU and USC is pretty self-evident, even to snarky Florida fans who are still in gloat mode. Had tOSU beaten Florida this past year the Buckeyes would be giving USC a race for being the dominant team of the decade. I guess at 1—1 in championship games they are still in second place since Miami and Oklahoma wouldn’t have much momentum at this point.

I still say these types of big games have more upside than downside, as the tOSU-Texas series has shown. The winner becomes a front-runner in the MNC race and the loser is still in the discussion until they lose again.

I hope you were talking about the UM/ND rivalry Caballo, since USC makes a point of scheduling teams like tOSU, Nebraska, Auburn in addition to playing ND every year.

1. I think you just have to apply some domer bussiness school rhythm to make them fit.

SLKM:

The incessant playing of Fight On and Conquest at the Mausoleum are tolerable.

The pubescent on the PA system leading the Go… (drumming pause) Go… (drumming pause)… Go (drumming pause)…. chant — that crap’s against the Geneva Convention.

FWIW, I have my own version of Fight On, which goes:

I hate the ol’ SC
I hate the band, I hate the horse.
I hate the guy in drag
Who’s sitting on that fuckin’ horse.

I’ll add other bits as alcohol provides, such as the following:

I wish the SC band
Would learn another tune.

Someday, the ol’ SC
Will slide into the sea.

I guess this proves that I really do hate SC more than ND and duhOSU; thanks to SKLM, for leading me to yesterday’s moment of clarity.

And not to mention I have to shell out $130 to see the Mighty Penguins because of my ticket lottery. Bastards.

tOSUBuckeyes – You know, if you had a championship game this past season, then you wouldn’t have the excuse that you were off for 50+ days as the reason you lost. Then again, maybe a Big 10 CG game would have pitted you against Wisky if you were in different conf divisions. So, I think we all feel your pain when you speak against conference championship games.

#33
And what would have an Ohio State vs. Wisconsin championship settled had Wisconsin won? Michigan beat Wisconsin pretty soundly and lost to Ohio State. The conference championships are a joke. Many considered LSU the most talented team, playing its best ball at the end of the season, and were they in the conference championship game? No. As I have said all along, CCGs are a waste of time and only exist to provide additional $$ for the conferences that have them. My argument has been for the SEC, Big 12, and ACC (only 1 or 2 years into their conference championship games) to drop their CCG, quit scheduling pussy 1AA schools and Sunbelt conference teams and pick up more big time OOC games.

Making the Big Ten add a team and have a conference championship solves nothing in terms of determining a true national champion, or who should play for it.

1. - There is no excuse for losing to Florida the way we did, they put it on us and really whipped our asses, my hats off to them. The did the exact same thing USC did to OU when they beat the 55-14 or whatever it was. I have my theories on why those two games went down the way they did, but that’s a whole other conversation. I don’t believe there is a single coach or player who likes the long layoff after the regular season. It does not exist in any other sport on the planet; no one waits 6-8 after the regular season to play the NCG. Could you imagine if the NCAA BBall tournament went all the way down to the semi-finals and then took 8 weeks off before playing the NCG? Or what about the NFL playoffs? Just the extra week or two off is enough to have every journalist, coach, and prognosticator buzzing over the “long layoff.” I think if for nothing else but the integrity of the NC they should find a way to do away with the long layoff.

And I would still be saying this if Ohio State was on the winning side of the NCG. It’s not an excuse – there are no excuses – we had our asses handed to us good.