USC Trojans vs Iowa Live Stream

The USC Trojans take on the Iowa Hawkeyes in a major bowl game showdown.

This is the time to shine for the Pac-12 according to the experts at Forbes with their predictions, as the only clashes in Week 5 of two ranked teams both occur within the Pac-12 – USC versus Washington being one of those. USC, despite being scandal ridden with the admissions fiasco and having their AD resign, could make a major move this week and this season and totally surprise a lot of people.

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They started as underdogs. They weren’t the glamorous team we know today as college football’s most Hollywood program. They had been the scrappy upstarts, earning the nickname Trojans. During this time, the athletes and coaches of the university were under terrific handicaps, LA Times sports director Owen Bird once said of coming up with the nickname in 1912. They were facing teams which were better and bigger equipped, yet they’d splendid fighting spirit. The name Trojans fitted them. A hundred years ago, USC made the choice to abandon rugby, that was more popular on the West Coast at that time, and embrace American football, despite the small school’s significant disadvantages.

There are no teams which are better and bigger equipped, there are no teams that carry more players that look like they belong in the National Football League right now, whether it is through size or speed or spectacular agility or pinpoint accuracy as passers. USC has the look of a larger than life college football team, earning it the advantage of the doubt when setting anticipation for a coming season. It’s assumed that USC football should be a national power by default, thanks to its history of success, paired with its location in sunny LA in the courtyard of an endless supply of band preparation talent high, with only UCLA and San Diego State joining it in the fertile Southern California region.

Therefore, the outsized anticipation for the 2015 USC Trojans seem eminently reasonable, even when the present version of the squad has not earned them yet. – The 2015 Trojans held their annual spring scrimmage on Saturday, at a time when there’s very little reason not to feel good about where the program is heading. NCAA sanctions are in the rear view mirror, the team’s depth rising to the point where it is starting to no longer be a concern after fallout from the Reggie Bush devastated the scholarship numbers through the troubled Lane Kiffin era. Whilst the hiring of Steve Sarkisian to replace Lane Kiffin, his former co offensive coordinator under Pete Carroll, was mostly met with unimpressed shrugs, there’s a feeling right now that the 2015 season offers a chance for USC to start regaining the glory of the mid-2000 under Carroll, its one oasis of sustained national success after 2 decades of mixed results following the departure of Heisman winner Marcus Allen to the NFL’s LA Raiders and coach John Robinson’s flip to the LA Rams, at a time when USC actually had pro competition within the city of LA. The early 2000 dynasty was built att a core of players who looked like they should be pros, frequently lining up in old school, no frills formations with two backs and two receivers, the quarterback under center.

USC has major concerns at quarterback currently in terms of issues. QB Kedon Slovis was still in the concussion protocol through Wednesday, so his status for Saturday at Washington is far from certain. Matt Fink, initially third on the depth chart, could be the main guy again Saturdaya s USC scrambles to keep it going.