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Hmm... - washingtonismoney - 09-02-2010

I see USC has given up 16 points in the first half to Hawai\'i of all teams, while allowing Hawai\'i a vigorous 8 yards/play or so. I can\'t watch the game, so I\'m imagining the same defensive cower formation as last year. Is my imagination correct?

Re: Hmm... - Farm93 - 09-02-2010

ESPN would be devastated.  What do you mean you can not watch?

The game is on ESPN.  The game is on ESPN3.  You can watch on cable.  You can watch with a computer.  You can even stream it to your cell phone, etc. etc.

In any event.  USC has the game under control.  USC can score at will.  Hawaii\'s O is innovative enough to move the ball from time to time, but the D is not good enough to stop USC.

USC will win this game, but it is hard to see them going 12-1 or 13-0 or anything like that this season.

I would guess the final score of this game will be 48 to 30 or 26.

Re: Hmm... - washingtonismoney - 09-02-2010

I mean I only had time to post the chortle about USC\'s defense and was (and still am) otherwise engaged. Until ESPN contrives a way to broadcast directly to my brain, sadly it won\'t be possible.

At any rate, winning is immaterial at this point: it\'s not that you win, it\'s how you win. People vastly underrate process in sports and so confuse performance with achievement.

Re: Hmm... - yvonne - 09-02-2010

Quote:At any rate, winning is immaterial at this point: it\'s not that you win, it\'s how you win. People vastly underrate process in sports and so confuse performance with achievement.

Indeed, I\'m loving the fact that three quarterbacks have been able to put up more than 400 yards against SC.

Re: Hmm... - Farm93 - 09-03-2010

If Stanford didn\'t have "your deal" I would think the game would be a likely win.  Stanford could still win, but even if the USC season has fallen apart that team will still come with their very best.

USC was really, really motivated for that Hawaii game.  And yet they allowed 36 points to a mediocre WAC team.  The efforts to avoid injuries in the practices were mentioned constantly, so maybe the USC D gets tougher next week.  Trouble for SC was that they also looked slow.  One would think that the D\'s speed will not improve.

The USC offense also got about 21 points on big plays that would just not happen against SEC, Pac-10/12 or ACC type teams.  

USC is USC, so everyone will talk about them going 13-0 or 12-1.  I think the team I watched is more likely to go 9-4 or 8-5.

Re: Hmm... - washingtonismoney - 09-03-2010

To be honest, while USC is approximately that quality, I don\'t think they will: after the second or third loss, they\'ll check out mentally. What\'s there to play for? A zero or one loss season serves as a giant middle finger to the rest of college football; an 9-4 season hardly does that. They aren\'t playing in a bowl, so bowl positioning isn\'t a factor. So they\'ll have nothing to play for and so won\'t really care.

The trick for Stanford is to hope that they\'ve reached that state by the time they play us. (Which is unlikely: their toughest opponents are Washington and @Minnesota up to that point.) (I think we\'ll beat them either way, but the odds are considerably increased if they don\'t care.)

Re: Hmm... - fullmetal - 09-03-2010

Hawai\'i has some blazing fast receiver speed and a decent QB stable.  That\'s about all you need to run their offense, I think.  Can Stanford match that?  I have no doubt Stanford\'s defense is more talented than Hawai\'i\'s defense--the question of whether that\'s enough to frustrate the SC passing game is another matter.