Beat the farm!

Returning home after a very sloppy performance against Washington, the Trojans look to clean up their mistakes as the Stanford Cardinal arrive in Los Angeles for their weekender. The Cardinal, as will hopefully teams around the Pac-10, will have their thoughts and prayers with Stanford QB T.C. Ostrander, who suffered a seizure on Sunday and will not play. In place of Ostrander will be redshirt sophomore Tavita Prichard, who has thrown only three passes in his career. Stanford comes into the game 1-3 on the season, but 0-3 in conference play after 3 home games, and things do not get easier for them with road games against USC and Cal still on their plate. In their first road game of the year, I honestly don't think Stanford has a chance of even crossing midfield against the Trojan defense. But if we commit 16 penalties, give up 3 turnovers, miss a field goal and have a punt blocked, anything can happen. The last time USC has lost a home game was to Stanford in 2001, but this matchup looks as lopsided as last years. Poor Stanford getting the Trojans a week after a dismal performance two years in a row; last year we played them after losing to Oregon State 33-31, now they have us in a game where we have something to prove. The result? USC (-40) 38, Stanford 0 (I said nothing about covering the spread...)

As for the rest of the games this week, including two huge matchups in SEC play:

Thursday, October 4th
#11 South Carolina (-3.5) 31, #8 Kentucky 28

Saturday, October 6th
#1 Louisiana State (-8.5) 35, #9 Florida 24
#2 Southern California (-40) 38, Stanford 0
#4 Ohio State (-7) 31, #23 Purdue 18
Illinois (+3) 28, #5 Wisconsin 24
#6 South Florida (-16.5) 35, Florida Atlantic 10
#7 Boston College (-20.5) 31, Bowling Green 14
#10 Oklahoma (-11.5) 42, #19 Texas 17
#12 Georgia (+1) 33, Tennessee 28
#13 West Virginia (-26.5) 56, Syracuse 17
#22 Clemson (-6) 24, #15 Virginia Tech 21
#16 Hawaii (-39) 63, Utah State 21
#17 Missouri (-7) 49, #25 Nebraska 38
#18 Arizona State (-8) 42, Washington State 25
#21 Rutgers (-3.5) 35, #20 Cincinnati 20
#24 Kansas State (-3) 42, Kansas 28
Arizona (+4) 21, Oregon State 16
UCLA (-20.5) 31, Notre Dame 24