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No crummy season for USC should be complete without a loss to Arizona. Saturday the Trojans ended their labored autumn with a 21-17 loss to the Wildcats for the first time since 2000, picking up their hard-to-fathom fourth defeat on a late Arizona touchdown.

This one was ugly to the end. Maybe it's for the best that this showing was relegated to cable in a timeslot that would keep anyone on the East Coast from watching.

One team is surging, the other trying to regain its balance after embarrassing losses and weeks of public flogging.

A home game on Thanksgiving weekend is nothing unusual for USC, except the main topic is something usually esoteric like whether Notre Dame will fire Charlie Weis before the Trojans cruise into another Rose Bowl.

If losing three games and probably being frozen out of a BCS bowl is not enough, USC faces another dilemma as it limps into the city championship game.

With so much attention on injuries to wide receiver Damian Williams and tight end Anthony McCoy, USC's defensive line got a boost this week with the return of tackle Averell Spicer.

There is a lot of speculation about whether or not USC WR Damian Williams will play on Saturday.

The latest edition of the USC-UCLA crosstown rivalry is a crossroads game for the Trojans.

With so much criticism of USC's defense following last week's loss to Stanford, linebacker Chris Galippo took exception to the blanket perception that his unit is the root of the Trojans' recent struggles.

USC and Tennessee are scheduled to play a home-and-home series in the years 2020 and 2021, which means Pete Carroll and his former assistant, Lane Kiffin, are unlikely to face each other by the time the team's play.

As Matt Barkley is to USC's offense, Chris Galippo is to its defense. Both are first-year starters replacing high NFL draft picks.

USC won't play Stanford again until Oct. 9, but memories of Saturday's humiliating 55-21 defeat at the Coliseum are sure to linger for the Trojans.

Film does not lie, especially when you lose by 34 points to Stanford. So USC coach Pete Carroll finally admitted Sunday night that skeptics were right to question how his inexperienced defense could not be a liability this season.

When USC plays Stanford, a common question is whether this game is a physical mismatch.

With the college football season winding down, the time to start sorting through statistics and performances to decide post-season awards has begun.

Posted Today at 2:49 pm in Featured , Football , Sports Well, glad that's over. After pulling out a grinding 14-9 win at Sun Devil Stadium against Arizona State, the Trojans couldn't hide their excitement afterward.

TEMPE, Ariz. - USC wanted to make an emphatic statement following last week's game that everyone wanted to forget against Oregon.

Miller column: Despite the two losses, USC remain legitimate contenders for the Rose Bowl.

A day after his worst loss as USC coach, Pete Carroll reviewed the films of Oregon's 47-20 victory over the Trojans and felt just as bad the second time around.

After suffering their worst loss since 1997, the No. 12 Trojans took their first step toward turning the page Monday by trying to put the pieces back together on the practice field.