[Dog Gone]

The Cal/USC game has some interesting angles. If Cal wins, they return to the Rose Bowl for the first time since 1959, the longest period for any Pac-10 team.

If USC wins, it has the Rose Bowl ticket in its back pocket, but still might play the winner of the OSU/Michigan game in Arizona if they close out undefeated against Notre Dame and UCLA.

That would be like moving the old Rose Bowl matchup to Glendale, Arizona.

Pete Carroll is undefeated in November since taking over the reins at USC. But Cal wants that Rose Bowl bid that it lost a couple of years ago when the flawed BCS formula put Texas there instead and sent the 4th ranked team in the country to the Holiday Bowl.

Bears and Trojans in the Colosseum. Kind of like an ancient gladiator duel coming up about 90 minutes after the OSU/Michigan game is over.

[MikefromOhio]

should be a fun one to watch...

Cal is just quirky enough this year too pull that one off...

[rockthecasbah]

Ok - It's time for me to recycle another urban LA legend:

A story worth repeating.

USC has not lost a game at home in five years, a streak which started in 2001 when the Carson Palmer-led team needed overtime to beat Oregon State.

Before USC’s win against Oregon State in 2001, J.K. McKay, who is the son of legendary Trojans coach John McKay, sneaked into the stadium with former USC quarterback Pat Haden and spread his father’s ashes along the USC sideline.

Call it a coincidence, call it divine intervention, call it whatever you want, but somehow since the ashes of the winning-est coach in USC history were mixed in with the L.A. Memorial Coliseum grass, USC has been unbeatable in the Coliseum.