I am taking a look at the USC Trojans right now and like what I am seeing. USC absolutely owns Cal and Cal was completely exposed in their last loss @ Oregon, 42-3 drumming. Oregons quarterback hadn't thrown a touchdown all season and Cal made him look like a heisman candidate, Masoli was 21-25 with 3 td's 0 int's. Cal has zero momentum going into this game and everybody knows deep down Cal never really feels like they have a shot against USC. Sure, Cal started the year off 3-0 but they didn't really play anyone good in Maryland, Eastern Washington, and Minnesota. Minnesota has a decent record, 3-1, but I watched that game and Minnesota had zero speed on defense and Jahvid Best single-handedly won that game scoring 5 TD's. USC's defense will not let that happen.
Cal just doesn't have the WR's to balance their rush attack to beat USC. The WR's are just plain bad and the OL lost their two best lineman to the NFL last year. They also lost 3 out of 4 LB's this past season. USC should be able to run all over Cal.
USC's defense played great last week against WSU holding them to zero points for the first 3 quarter.The offense scored 20 in the 1st quarter and let up on the gas a little bit. I do not expect them to let up the gas against in state rival Cal. Cal only has one real threat on offense or defense in Jahvid Best. The biggest question mark coming into this game was the health of Matt Barkley and he looked just fine in the last game, throwing 2 td's and 250 yards. USC also ran the ball very well averaging 8.5ypc. I know it was agaisnt WSU but it doesn't hurt coming into this Cal game.
Now the line movement is saying to stay far away from USC with 61% on USC the line has dropped from -6 to -4.5 I think a big part of this is the loss of RB Staffon Johnson. I don't think he is going to make a big difference in the game. USC has ample RB's to counter this loss.
USC -4.5 LOCKED
Cal just doesn't have the WR's to balance their rush attack to beat USC. The WR's are just plain bad and the OL lost their two best lineman to the NFL last year. They also lost 3 out of 4 LB's this past season. USC should be able to run all over Cal.
USC's defense played great last week against WSU holding them to zero points for the first 3 quarter.The offense scored 20 in the 1st quarter and let up on the gas a little bit. I do not expect them to let up the gas against in state rival Cal. Cal only has one real threat on offense or defense in Jahvid Best. The biggest question mark coming into this game was the health of Matt Barkley and he looked just fine in the last game, throwing 2 td's and 250 yards. USC also ran the ball very well averaging 8.5ypc. I know it was agaisnt WSU but it doesn't hurt coming into this Cal game.
Now the line movement is saying to stay far away from USC with 61% on USC the line has dropped from -6 to -4.5 I think a big part of this is the loss of RB Staffon Johnson. I don't think he is going to make a big difference in the game. USC has ample RB's to counter this loss.
USC -4.5 LOCKED
