USC Football Schedule

Los Angeles, California, has quickly become one of the premiere hotbeds of college football action in recent years. This season should be no exception, as Trojan fans eagerly anticipate the USC football season to kick off. What has spawned the resurgence in Southern Cal football? Certainly one of the major catalysts was the hiring of Pete Carroll as head coach, who was named the 2003 Division I-A Coach of the Year by the American Football Coaches Association and is generally recognized as one of the best coaching minds in all of football today. It also helps that the Trojans have enjoyed recruiting classes over the past several seasons, landing such talent as quarterbacks Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart, running back Reggie Bush, and defensive standouts like Troy Polamalu and Shaun Cody. One look at the USC football schedule in any given year should fill Trojan fans with confidence that their team can be a serious title contender.

USC Football Schedule 2005

For the Trojans of Southern Cal, the season begins on the road against the Hawaii Rainbows. The September 3 game will be televised on ESPN2. Then after a week off, the USC football schedule has the two-time defending National Champions playing their home opener against the Arkansas Razorbacks. Following that are three-straight Pac-10 games against Oregon, Arizona State and Arizona before a trip to South Bend, Indiana and a clash with long-time rival Notre Dame. Then its back to the conference schedule, with a trip to Seattle to play the Washington Huskies before back-to-back home games against Washington State and Stanford. To close out the season, USC hosts Fresno State in between a pair of epic confrontations -- a game against California, who handed the Trojans their only loss in 2003 and nearly beat them again a year ago, and the battle for the Victory Bell against longtime rival UCLA. Certainly, the road to a third straight national title will not be an easy one for the USC Trojans.