🏈 The USC game will be like the Duke game for Alabama?

[rick4bama]

I can't find the link to what I read. But it said that the USC game will be no better than the Duke game for Alabama?

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

 

[Rolltide24]

At least USC went 8-5 last year. They did almost fire their coach and all, but they had a better record than Duke (5-7). Both played in pretty awful conferences too. I’d say it’s not a win we can hang our hat on if we pull it off.

 

[OldPlayer]

USC recruiting for 2020 hasn't been stellar (so far). If they don't win early, there's a good chance the coach could be fired midseason. A lot of negatives, but those are the teams you have to watch out for.

 

[BamaFan334]

We better watch our ass against USC. Slovis is a solid quarterback that can sling it. St. Brown is a Top 10 receiver. USC is bringing back two five star starting corners in Griffin and Taylor-Stuart. USC will pose more of a threat than any other team we've faced in years at the Kickoff Classic.

 

[mando]

By name alone USC would be a better win. Not saying its right but it is the way it is. With that said USC will not be an easy out. I saw somewhere that they return something like 15 starters and the early line is only 9 points. Much different expectations for this opening day game. Could be a little bit of a butt puckering game.

 

[alabamajack]

Personally, I think we go 14-0 next year. Unfinished business from this past year gets finished.

 

[JoseyWalesTheOutlaw]

Personally, I think we go 14-0 next year. Unfinished business from this past year gets finished.

You're playing very well today...congrats

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Usc west is 100% better than Duke...which was the worse scheduled game in bama history.... it had no value....zero....
Usc west at least has history and is a blue blood even if they suck at present....
Duke....o gosh...if we somehow had beat AU.....still no playoff for bama because of DUKE

 

[#80]

Not sure I understand the rationale behind this thread.

 

[rick4bama]

Alabama Football: Southern Cal opener could disappoint like Duke
Alabama Football: Southern Cal opener could disappoint like Duke

by Ronald Evans1 day ago Follow @revansbama

The Alabama football, out-of-conference schedule hurt the Crimson Tide’s Playoff chances in 2019. Trading Duke for Southern Cal is again, not a resume enhancing opener.
As rapidly as it can, Alabama football is getting away from neutral site, out of conference, season-openers. The primary reason is the new economics of college football. Even elite programs such as Alabama football need attractive home games in a season ticket package.

Plus, the allure of an early-season, neutral-site game to Dallas or Orlando has become less enticing. After a 2021 game in Atlanta against Miami, the Crimson Tide is turning to high-profile, home-and-home games every season. The first of those is at Texas in the second week of the 2022 season.

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As Nick Saban has said, finding teams willing to face the Crimson Tide is not easy. Last season it became a weaker opponent in Duke. The opposition to open the 2020 season may not be much stronger. The USC Trojans had an 8-5 record in 2019. That is certainly better than the 5-7 mark posted by Duke.

Unfortunately for the Crimson Tide and Trojans fans, USC is on a downward spiral. There is broad belief among USC insiders the only reason Head Coach Clay Helton was retained was the cost of his buyout. Recent staff turnover and other potential exits indicate serious instability in the USC football program.

Helton fired his defensive coordinator and special teams coach after the Holiday Bowl. Three weeks later, he still does not have a DC. In recent days it was learned USC Offensive Coordinator, Graham Harrell might be heading to the NFL. Harrell brought the Air Raid offense to USC. His development of freshman quarterback, Kedon Slovis impressed and gained him an offer from the Texas Longhorns. After a sweetener from the Trojans, he passed on the UT job, but the NFL may be harder to turn down.

Slovis was tremendous, setting an all-time, freshman completion record of 71.9 percent.

What I'm talking about. @#80.

 

[planomateo]

Usc west is 100% better than Duke...which was the worse scheduled game in bama history.... it had no value....zero....
Usc west at least has history and is a blue blood even if they suck at present....
Duke....o gosh...if we somehow had beat AU.....still no playoff for bama because of DUKE

There is only one USC and it isn't in the SEC

 

[Bamabww]

Well, I'd rather play USC than Duke anyway regardless.

 

[EasyTider]

Back to the Future. RUN DA BAWL!!

 

[50+yeartidefan]

There is only one USC and it isn't in the SEC

Ummm. Didn't know that.

 

[BamaFan334]

Usc west is 100% better than Duke...which was the worse scheduled game in bama history.... it had no value....zero....
Usc west at least has history and is a blue blood even if they suck at present....
Duke....o gosh...if we somehow had beat AU.....still no playoff for bama because of DUKE

Definitely in the Playoff if we beat Auburn and it wouldn't have been close.

 

[OldPlayer]

There is only one USC and it isn't in the SEC

Except that USCe was established before California was a state and 79 years before USCw existed.

 

[#80]

Except that USCe was established before California was a state and 79 years before USCw existed.

We're talking about college football not statehood. SC dwarfs them in football not even a conversation.

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Except that USCe was established before California was a state and 79 years before USCw existed.

So there is a USCe and UScw. Well @planomateo .... ?????????

 

[50+yeartidefan]

Definitely in the Playoff if we beat Auburn and it wouldn't have been close.

Never know but. I doubt it