From the Los Angeles Times:
The margin of defeat in Rick Neuheisel’s first loss as UCLA’s coach, you may have heard, was 59 points. . . .
Pete Carroll’s 14 losses at USC have been by a combined 59 points. . . .
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“We remember the Sugar Bowl, I think it my junior year of high school, we let Alabama beat us twice,” Brinson said of a team that also lost to the Crimson Tide in the SEC Championship game. “We’re not letting Alabama beat us twice. In the Sugar Bowl in 2018, they… thought they should have been in the playoffs and lost to Texas.” -- AB-H, 12/27/23
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CMR’s 19 losses have come by a combined 156 points. That’s 8.2 pts per game as opposed to Carroll’s 4.2 pts. per loss.
You know what this means, right? Carroll can’t win the close ones, LOL.
If you threw out the last two UT games and the blasting by LSU in ATL and the 24-6 game vs. Auburn, it would be a pretty close comparison. I think those are the only four double digit losses. While the beat downs by UT are inexcusable, I think USC has played one National Championship team (Texas and Vince Young) in that period whereas Auburn was 13-0, LSU won the MNC and we lost a close one to UF’s MNC team.
Given the disparity in the schedules CMR’s 75-19 compares ver favorably to Carroll’s 78-14.
I just hope we can get a shot at them in Miami.
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Pete Carroll’s losses:
2001
Kansas State, by 4
Oreon, by 2
Stanford, by 5
Washington, by 3
Notre Dame, by 9
Utah, by 4
2002
Kansas State, by 7
Washington State, by 3
2003
California, by 3
2004
N/A
2005
Texas, by 3
2006
Oregon State, by 2
UCLA, by 4
2007
Stanford, by 1
Oregon, by 7
One loss by more than one score. Not bad.
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Because I got curious and looked it up:
2001
South Carolina by 5
Florida by 14
Auburn by 7
Boston College by 4
2002
Florida by 7
2003
LSU by 7
Florida by 3
LSU by 21
2004
Tennessee by 5
Auburn by 18
2005
Florida by 4
Auburn by 1
West Virginia by 3
2006
Tennessee by 18
Vanderbilt by 2
Florida by 7
Kentucky by 4
2007
South Carolina by 4
Tennessee by 21
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