USC uber alles again?

USC was unanimously selected by a 39-member media panel to win its fifth straight Pac-10 Conference football championship. It’s the fifth year in a row that the Trojans have been selected and they have won the last four titles.

That’s nowhere close to a record, however. USC was picked to win the conference for 18 years in a row from 1965-82 and won 10 times. The last time UCLA was picked to win was in 1998 (and the Bruins did win, going undefeated in the conference).

For the 2007 season, California was picked for second with 323 points with UCLA trailing in third (305), followed by Arizona State (242), Oregon State (237), Oregon (226), Arizona with 162, then Washington State (115) in eighth, Washington ninth (98) and Stanford tenth (47).

The media day program was lengthy, with more than 100 writers, photographers and free-loaders on site. An entire room was devoted to the distribution of piles of media guides from the ten schools and the Pac-10. The combined weight was so heavy that many writers brought wheeled luggage with them to store it all.

There was also a nice media gift, a sort of padded backpack which was handy for all of the media guides if you didn’t bring your own wheelbarrow.

And, of course, there were plenty of refreshments, with two continental breakfast stations and two lines for the buffet lunch. The buffet was a carbo-loaders delight and included caesar salad, a mixed green salad, a breaded and baked chicken dish, penne marinara, garlic bread and rolls and a choice of cannoli or cake (or both). There wasn’t much for the house staff to take back at the end of the event.

Pac-10 Associate Commissioner Jim Muldoon ended the mass session by reminding the media that Pac-10 Basketball Media Day wasn’t far off: November 1.

More to come on Pac-10 Football Media Day . . .

Comments

[Phil Sheridan]

Your breakdown of the culinary fare reminded me of Stu Nahan's quote that went something like "the food wasn't very good and there wasn't enough of it."

By the way, how was the chicken?