2007 USC Trojans football team
The 2007 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California during the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Pete Carroll and played its home games at the Los Angeles Coliseum. It was ranked No.1 in all national pre-season polls, picked unanimously to win the Pac-10 Conference and expected to contend for a national championship. The 2007 team was named national champion by Dunkel, became the first team to win six straight Pacific-10 titles, and were first team in major college football to achieve six straight 11-win seasons.
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The 2007 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California during the 2007 NCAA Division I FBS football season. The team was coached by Pete Carroll and played its home games at the Los Angeles Coliseum. It was ranked No.1 in all national pre-season polls, picked unanimously to win the Pac-10 Conference and expected to contend for a national championship. After the season, ten USC players were selected in the 2008 NFL Draft, with a school-record seven players selected in the first two rounds. Over the next four years, 25 more players from the 2007 Trojan football team were drafted into the NFL. The 2007 team was named national champion by Dunkel, became the first team to win six straight Pacific-10 titles, and were first team in major college football to achieve six straight 11-win seasons. USC won the 2007 Rose Bowl Game, the team’s fifth straight year winning thePac-10 Championship and finishing in the top 4 in the national polls. It is the only team in college football history to win two national championships in the same 5-year period. USC was named the national runner-up in the 2007 Heisman Trophy race, with quarterback John David Booty a front-runner for the Heisman Trophy. It also won the National Championship Game in 2007, the first time a team had done so since the 1996 Notre Dame Fighting Irish football team won the title in 1996. The Trojan defense returned to using the 4–3–4 formation, led by Brian Cushing, Keith Rivers and Rey Maualuga, for the fifth year in a row.
USC’s defense was the highlight of the 2007 season, with Cushing and Rivers leading the way on the line of scrimmage and in the box. The defense was considered to be one of the best defenses during the 2006 season. In the 2007 preseason, Sports Illustrated named Cushing as the running back of the year. In August 2007, three of four experts at SI. com predicted USC would win the BCS Championship Game. In mid-August, all twelve experts polled by ESPN picked USC to win the season’s BCS Championships Game. USC finished the season No.2 in the Coaches’ Poll and No.3 in the Associated Press Poll. The season ended with a No.4 ranking in both AP and Coaches polls, their fifth straight season winning the Pac 10 Championship. The Trojan defense was named as the best in the country by Sports Illustrated in the pre-season season top 20 list of players heading into 2007. The USC running back was named the 2007 season as the Running Back of the Year by Sports Illustrated in the top 20 players heading into 2007. In the preseason, USC was the unanimous pick to win the Pacific 10 Conference, with 10 starters and 10 returning starters and key backups. The Trojans were also the unanimous pick to win this year’s conference title; USC’s fifth year win and a row as a conference title.
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