The Game That Started USC Dynasty (Rare Footage) 

Roll tide

I was there too. Got quiet quick.

That USC defense is very often overlooked due to how explosive the offense was. But that defense was top notch.

Good times! ✌️

Indeed. People forget about that year as they dropped two games they shouldn't have. It sucks because it was always one or two games that cost USC a bid at a championship. That triple overtime loss to CAL and that game to UCLA in 06 and that game against Oregon State in 08. 2006 may have been a tough one against Florida. But I def think that 08 team could've beaten the gators.

Agreed, that 2002 USC team was looking real good at the end of the season.

That 2002 USC Team at the end of the season would have gave some top notch teams a heck of a matchup. Man this was one of those years it could have been a 8 team playoff. MIAMI, OHIO ST, USC, GEORGIA, IOWA, OKLAHOMA, KANSAS ST & WASHINGTON ST.

@@westcoastnative2523 Couldn’t agree with you more. It was always like that . It was one or two games , I remember that Cal game with that Dennis fumble.

I completely agree with you, they were blazing hot at the end of the year and that was what truly started the dynasty

Troy didn’t play against Iowa. He was sidelined by a hamstring injury.

USC played Iowa in the Orange Bowl in January of 2003. This game was eight months later. Different season.

Dont forget about Cody, Patterson, and Grutagood. I know I butcherd his name lol

This was just different

Patrick Whelpley people also forget how good USC’s defenses were. They get lost in the glitz of the offense because it was so high powered. But during that dynasty those defenses were stacked! #fighton

OG_Based_Noodles facts! I think the 04 season, they had like 9 future nfl pros on that defense!😂😂 insane!

Good times you guys lol I miss those days

2006 and 2007 where great teams too. I think if there was a playoff in 2002 to 2007 USC would have a lot more championships.

...why does non-conference ALL that counts when comparing to SEC. The conf sched us about 3/4 of the body of work.

95 Nebraska would've smacked that team around!

@@navynugget7 🧢

@@navynugget7 Woulda, coulda, shoulda.

@@polarbear353 facts are facts bud.

And then they fell silent and forgotten after 2004. 😂 Dogshit can't even make the playoff. Crushed by Utah twice. Irrelevant. Only a playoff expansion can give that trash conference a chance. Really thats just dragging out their inevetable defeat and ejection from the 12 team playoff to lmao.

Your absolutely right. He came out of Long Beach Poly and won the starting job over Bush and White.

Reggie say he got a charge that got him removed so him and lendale moved up

@@bellzo5 yup. he got charged with sexual assault, and then didn’t see the field much ever since even though he was found not guilty

@@Shaunnyhoward he was on USC for almost the entire 00s because of that

He fumbled the ball at Cal on the goal line. Carroll be er forgave him. Rule #1, ball security

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Tells you the talent they had those years.

Yup… Matt got a few NC, got drafted by the patriots and got a huge contract with Kansas City…

Don't know why people like Leinart, he was awful and had a terrible arm.

You may want to look up career QB stats to see where Carson Palmer ranks. You might be really surprised how high in the stats he ended up.

You're forgetting Keary Colbert. He could hold his own with any of those guys. That one-handed catch in the Rose Bowl said it all. Dude was a stud.

4 in a row

@James Brown Are you trying to say that Colbert did not make that catch in the '04 Rose Bowl? I suggest re-watching that highlight. He was a senior on the team during the '03 season which ended with the Rose Bowl game against Michigan on Jan. 1, 2004. He could have graduated in '03, but he would have been still eligible to play in the '04 Rose Bowl.

@James Brown Yeah, you're right. Colbert would not have been able to play the '04 & '05 seasons. Williams would have, but he declared for the draft just after the '03 season. Both Jarrett and Smith were suitable replacements for Colbert and also Kareem Kelly. And now we have a great tradition of wideouts.

Not against Oregon State beavers. We beat usc twice lol

It still should have been Auburn-USC in the natty though. Auburn won 5 top 25 matchups in the regular season, USC had 3, Oklahoma had 2. Definitely shouldn't have left Auburn out based on that alone. Only 2 top 25 wins for Oklahoma all season? Seroiusly?

I can probably cite you 100 examples of teams who lost to another team in 2003 but then came back to beat that same team in 2004. No two years are alike. I seem to remember that USC was supposed to beat Texas in the BCS title game the following year in 2005. What happened then?

@@chuckwest7045 but typically those teams don't come back even better like usc did

@Ty Calvert "....The SEC was second tier to the PAC-10 without a good Alabama team...." Oh please. The Pac-10 wasn't any better than the SEC in 2004 and it definitely wasn't as good as the SEC in 2003. BTW.....Nick Saban was LSU's coach in 2003.

@@chuckwest7045 WTF are you high? USC never played Texas the year before so your whole statement is BS. USC played Auburn the year before and had a chance to play them again, so where the hell did Texas come from? That was a 1 time event. And USC would have destroyed Auburn Again lmao, That Defense and Reggie and Lendale 1st time in a Championship game.. Yea ok

Alabama still plays a cup cake schedule. They play one decent team at the beginning of the season. Then they play teams like New Mexico State in their other non conference games. And then when it's time to play conference opponents they're playing Texas A&M, Mississippi State, ole miss, Arkansas, etc. That's until they play LSU and auburn (which are like their only tough conference opponents). They don't see Georgia or Florida until the SEC championship. Out of 12 regular season games Alabama will play like 3 ranked teams. Most of which are ranked between #10-25. 4 if you count the SEC championship. So by the time they get to the playoffs they're usually a lot more healthy than the other teams.

@@westcoastnative2523 www.google.com/amp/s/www.si.com/.amp-alabama/college/alabama/the-saban-files/nick-sabans-record-against-ranked-teams-unparalleled

@@westcoastnative2523 You're a moron. I actually respect USC and its tradition but the PAC 10 was trash outside of Cal with Aaron Rodgers and Oregon on occasion back in the Pete Carroll years. Alabama plays in the frickin SEC. There are literally nine top 25 caliber teams. We played Florida State in 2017 when they were top three nationally. As for weak out of conference games, Clemson plays the same weak ass teams and the media never calls them out on it.

Florida State went 6-6 and were never the same when Jamis Winston left. Alabama played Duke, New Mexico, Ole Miss a 7-5 A&M last year. They played 2 good teams.

@@williamjones7589 Florida State was #3 in the nation going into 2017. They were loaded with NFL players. Their QB hurt his knee in that game and was lost for the season. Everything fell apart and Jimbo left. A&M was a good team last year. Their schedule was brutal and that's why they went 7-5. Played Alabama, Auburn, Clemson, Georgia and Clemson. But keep on hating. We keep on winning and the recruits are still flocking to Tuscaloosa in droves.

We FIXIN TO DOMINATE AGAIN

Yep! Fight on!

USC was done when Tebow officially took over.

@@205impalano they weren’t

I don’t necessarily agree that teams “avoided” USC because these kinds of games tend to be scheduled at least 4 or 5 years in advance, sometimes even more.

But Pete Carroll's USC teams from 2002-2008 never beat the SEC champion in any of those seasons. It works both ways.

@@chuckwest7045 the closest thing to that would be when USC massacred Arkansas in 06. They eventually went to the SEC championship game and performed far better against Florida

Completely agree with that imagine building a 53 or 55 man NFL roster out of players from those teams combined. That team would probably be a solid NFL team. You would have an absolutely loaded backfield of guys like Clinton Portis, McGahee, Reggie Bush Frank Gore, Lendale White would be hard to keep all on an NFL size roster.

Uhhhh, no. The best teams ever is the current Alabama dynasty. Any Alabama team over the last 6 years would utterly destroy either of the teams you mentioned.

@@claudelwashington3725 would they?

@@claudelwashington3725 explain

@@Yunggloryy7 For starters the game has changed significantly since then. And another reason is I have two eyes in my head of which both can see. Under Saban Bama now has 6 NC's. Which is more than half than USC has won in their entire existence. Take also into account the introduction of the RPO offenses and not only the USC defense, but not any defense from that era would know how to stop it. And Bama has won more NC's under Saban than Miami has won overall. And I'm not the only one to think this. Alabama under Saban is the greatest college football dynasty of all time. And the 2020/2021 national championship team is the greatest college football team of all time. Absolutely no cupcake games. And the closest any other team came to beating them was Florida and I think that was by 14 points.

Facts

@@wejuggernautentertainmentl3156 Two bad the "dynasty" only lasted 2 years. Try a Bama Dynasty!

@@markskipper2199 lol. Alabama wouldn’t be anything if Saban wasn’t there. Call it the Saban dynasty. Wherever he would have went that team would have won.

@@donaldbrady3850 lol, what a dumb statement, have you ever heard of Bear Bryant? 6 NCs and Saban with 7 NCs, 6 at Bama. Alabama has had impressive runs in the 1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970, 1990s and 2008 until now. To say otherwise shows you don't know college football history. Also, you realize he coached other places with success but not the success he has had at Alabama. It is Saban AT Alabama that has turned him into the greatest coach of all time!

@@graciel2313 he won a championship at LSU. Who hadnt won a title in forever before he got there.

Looks like you're the one with the big mouth to me

@@leebaseball11 It's not bragging if you can back it up! How many Championships in the last 18 years? In history? Would love to hear another war chicken stumble all over themselves!

@@luvlethr typical classy bammer you are.

@@leebaseball11 How does telling the truth and stating facts affect anyone's class? Expected more from even you.

@@luvlethr because there aren't much worse fans then bama fans. Bear said win with class and that has never been a bama fan that I've seen. If the fans emulated the coaches and teams, it would be a very classy organization

If the CFP were around back then they easily 3peat!

From 2002-2008 USC finished in the Top 4 in seven straight seasons. 7 Straight PAC 10 Championships, 7 Straight 11+ Win Seasons, 7 Straight BCS Bowl Appearances, Won 2 National Titles and played for a 3rd, 3 Heisman Trophies, wire-to-wire #1 Ranking, 34 Game win streak, etc.

Until Oregon wins a NC they are not in the conversation of great D-1 football programs. They have cool uniforms though 🤷🏻‍♂️

@@1delta_10tangosexcellent track school .

You can also say after the slow 2-5 start in 2001, after that is when it really got started. USC was in so many close games in Carroll’s first season, they easily could’ve won 9-10 games that year

Yaaa but usc got screwed w the stupid bcs

@@moparjo_9753, who can argue with Don Vito? Your wise counsel is respected in football, and in other matters.

They played weak competition. Good team, but espn hyped this team so much.

@@navynugget7 Hater

@@navynugget7 played Auburn lol. In every post you're riding this team for some reason, even bringing up 95 Nebraska lol

@@stylicho Auburn went 8-5, they weren't good! Yes, I brought up the Huskers of 95, because people think this Trojans dynasty is the greatest of all time and they couldn't be more wrong. Hell, this years Georgia team would've smoked them!

@@navynugget7 No they wouldn't lol they might of smoked the corn suckers though

Only a handful of players compare: Johnny "The Jet" Rodgers, Tim Brown, and OJ

They played weak competition, and were overly hyped by espn. They don't hold a candle to the great 90s teams like fsu, the U, Nebraska, and Florida and the great teams of the playoff era like Bama and LSU.

@Barney Weiss I didn't have to try, its just the truth. They wouldn't beat those teams.

@@navynugget7 o goodness haha. don't even bro. Just enjoy the dynasties and let it go lol. USC was sick.

@@markc2940 sorry pal, just the truth. You clearly never saw those teams. Not saying USC wasn't good, but they're not in the same class as those teams.

@@navynugget7 I have seen those teams. I would put usc against them any day! I guess we will never know until the next life :)

Played basketball for Mater Dei

Really? I don't remember that

He should have stayed for his 2004 season then enter the draft. Felt if he didn't lose his momentum by not playing 2004, felt he would have had a way bettter pro career.

His head was all screwed up. I remember Carol’s first season with Seattle, 08 I believe. Mike Williams LIT my Chicago Bears up! Lmao Made urlacher and the whole defense look foolish! A year later, he was like 220 pounds. Dang, I wish that dude made it.

Actually Arkansas won those games because of forfeit USC went on to lose there championships, heisman trophy , and forfeit all there games they are simply cheaters

Yes, back when they were cheating and recruiting illegally. Exactly, good memory!

@@jeffwatkins4901 that’s like saying a pizza place sells drugs because one dude got caught selling weed delivering pizzas.

2008 defense was the best

Vince Young's knee was down!

Don't forget THE Aaron Rodgers was on those Cal teams with Marshawn

When the media let teams get better rather than go "well, they can't beat Bama so we'll not show their games/put them in the CFP"

@Ty Calvert they have influence with the preseason polls and the polls leading up to week 8 when the committee/computers take over

@Ty Calvert teams do, that's why Clemson and LSU have won But it's rigged for the SEC vs Everyone to be a championship game for the next 20 years

Mckay - not Robinson!

1983-1995. Decade of dominance.

They became a national power beginning in the mid 1960s with tailback Mike Garrett.

Started in the mid-twenties with Howard Jones winning 4 National Championships at USC

S c come back, nd, la col. late 70,early 80??? Those were my own dynasty days! SC ,, rose bowl , dominant every year!! These young boys, emfamil smelling kids, I'm a ol skool, westcaost Triple Dbl o g star. !! Looking for that ticket stub,I have some were.

@@IndianOutlaw1870 old school!! ! That's what I say, oj, and the la ina city local preps, preps from Hawaii too, kamana, mosi t, to much, but whole thing was started by.... olskol sc football. Original DYNASTY SCOD!!! 1st ! Peace

His knee was down!

@@derekdemarco28 I've been saying that since it happened (live) in the game!

He's knee was down just like his I.Q.!

Okay go get us the game footage then

Howard Jones from back in the 1920's

Comes down to coaching bro.

@@peterrodriguez5245 comes down to recruiting, too. They snatch up a lot of these good recruits from the south that literally have one out to get their family out of the shit. These west coast kids just don’t have that mentality.

@@willieb.haardigan8984 yea thats true. It does come down to recruiting too.. But recruits go where they can play and win. So a culture is built by a good coach. Alabama is a prefect example. Bama was towards the bottom of the SEC before Saban got there. Now they've been in the mix for the national title for the last 15 years.

SEC is overrated. Pack was whopping that ass back then. You think you guys would stop the lies.

USC was trash for a long time before this tho lol. That’s like saying the browns were the first NFL dynasty with Jim brown. Don’t mean much these days