It is bad that the Pac-12 has died. USC playing Oregon, Washington and Utah is fun and interesting. So many of us who are fans of USC and fans of college football grew up with these West Coast rivalries and the familiar regional matchups against particular opponents.
Going to Corvallis to play Oregon State is regularly a challenge for USC.
Going to Seattle to play the Washington Huskies often felt like a main event for the Trojans going back to the late 1970s against Don James’ teams.
USC’s comeback win over Arizona State in 2005 is one of the most memorable games of the Pete Carroll era.
USC’s close win over Stanford in 2004 kept that perfect season alive.
We’re going to miss the Pac-12 in terms of the football memories and the Saturday nights against schools who might have hated the Trojans, but certainly enjoyed the challenge of playing USC as a fellow Western institution. We didn’t wish the Pac-12 died, but we — as USC bloggers at Trojans Wire — have expressed solidarity with USC fans who saw how amateurish and unprofessional the Pac-12 CEO Group was. Decisions were made that did not serve USC’s and the conference’s best interests, as everyone else in America now understands on a deeper level.
We all wished the Pac-12 made good decisions, but it didn’t. That’s why USC and its fans wanted to leave for the Big Ten.
In this final Pac-12 football season, USC fans can remind everyone else how bad this conference’s leadership truly was over the past several years. Just look at the Week 0 football schedule as a example: