Inside the Trojans' Huddle: No. 12 USC survives Rutgers 42-35, Trojans feeling pressure against No. 20 Oregon

Gentlemen and listener, if you listened to last week's show, we kind of joked at the end like A loss to Rutgers on the road would be a disastrous thing, but do great for our numbers on this show.

Well, that kind of almost happened over the weekend.

Obviously, USC's performance in New Jersey wasn't the most inspiring to USC fans and a lot of people.

42-35 over Rutgers, which is, as you know, one of the worst teams in the Big Ten and looking like one of the worst teams in the country overall.

so not a pretty win nonetheless, an ugly win, but a win nonetheless for USC to move to 4-0 on the season.

Obviously, it was Scott and me in New Jersey, so we talked about that win after.

You can watch that inside the walls of Troy up on our YouTube channel, but I did not get... my man Malkin's thoughts yet, or the Statesman Greg Katz.

Guys, we drew straws to see who was going to go first, and it's going to be Greg Katz.

Greg, what is your reaction to this recent ugly USC win?

Well, I think you hit the nail on the head saying ugly.

You know, I think the point was we all expected, and hopefully we got a win.

That was good, of course.

But there was a lot of stuff that came up that I think in the back of our minds, we were afraid, don't show what we don't want to see.

And we saw what we didn't want to see in so many areas that I think after the game, I think everyone almost, you won, but you felt like you lost a lot.

You lost a lot of confidence, a lot of credibility, a lot of everything.

And it provided... for shows like this, a lot more questions to discuss.

And I think that knowing each of you and I know we're going to hear exactly what you think.

And I think the listeners need to hear what we're going to say.

You know, we all have our different personalities.

We all have our different way of presenting things, but The reality is it didn't give you a lot of confidence, at least for me, heading into this game.

I have written about it already.

I said this was the game of the year based on what was at stake.

And it's going to be.

I mean, it's going to be something that's going to answer a lot of questions in all probability.

And it could either be a really exciting victory or it could be a beginning of a road that's going to be something that you just are afraid or said to yourself, I knew this was going to happen.