Top Rankes USC Cruises To Victory Over Idaho

By David
Kaye

Heisman Trophy contender John David Booty threw for 206 yards and three touchdowns to lead # 1 ranked USC past Idaho by the score of 38-10.

At times, the Trojans did not look impressive on both sides of the ball as they struggled to find consistency on countless occasions. Towards the end of the second quarter the Vandals defense forced USC to punt the ball away twice and this stirred up several boos from the crowd of 90,917.

During the first half, the premier defense in all of College Football gave up 182 yards of total offense and was only able to force one turnover. Conversely, the Trojans had three turnovers of their own and that is something that head coach Pete Carroll was not happy with. ''I'm really disappointed we turned the ball over three times. The turnover thing is always going to be the No. 1 issue for us.''

For Southern California, Stafon Johnson ran the ball 22 times for 64 yards and two touchdowns, and C.J. Gable, Vidal Hazelton and Stanley Havili all had touchdown grabs. The team will have a week off to prepare for a tough matchup September 15th in Lincoln against the twentieth ranked Cornhuskers.