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USC ready to bounce back at Stanford

By Ted Miller
Special to ESPN.com

Thursday, November 2, 2006

So this is what losing feels like? Consider that USC's third-year players hadn't experienced a regular season loss during their careers until the 33-31 defeat at Oregon State. Most fourth-year players only vaguely recalled the triple-overtime loss to California in September of 2003. Of course, coach Pete Carroll wasn't ready to get spiritual and ponder the experience of his first regular season failure in 41 games. "We're certainly not going to be sitting around kicking the ground," he said. & ...

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