April 2008 - Posts
Nearly seven months after it occurred, USC’s loss to Stanford got even more amazing on Saturday.
A new addition to the legendary tale about the 41-point underdog Cardinal, playing without their starting quarterback and ending the Trojans’ 35-game home winning streak at the Coliseum, is that there were four NFL first-rounders on the field for USC that night.
Stanford, trying to merely find its way under new head coach Jim Harbaugh, had none. That, of course, shouldn’t be a surprise. “The Farm” has produced only five first-round picks since 1983, when John Elway was the first overall selection, and only one since 1993 (tackle Kwame Harris in 2003).
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