LOS ANGELES (AP) While Toby Gerhart rampaged through the Southern California defense in an awfully quiet Coliseum, the star tailback and his Cardinal teammates flattened a bunch of recent college football certainties as well.
USC's streaks of seven straight BCS bowls, 11-win seasons and top-four AP poll finishes? Those are all finished.
The Trojans' Pac-10 dominance over the past seven years? It's all but over after Stanford paved the way for a new West Coast champion. (MORE)