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Cody Kessler has had to be patient in his two years at USC. But now the sophomore has a shot to accomplish his goal of being USC's starting quarterback.

EL PASO, Texas -- The USC Trojans will close out 2012 in a New Year's Eve matinee tilt against Georgia Tech in Monday's Hyundai Sun Bowl. And they'll be without quarterback Matt Barkley because of a sprained shoulder the senior signal-caller suff...

Instant analysis from USC's 38-28 win over the Utes in Salt Lake City, Utah: Player of the game: Matt Barkley This was the best overall performance of the year for the Trojans quarterback. It started with a rough beginning -- he got stripped of ...

"With the Trojans at the bye week, give your three biggest story lines from what we've seen so far this year." Garry Paskwietz 1. Status of USC passing game: Coming into the season, it was expected that the combination of quarterback Matt Barkley...

LOS ANGELES -- After USC beat Cal 30-9 last year in San Francisco, former Trojans linebacker Chris Galippo memorably said that Bears quarterback Zach Maynard "just telegraphed the heck out of his passes" while throwing three interceptions and playing...

USC quarterback Matt Barkley, receiver Robert Woods and safety T.J. McDonald were named to the Walter Camp Player of the Year watch list on Friday, capping off a two-week stretch of announcements that saw several Trojans got nominated. Three schoo...

USC quarterback Matt Barkley was named to the Davey O'Brien Award watch list on Wednesday for the third consecutive season. The O'Brien goes to the nation's top quarterback each year. Barkley, now a senior and one of the favorites to win the award...

Pedro Moura/ESPNLA.com 16-year-old quarterback David Sills committed to USC in February 2010 and plans on honoring that commitment when he gets to college in the fall of 2015. He's finishing his freshman year of high school. SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -...

Cody Kessler remembers it well. The week of the Notre Dame game last year, USC's No. 2 quarterback in 2011 was warming up on Howard Jones Field before an early-morning practice when Matt Barkley came up to him, unprompted, and asked him a question...

At the outset of this year, we knew USC quarterback Matt Barkley would have a big decision to make at the end of the season. We knew he'd be staring at a potential high selection in April's NFL draft and weighing that against the possibility of the T...

At the outset of this year, we knew USC quarterback Matt Barkley was going to have a big decision to make come the end of the season. We knew he'd be staring at a potential high selection in next April's NFL draft and weighing that against the poss...

Gary A. Vasquez/US Presswire Matt Barkley put an exclamation point on his Heisman Trophy campaign by completing 35 of 42 passes for 423 yards and six touchdowns against crosstown rival UCLA. The chants of "One more year!" for USC quarterback Matt B...

In a weekly feature from last year we're bringing back back again for the 2011 season, here are two funny and informative videos from the three days of prep for Utah that didn't make it into any of our posts this week: First is junior quarterback ...

Matt Barkley, USC's junior quarterback and biggest national name, had a good season last year, completing almost 63 percent of his passes for 2800 yards, 26 touchdowns and 12 interceptions as a true sophomore in the Pac-10. But, in retrospect, tha...

We wrote yesterday of Matt Barkley's growing frustration as a quarterback, with the junior signal-caller singling out his teammates during Tuesday's practice and again in speaking to the media after the early-morning session. USC's second-year qua...

Former USC quarterback Mitch Mustain made the news -- maybe the biggest news he made in four years in the Trojans' program -- on national signing day last month when he was arrested on a felony narcotics charge of selling prescription drugs. But h...