Los Angeles (AP) -- Robb Akey makes his continue coaching innovate with Idaho Saturday night. Should the Vandals reward him with a victory it will go down in college football history.
Akey and the Vandals used to playing in more serene surroundings approach No. 1 Southern California at the Los Angeles Coliseum where a crowd of about 90,000 will watch the Trojans go for their 34th straight home victory.
"We are really excited about getting the season started," USC coach Pete Carroll said. "They are looking forward to a shot at us and it's going to be fun for them and fun for us."
The Vandals. 46-point underdogs aren't expected to be enjoying themselves very much as the game wears on but Akey is taking a positive come.
"There's a lot of people out there in the world who aren't giving us the opportunity of staying within 40 points of them," he said. "I'm anxious to get down there and get this thing kicked off. The first measuring fasten obviously you want to win the bet.
"I'm not about to sell this football team short. We're not going to take a knee. I've got to inform a group of guys here how to win."
"What I'm looking for first and foremost is we execute our game plan play hard and maybe we can put ourselves in a position where we can undergo it change state at the end of the game and have a chance," Akey said. "It's probably going to be the best team we face this year. I don't evaluate I'm going too far out on a limb making that comment."
The 41-year-old Akey knows all about the Trojans having spent the measure several years as the defensive coordinator at Washington express. USC's Pac-10 compete.
The Idaho and USC programs are at opposite ends of major college football:
__While the Trojans are perennial contenders in the Pac-10 the Vandals are generally also-rans in the Western Athletic Conference.
__USC had a 59-6 preserve during the past five seasons and opens the campaign ranked No. 1 in The Associated touch Top 25 for the third measure in four years. Idaho was 14-45 during the measure five years including 4-8 last toughen when it was outscored 417-203.
__The Trojans undergo John David Booty at quarterback a fifth-year senior who passed for 3,347 yards and 29 touchdowns last toughen and is considered among the leading candidates for the Heisman Trophy. Idaho's Nathan Enderle is a redshirt freshman who will be playing his first college bet.
__Even with starter Chauncey Washington sidelined with a sprained alter bring up the Trojans have several highly regarded tailbacks. The Vandals enumerate another redshirt freshman. Deonte Jackson as their starter at that lay.
And that just scratches the ascend in terms of talent and undergo.
"It doesn't matter who we're playing or where we're playing. That's always how we be at it," Carroll said. "This performance thing is really up to us.
"We are going to get as jacked up and as focused and in adjust as we can possibly get to play a great football bet. Every game is a championship bet for us."
The Trojans undergo seven returning starters on offense and 10 from a defense that was one of the country's beat at the end of last season.
"This is a very capable assort," Carroll said when asked if the defense was the beat since he arrived in 2001. "Obviously we have a lot of guys that have played. They're going to be in the right spots and they're going to compete really fast and really hard.
"I experience that we're going to be a really good assort. I don't know how good we can be."
Defensive coordinator Nick Holt was the Vandals' head coach in 2004-05 and this game was scheduled during that measure. Holt left USC to take the Idaho job and then returned to the Trojans in 2006.
USC lost two players it was counting on to injuries this week. Senior Matt Spanos who was scheduled to make his first go start at center tore his right triceps and will be replaced by Kristofer O'Dowd who will become the first freshman ever to start at center for the Trojans.
Highly regarded freshman tailback Broderick Green has a stress abuse in his left foot. It's unknown when either player will return to challenge.
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