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USC beat a hasty retreat Saturday night, rushing off Autzen Stadium just ahead of the flood of Oregon fans storming the field to dance through the rubble of a fallen empire.

Oregon toppled the Trojan empire, the greatest dynasty in Pac-10 football history and arguably college football’s most successful program this decade, with 47-20 pounding that might have been even more one-sided than the score suggests.

There was a seismic shift in the Pac-10 Saturday night that tilted the power north and left the Trojan program reeling.

A few moments past 8:30 p.m. it was official: USC is no longer the leader of the Pac, no longer the conference’s premier program, no longer a BCS team.

For the fourth straight year, USC lost any chance at a national championship in the Willamette Valley. But perhaps more devastating to the Trojans in the long term is how Oregon convincingly stripped USC of its aura invincibility and intimidation, no matter how many cheap shots Taylor Mays takes.

Oregon did to USC what the Trojans had done to the rest of the conference for years: completely dominated them. The Trojans were outplayed, out coached, outsmarted. This wasn’t some fluke like Stanford’s 2007 upset at the Coliseum. This wasn’t Oregon State’s Mike Riley out coaching Pete Carroll once again. This wasn’t USC, looking ahead, falling into a trap game. This was Oregon embarrassing the Trojans in college football’s biggest game of the day. This was Oregon, with the nation’s eyes finally on the Pac-10, exposing the Trojans on play after play.

The holes that were apparent in close calls against Notre Dame and Oregon State were blown wide open by an Oregon squad with better talent than the Trojans. In the last two weeks, USC’s defense has been rolled over to the tune of 1,042 yards, 613 of it coming in Eugene.

A week ago, Oregon State quarterback Sean Canfield sliced up the Trojans for 329 yards and three touchdowns. Saturday night the Ducks simply ran over USC. A Trojan defense that had been allowing 79.9 yards per game rushing prior to Saturday gave up 391 yards on the ground to the Ducks.

Oregon tailback LaMichael James blew through a Trojan defense that is still checking itself for cleat marks to the tune of 185 yards. USC were equally inept at containing Ducks quarterback Jeremiah Masoli, who broke for free for 165 yards on 13 carries. That’s a 12.7 yards per average.

In the past three games, USC opponents are averaging 469 yards total offense.

Perhaps the only thing in more of a shambles than the Trojan defense is Carroll’s once deserved reputation as the master of second half adjustments. USC has been outscored 70-45 in the second half the last three weeks, 50-24 the last two. Not exactly the stuff of genius.

Truth be told, despite the betting line, Saturday night should have been obvious for weeks. USC is a series of Ohio State coaching mistakes and a couple of boneheaded Oregon State penalties and a Damian Williams punt return away from being 4-4.

The differences between the Oregon and USC programs were glaring. The Ducks had the hip, cool, daring coach. The Ducks had the better talent. Oregon was better at quarterback, better on the offensive front, and even with LeGarrette Blount suspended for at least a few more days, the Ducks have two tailbacks better than anyone at Tailback U.

So while USC fans began making their Holiday Bowl plans, Oregon celebrated well into the Halloween night, dancing through what was left of the Trojan empire, dancing just as a Duck program on the rise had left USC, in the dust.

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