I neglected to link to Arash’s football column from this past Monday’s Daily Trojan, but it was quite good, as usual. A few highlights:

“God, I hate them,” Williams said. “I hate UCLA. That’s what this is about.”

It’s about USC turning what used to be one of the most storied rivalries in college football into one the biggest mismatches on its schedule.

This game has turned into more of an annual revelry for the Trojans than a rivalry. For a rivalry to be possible, both teams have to bring something to the table. In this collaboration, UCLA has become the Garfunkel to USC’s Simon, the Sonny to its Cher, the Marty Jannetty to its Shawn Michaels.

UCLA has become a dead weight that USC has to carry on its back for one week each year for publicity purposes only, with the Bruins receiving more attention than its second-rate program and players deserve. There hasn’t been this kind of hype surrounding an expected execution since the Middle Ages. …

The measure of USC’s dominance over UCLA in the last two years can be summed up in the Trojans’ greed when looking at the final scoreboard. It actually kills many USC fans that last year’s final score was 52-21, and not 52-7, and that this year’s final was 47-22 and not 47-9. [Ed.: That’s so true.] …

If it means anything to the Trojan faithful, UCLA fans take little solace in the fact that USC has outscored UCLA, 126-43, in the last three years under Pete Carroll and beaten them five straight times for the first time in school history.

“Hopefully we’ll be smacking them around long after I’m gone,” said Williams, who finished the game with 11 catches for 181 yards and two touchdowns � all in the first half. “I really don’t like them at all. Every chance we get, I don’t care if it’s hopscotch, I want to beat them.”

The Bruins probably wish there was a hopscotch game coming up so they could somehow redeem themselves, but judging from the Bruins’ performances this week in rivalry games, they probably would have lost that matchup as well. In addition to being demolished at the Coliseum by the second-ranked Trojans, UCLA was defeated by USC’s No. 1 women’s volleyball team, No. 1 men’s water polo team and No. 3 club ice hockey team. The Daily Trojan even did its part, humbling the Daily Bruin, 48-26, in a flag football game on the UCLA campus Friday afternoon.

If this kind of domination continues, the Bruins are in danger of developing an inferiority complex larger than Canada and deeper than Jan Brady’s.

Hehehe. Read the whole thing, as they say.

By the way, here’s the DT’s front-page story, its lead sports-section story, its game analysis, and its BCS analysis. Oh, and let’s not forget the post-game frat-party police story. Heh.

Also, here is a PDF file of the DT’s front page from Monday. Headline: “Victory is Sugar-sweet.”