page_title: 2005 USC Trojans football team
section_title: Coaching staff
hierarchical_section_title: 2005 USC Trojans football team / Season / Coaching staff
caption_attribution_description: English: Pete Carroll at the USC 2004 National Championship award rally
context_page_description: The 2005 USC Trojans football team represented the University of Southern California in the 2005 NCAA Division I-A football season, winning the Pacific-10 Conference, and playing for the NCAA Division I-A national championship. The team was coached by Pete Carroll, led on offense by quarterback and 2004 Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart, and played their home games in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
  With many of their starters returning, a highly ranked recruiting class, and a number one ranking before the season, the team had high expectations of repeating as national champions as they had nearly all of their offensive starters returning, although they had only two returning defensive starters from the previous year. The team went undefeated in the regular season with nine of their twelve wins by 17 points or more and were compared with the greatest teams in the history of college football. Once again ranked first in the Bowl Championship Series rankings, they were invited to the national championship bowl game at the Rose Bowl, where they lost to the Texas Longhorns.
context_section_description: The Trojan team was coached by Pete Carroll and his staff. Much of the staff from 2004 remained, however, Carroll had to replace three offensive assistants and one defensive assistant.
caption: Head Coach Pete Carroll
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