A USC staffer knocked on the hotel room door of running back Stephen Carr at 10 p.m. Friday night to make a bed check. Carr reported in, went to his mattress and promptly fell asleep.
"I slept pretty good,” Carr said with a shrug.
The first start of the freshman running back’s career would come on the road the next day, on Saturday against California. He did not seem bothered by the prospect.
Without Ronald Jones II, who remained in Los Angeles with a thigh contusion, Carr carried the load against the Bears, and that, apparently, did not bother him either.