- Pac-10 home games: The Trojans can have only 64 players at the team hotel on Friday night and Saturday leading up to a home game. All players suit up for the game regardless of whether they're on the 64-man travel roster or not. Players who do not make the roster take a bus from campus to the hotel prior to the game and then join the caravan from the hotel to the Coliseum for the Trojan Walk.
- Pac-10 road games: Only 64 players can travel, stay in the team hotel and suit up for in-conference away games -- except for the UCLA game, during which every player can suit up (but only 64 stay in the hotel the night before the game).
- Non-conference games: The Trojans don't face any restrictions, so for out-of-conference games, they usually put 85-90 players on the travel squad. For home games, upwards of 90 players stay at the team hotel on Friday night, and for road games, the Trojans are only limited by the number of seats on their charter flight, as Coach Carroll likes to joke. Injured players and a handful of freshmen typically do not make the non-conference travel roster. Like Pac-10 home games, all players can suit up for out-of-conference contests at the Coliseum.
Explaining the travel roster
Explaining the travel roster
RipsIt reader Zach Kelly e-mailed in asking about travel rosters and how they apply to home and road games, both in conference and out of conference. Here's the full explanation:
