2011-12 Schedule
| Date |
Opponent |
Result |
| 9/3 |
vs. Minnesota |
W 19-17 |
| 9/10 |
vs. Utah |
W 23-14 |
| 9/17 |
vs. Syracuse |
W 38-17 |
| 9/24 |
at Arizona State |
L 22-43 |
| 10/1 |
vs. Arizona |
W 48-41 |
| 10/8 |
Open |
|
| 10/13 |
at California |
W 30-9 |
| 10/22 |
at Notre Dame |
W 31-17 |
| 10/29 |
vs. Stanford |
L 48-56 3OT |
| 11/4 |
at Colorado |
W 42-17 |
| 11/12 |
vs. Washington |
|
| 11/19 |
at Oregon |
W 38-35
|
| 11/26 |
vs. UCLA |
W 50-0 |
| 12/2 |
Pac-12 Championship |
|
CAREER: He ranks seventh on USC's career kickoff return list (971 yards).
2011: Just a sophomore, the exciting Woods figures to be one of the nation's premier wide receivers and returner in 2011.
2010: Woods had a phenomenal showing as a wide receiver and kickoff returner as just a first-year freshman in 2010. Overall in 2010 while starting all 13 games, he had a team-best 65 receptions for 792 yards (12.2 avg.) with 6 TDs, plus he gained 50 yards on 6 carries (8.3 avg.) and returned 38 kickoffs for 971 yards (25.6 avg.) with 1 TD, had a punt return for 4 yards and made a tackle. He was 25th nationally in all-purpose running (139.8, second in Pac-10). His 65 catches in 2010 was 14th on the USC season list. His 971 kickoff returns yards and 38 kickoff returns in 2010 are USC season records. His 1,817 all-purpose yards is a USC freshman season record. He was the 2010 Pac-10 Offensive Freshman of the Year and made the 2010 Football Writers Freshman All-American first team (as a wide receiver), Sporting News Freshman All-American first team (as a wide receiver), Rivals.com Freshman All-American first team (as a wide receiver), Collegefootballnews.com Freshman All-American first team (as a wide receiver), Phil Steele Freshman All-American first team (as a wide receiver) and fourth team (as a kick returner), All-Pac-10 first team (as a kick returner) and honorable mention (as a wide receiver), as well as Sporting News Pac-10 Freshman of the Year, Scout.com Pac-10 Freshman of the Year and All-Pac-10 second team (as an all-purpose player), ESPN.com All-Pac-10 first team (as a kick returner) and Phil Steele All-Pac-10 first team (as a kick returner) and third team (as a wide receiver). He also won USC's Bob Chandler Award and John McKay Award.
He became the first USC true freshman to start a season opener at wide receiver in the post-World War II era when he did so at Hawaii, getting 4 catches for 46 yards along with 6 kickoff returns for 96 yards. He added 3 receptions for 64 yards and 2 kickoff returns for 35 yards against Virginia. He caught a team-best 4 passes for 33 yards against Minnesota and had 2 kickoff returns for 122 yards (including a 97-yard scoring runback to jumpstart USC, the longest kick return by a Trojan since Chad Morton went 98 yards for a TD against Purdue in 1998 and the first scoring kickoff return by a USC freshman since Reggie Bush did so against UCLA in 2003). He had 2 catches for 32 yards (with an 11-yard TD) and returned a kickoff 11 yards and a punt 4 yards at Washington State. He had 6 kickoff returns for 163 yards (including a 56-yarder to set up a USC touchdown) and a tackle against Washington. At Stanford, he had 12 catches (tied for fifth most in a game by a Trojan and 1 shy of the USC freshman game record) for 224 yards (the fifth highest game total by a Trojan, just 36 yards shy of the school record) with 3 touchdowns (including a 61-yarder) to tie the USC game record for TD catches as he earned College Football Performance Awards National Wide Receiver of the Week honors and he added 86 yards on 3 kickoff returns (and 0 yards on a rush) to total 310 all-purpose yards. He then had 7 receptions for 116 yards and 2 TDs (16 and 9 yards) against California to become the first USC true freshman to have back-to-back 100-yard receiving games since Dwayne Jarrett did so in 2004, plus he had 2 runs for 25 yards and returned a kickoff 25 yards. He had 259 all-purpose yards against Oregon (200 on 8 kickoff returns and 59 on a USC-best 7 receptions). He had 3 catches for 18 yards against Arizona State, then had a game-best 8 receptions for 41 yards, returned 3 kickoffs for 64 yards and had a 5-yard run off a lateral against Arizona. He had 3 catches for 15 yards, 2 rushes for 20 yards and 2 kickoff returns for 68 yards at Oregon State. He had 166 all-purpose yards (87 on a team-best 9 receptions and 79 on 3 kickoff returns) against Notre Dame, then added 3 catches for 57 yards and had a 23-yard kickoff return at UCLA.
HIGH SCHOOL: His 2009 honors included USA Today All-USA first team, Parade All-American, EA Sports All-American first team, Super Prep All-American, Prep Star All-American, Scout.com All-American first team, Max Preps All-American first team, Max Preps All-American Medium Schools first team, Sporting News Top 100, Super Prep Elite 50, Prep Star Dream Team, Super Prep All-Farwest, Prep Star All-West, Orange County Register Fab 15 first team, Long Beach Press-Telegram Best in the West first team, Tacoma News Tribune Western 100, Cal-Hi Sports All-State first team, Max Preps All-State Division III first team, All-CIF Northwest Division Defensive MVP, Los Angeles Times All-Star Back of the Year, South Bay Daily Breeze All-South Bay Player of the Year and All-Del Rey League MVP as a senior wide receiver and defensive back at Serra High in Gardena (Calif.). He had 66 receptions for 1,112 yards (16.8 avg.) with 15 TDs on offense and had 96 tackles and 8 interceptions (2 for TDs) on defense in 2009. Serra went 15-0 in 2009 and won the CIF Northwest Division title and the California state Division III championship (he had 226 all-purpose yards in the state final game).
As a junior in 2008, he made Cal-Hi Sports All-State, Cal-Hi Sports All-State Medium School first team, Cal-Hi Sports All-State Underclass first team, All-CIF Northwest Division Co-Defensive MVP, Rivals.com All-Southern Section first team, South Bay Daily Breeze All-South Bay Player of the Year and All-Del Rey League MVP. He had 81 receptions for 1,378 yards (17.0 avg.) with 19 TDs on offense, had 87 tackles and 7 interceptions (2 returned for TDs) on defense and returned 5 kickoffs and 2 punts for touchdowns in 2008. Serra was a CIF Northwest Division finalist in 2008.
As a sophomore in 2007, he made Cal-Hi Sports All-State Sophomore first team, All-CIF Northwest Division first team, South Bay Daily Breeze All-South Bay first team and All-Del Rey League Defensive MVP. He had 45 receptions for 801 yards (17.8 avg.) with 12 TDs along with 273 rushing yards on offense and had 81 tackles and 9 interceptions on defense in 2007. Current Trojan DaJohn Harris and incoming Trojans George Farmer and Marqise Lee also prepped at Serra.
He also was on Serra's track team, where he finished third in the 2009 California state 400 meters and anchored the 2009 state champion 400-meter relay team. In 2010, he won the CIF Division IV 200- and 400-meter races and ran on the winning 1,600-meter relay team. At the 2010 California state meet, he was second in the 400, third in the 200 and anchored the winning 1,600-meter relay team. He was the 2009 and 2010 South Bay Daily Breeze All-South Bay Track Athlete of the Year. He has bests of 21.01 in the 200 (fourth fastest in the nation in 2010) and 46.17 in the 400 (second fastest in the nation in 2010), plus a 45.8 split in the 1,600-meter relay. In 2010, he ran on relay teams that clocked a national-best 40.66 in the 400-meter relay and a state meet-record 3:08.42 in the 1,600-meter relay. He was the 2009-10 Cal-Hi Sports Boys State Athlete of the Year after being named 2008-09 Cal-Hi Sports Division IV Boys State Athlete of the Year.
PERSONAL: His father and grandfather (both also named Robert) played football at Grambling.
