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ARLINGTON, Texas -- Top-ranked Alabama has never lost an opener under Nick Saban. And the Crimson Tides last two national championships, including a season ago, started at the home of the NFLs Dallas Cowboys.Maybe Crimson Tide fans should go ahead and make plans for Tampa in January for the next College Football Playoff title game. Many of them probably already have even before the start of Sabans 10th season.Alabama opens Saturday night at AT&T Stadium against 20th-ranked Southern California, which is facing an SEC team for the first time in 10 years.It is the seventh of Sabans openers to be played in a neutral site against team from another Power Five conference -- the Tide have won all of those first six at least double figures. That includes beating Michigan in 2012 and Wisconsin last September in the stadium where they also won the CFP semifinal in the Cotton Bowl last New Years Eve.Well, Id rather play here in Tuscaloosa, Saban said this week on campus. The issue is getting people to play you in Tuscaloosa that are quality opponents, and then when you do home-and-home. That means next year wed have to play in California. So next year we wouldnt make any money, this year we would. This is a business decision but its also a program decision in the tremendous amount of exposure, when you play a quality opponent like USC.The Tide have won four national titles under Saban. The first was in 2008, when the Trojans won their last Pac-12 title.USC has seven wins in its history against No. 1 teams, but the last was in 1984.What an unbelievable opportunity. You look at the sacrifices this team made, the things its gone through to get here, and you cant help being excited about it, said Clay Helton, who goes into his first game of his first season as the Trojans permanent coach. Thats why you come to SC. If you dont like the challenge, you dont take the job.Some other things to know when Alabama and USC go head-to-head for the first time since 1985:NEW QBS: USCs Max Browne has won the job to replace Cody Kessler but has attempted only 19 passes in nine games. Alabamas starter is a mystery, either junior Cooper Bateman or redshirt freshman Blake Barnett. If Saban has picked a guy, he isnt saying -- just like the past two years when Blake Sims and then Jake Coker claimed the jobs through game performances.KIFFINS OLD TEAM: Tide offensive coordinator Lane Kiffin is plenty familiar with the Trojans, having coached 19 members of the USC team. Hes a former USC head coach and assistant. It wont be about me, just like it wasnt about me when we were at Tennessee, Kiffin said early in preseason camp. Its not about coach when we go to LSU. Its about our players playing really well. All we can do is put our players in the best position to win.NEW BUT FAMILIAR: New Trojans head coach Clay Helton has been on their staff since 2010. There is also a new offensive coordinator (Tee Martin) and new defensive coordinator (Clancy Pendergast), and like Helton, neither are strangers at USC. Martin has been on staff there since 2012, and Pendergast was previously the Trojans defensive coordinator in 2013, before returning to the NFL the past two seasons.PROLIFIC RECEIVERS: If the quarterbacks are unproven, their top targets are pretty obvious. USCs Browne has JuJu Smith-Schuster, who flirted with 1,500 receiving yards and has impressed Saban all the way around. A bigtime guy, the coach said. Kind of a Dez Bryant-type of receiver, and hes certainly going to be a challenge for us to guard. Alabama counters with Calvin Ridley, who emerged as one of the SECs best as a freshman. 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Josh Brillante is content to keep plugging away in Sydney FCs midfield - until the next time he gets a crack at goal from distance.Until Saturday night Brillantes professional career read six years, six clubs, about 100 appearances, zero goals.He could hardly have altered that last statistic with more pizzazz at Suncorp Stadium, taking advantage of Brisbanes first-half sloppiness to barrel home a 20-metre strike that proved unstoppable even for man of the match Michael Theo.The expertly taken finish belied Brillantes apparent lack of taste for the back of the net.Yet the Bundaberg-born 23-year-old described it as my type of goal from his ideal shooting range, and the perfect platform on which to build another element of his game.Im quite happy to get the monkey off the back, now hopefully I can pull a few more out of the bag. Brillante told AAP.My position is not a position you really expect to be scoring all the time, but its something I want to add to my game and definitely I think I can do that.Because if youre a midfielder who can score goals its definitely a big positive.Until the net beckons again, hes more than happy to continue making inroads in a vital buut largely unsung role.ddddddddddddrillantes central pairing with Brandon ONeill has added enviable balance to Sydneys squad, their positional discipline and strong distribution helping the team tick all the way up the pitch.Thats part and parcel of being a midfielder, he said.Working away and giving help to the defenders and a bit of support to the attack, he said.Im not too fussed. I just do what I can for the team.While Thomas Kristensens second-half equaliser for the Roar forced runaway A-League leaders Sydney to drop their first points of the season, the Sky Blues display will further boost confidence before hosting winless Adelaide this Saturday.For Brillante, just playing regularly in a successful team has been a revelation following two well-documented turbulent years in Italy with Fiorentina.That was an important thing I wanted to bring back because it was so frustrating that I wasnt playing much - it was hard to enjoy it, he said.At the moment Im enjoying the way were playing and being on the pitch. Thats a huge thing for me. ' ' '