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SOUTH BEND, IN – OCTOBER 17: JuJu Smith-Schuster #9 of the USC Trojans makes a 37-yard reception for a first down against KeiVarae Russell #6 of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish in the first quarter of the game at Notre Dame Stadium on October 17, 2015 in South Bend, Indiana. (Photo by Joe Robbins/Getty Images)

USC, a talented tease, can’t stay the course against Notre Dame

0 comments by on 10/18/2015

We start this story with a general point about the way in which teams lose. Many fans would rather see their teams lose big than lose by one point in the final seconds. Some fans would have it the other way. I have my own view, and you have yours, and where you stand is […]

Lane Kiffin, buses, and bad defense: USC faces some familiar demons in Tempe

0 comments by on 9/24/2015

See the cover image for this story, above? It’s a bus. Two years ago, USC athletic director Pat Haden pulled a man named Lane Kiffin — whom you heard absolutely NOTHING about on Thursday (wink, wink) — off a bus at Los Angeles International Airport and fired him before he got to the school’s campus. […]

Sark sweats, Shaw soars: What Stanford-USC meant to two coaches

0 comments by on 9/20/2015

Precisely because the Stanford Cardinal struggled so profoundly in their week-one loss to Northwestern, Saturday night’s game against the USC Trojans did not acquire the centrality it figured to own before the season began. The fact that Stanford got knocked off by Northwestern was not overwhelmingly surprising; the shock value in that game flowed from […]

College Football 2015: Which assistant coaches assist the most?

0 comments by on 8/31/2015

Fans, bloggers, pundits — all of us — easily recognize head coaches. On a national level — beyond the realm of the local beat writer or the team-specific specialist — the people who cover college football from a distance will more immediately identify the face of a head coach than the face of an assistant. […]

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