USC WR JuJu Smith-Schuster Injured, Leaves UCLA Game

USC’s road victory last week over then-No.

USC and UCLA have played each other 85 times in this revved-up rivalry game.

UCLA: The Bruins have endured a miserable second half after quarterback Josh Rosen’s season-ending injuries, but the defense has fought in every game.

Helton also improved to 2-0 in the crosstown showdown: He got the permanent job previous year two days after the Trojans’ 40-21 victory over the Bruins and Mora, who had won his first three against USC.

In the first six victories, it trailed only twice – by three points to Arizona State and Washington.

USC’s redshirt freshman quarterback Sam Darnold is now 1-0 in his budding career.

“It’s nice, but we haven’t finished it off yet”, Baron said.

Darnold has had the advantage of a supporting run game – Ronald Jones II has 487 yards on the ground in the past three games – an All-American talent at wide receiver in junior JuJu Smith-Schuster and a veteran offensive line that has begun to play to its potential. All in all, a tough offense, on current form, to slow down.

Four teams remain possible Pac-12 championship game participants: No. 6 Washington, No. 10 Colorado, No. 13 USC and No. 22 Washington State, according to last week’s rankings.

In comparison, the Bruins limp in. The Bruins went 70 yards on four plays. That also includes Porter Gustin, who moved from outside linebacker in Justin Wilcox’s defense a season ago, to defensive end under Clancy Pendergast. The sophomore’s disruptive play has been a major recent boost to the Trojans’ defense, culminating in two sacks last week in their upset of Washington. The loss was only the fourth in 59 games for USC during that dominant stretch. “We’d have a chance to go out on that field and create competition in practice, we’d have a chance to create some periods where we could work in some of the guys who are redshirting as freshmen and really get them good, quality repetitions as we get ready to go into winter and then spring”.

Five wide receivers pitch-in to try to get the UCLA passing game going.

The UCLA offense has received a lift from Darren Andrews. “When they’re coming in, they’re coming in hard and you better be ready”. The Trojans took down the Bruins in Los Angeles, 40-21. The college football odds for the game have the Trojans favored by a couple of scores to pick up the win here.

Defensively? Well, the Bruins have been okay, holding all their opponents bar Utah to 27 points or less in regulation.

“Rather than to be chastised and brought down because of the record, they deserve a lot of praise for what they’ve done over the years here”, Mora said. “Winning like this, it’s great for our team morale”. The Trojans would need help from a Colorado loss to reach the Pac-12 title game, but their fans are already looking forward to a full season with Darnold in charge in 2017. But these rivalry games are unusual beasts – anything can and probably will happen!