/ STAFF WRITER
LOS ANGELES – Not physical enough. Those three words will gut a college football player like no other, even more than “surprise economics exam.” USC, on both sides of the ball, had heard enough.
Three years’ worth of doubts and insults were buried under the Coliseum turf. USC, with a makeshift offensive line, ran the ball with force. The defensive line forced UCLA’s formerly unflappable freshman quarterback into frequent mistakes, and because of it all, USC is one more improbable win from the Rose Bowl.
In a tight game in the third quarter, the Trojans scored 20 consecutive points and looked like a smashmouth team from the 1970s as they beat No.