Same game. Different year.
Stop me if you've heard this before.
- Cal defense plays decently well enough against USC to give the Cal offense a chance to win it.
- Cal offense wastes it.
- Cal special teams pours salt in the wound.
- Cal loses to USC.
The good news was that it wasn't a rout this time. Cal played well for the first time in years against USC and had legitimate chances to win this game. But in the end the result was the same--a comfortable wire-to-wire second half lead for the Trojans where they led by multiple scores most of the way.