In three of the past four football meetings between Utah and USC, a mere yard decided the game. The Ute secondary's challenge Saturday night is to keep the Trojans from gaining yards in bunches.
The Pac-12 South’s best series of this decade will be renewed during homecoming weekend at Rice-Eccles Stadium, where dramatic drives have given Utah victories in the Trojans' last two visits. USC could take command of the South, having righted itself after a slow start.
Utah took a 6-0 record and No. 3 ranking into the Los Angeles Coliseum in 2015, when USC won convincingly.