The opening act of the Pac-12 South dramedy will play out Friday night at Rice-Eccles Stadium when USC travels to Utah.
It will not be balletic. It will not be pretty. And it will not be graceful.
This matchup features some of the best offensive and defensive linemen in the country. It will be gritty, arduous, and probably a little nasty.
This game, it seems, is also a mirror to how the Pac-12 South race is going to play out -- gritty, arduous, and probably a little bit nasty.
Over the past four years, the Pac-12 South has seen four different division champs: UCLA (2012), Arizona State (2013), Arizona (2014) and USC (2015).