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Five takeaways from USC’s trouncing of Cal

USC faced a test on Saturday night against Cal, but instead of floudering as they did in 2018, they came away with a 41-17 victory.

Concerns about Justin Wilcox’s normally stingy defense proved to be unfounded as Kedon Slovis led the Trojans up and down the field all night, and the USC defense handled Cal’s punchless offense with relative ease.

Here are the takeaways from the win…

Kedon Slovis is even better than we thought

When USC turned to Kedon Slovis to start the second game of 2019, he proceeded to shred the Stanford secondary for 377 yards on 28-of-33 passing and three touchdowns.