The teams have seven losses between them, and any shot at making the four-team College Football Playoff was off the table for by midseason. But the 85th game between USC and UCLA on Saturday at the Coliseum still carries championship implications.
UCLA, coming off a victory at Utah, is 8-3 overall and 5-3 in Pac-12 Conference play. USC, trying to rebound from a thrashing at Oregon, is 7-4 and 5-3.
The Pac-12 South Division title and the chance to face Stanford in the conference title game on Dec.