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USC Football: Five reasons to be optimistic about 2018

The 2017 Cotton Bowl was far less of a confidence boost for USC football than the 2017 Rose Bowl, but that bowl loss shouldn’t send rain clouds over the heads of Trojan fans in 2018.

There are plenty of reasons to be optimistic for USC this coming season as they look to repeat as Pac-12 Champions.

Here’s a look on the brightside of things going into 2018:

USC is likely to focus on the run

With attention keyed in on the quarterback position, the potential strength of USC’s run game in 2018 has been put on the backburner.