It wasn’t 46 points to Alabama. It wasn’t 35 on the road to Notre Dame. It wasn’t the 17 to Ohio State, 23 to Texas or 13 to Utah. Yet USC’s one-point loss to the Cal Bears on Saturday night in the Coliseum is still the biggest, darkest stain on the Clay Helton Era to date.
It was an amalgamation of the Trojans’ failures in 2018. Their greatest hits. The recanting of wrongdoings and all the reasons they’ve put together one of the most frustrating seasons in school history.
There was a blown 14-0 lead, despite USC having multiple opportunities to score more points in the first half to put away an inferior opponent.