Every week*, The Times’ USC beat reporter, Zach Helfand, will answer your questions. Tweet yours to @zhelfand or email them to zach.helfand@latimes.com. And after every USC game, you can leave a voice message on the USC Overtime hotline, at 213-357-0984, for a call-in podcast posted the day after every game.
*Hopefully
When he was USC’s coach, John McKay used to say that there was nothing better than defeating Notre Dame and nothing worse than losing to UCLA.
And he said that before it was even possible to clinch a spot in the Pac-12 championship game before the rivalry game was even played.