Unlike most up-and-down games of late under Clay Helton, the USC vs. Fresno State score was a mostly accurate depiction. The Trojans left it awfully close.
The lowdown: The Trojans jumped out to a red-hot start with quarterback JT Daniels completing 13 of his first 14 passes on way to earning USC a 14-0 lead with a pair of Stephen Carr touchdowns. But after the Graham Harrell air raid settled in, the game normalized and both USC and Fresno State traded blows.
Slippery Bulldog quarterback Jorge Reyna led a pair of scoring drives, while Daniels turned somewhat erratic.