Q&A with Conquest Chronicles: Talking USC Trojans Football

Earlier this week we talked with Nick Dempsey, editor for the SB Nation community Conquest Chronicles (@CChroniclesSBN) regarding this week’s matchup with USC.

Here's what we learned in our Q&A:

UWDP: Sam Darnold is the second rated passer in the Pac-12 conference and USC’s emergence has coincided with his good play. How in the hell did he not win the job from the get-go? Tell us about what he does well.

Nick Dempsey: It is curious why Max Browne initially got the start over Sam Darnold to start the season. There are many who like to play revisionist historian and claim that USC would have started the season 3-1 instead of 1-3 had Sam Darnold started from the outset (beating Stanford and Utah…