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With 40 seconds left, the world was unrecognizable.
There was Michigan, the defending national champs, battered and bruised and teetering on the brink of a second loss in four weeks to open the 2024 season.
There was USC, in its first game as a member of the Big Ten, ascendant not because of Lincoln Riley's offensive genius but because of the tenacity of its much-maligned defense.
Even Connor Stalions couldn't have seen this coming.
Such is the state of college football in 2024, a time in which change is the only true constant.