If you spent part of the 2022 college football season thinking, "USC can't possibly keep getting away with this!!" then you should know this: Your hunches were as statistically sound as they were exasperated.
For much of last fall, the Trojans' defense was good at one and only one thing: pouncing on the football just in the nick of time. They lacked in just about every other department -- they were 93rd in scoring defense (29.2 points per game), 106th in total defense (423.9 yards per game) and a ghastly 124th in yards allowed per play (6.