Just two weeks removed from a season-opening loss to the Maryland Terrapins, the Texas Longhorns already find themselves at a fork in their 2018 campaign. This wasn’t a reality many, if any, projected head coach Tom Herman’s program to be face-to-face with in mid-September, yet it is. Therefore, to say Saturday’s showdown with the No. 22 USC Trojans is a must-win is more rooted in reality than hyperbole.
Although not quite to those extremes, the Trojans will enter Darrell K Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium shouldering similar circumstances.
After being unable to pull away from UNLV until the fourth quarter, USC fell to No.