Aca’Cedric Ware had been waiting a long time for this, waiting to bust a big run at a key moment. It was painfully slow in coming.
Either the holes weren’t there for him to scamper through, or the senior running back wasn’t there when USC’s offense was on the field. Knee pain had limited him to one touch for -5 yards last week against Washington State and he had only four carries the week before in a loss at Texas, a defeat he followed by criticizing the team’s practices as “kind of lazy, kind of slow” leading up to the game.