Big plays will be key for USC to defeat Texas

Coming off a loss on the road to Stanford in which the USC Trojan offense scored just three points, USC will face a Texas team that has struggled mightily to start the season, but in a very hostile environment in front of a sellout crowd of 100,000 fans. The Trojans clearly need to fix their offense, and the way they can do that is by creating big plays on both sides of the ball.

USC’s offensive struggles did not have to do with an inability to move the football. USC had just 10 yards less total offense than Stanford and had seven more first downs. USC ran 16 more plays and time of possession was nearly even despite being negative three in the turnover battle. Six drives went inside the…