LOS ANGELES >> USC is going to win, right?
The Trojans are going to beat Penn State on Monday in the 103rd Rose Bowl because, after 102 of these things, we all know by now how they end.
We all know some representative of the Big Ten is going to plod into Pasadena, on a roll and on a high, and then be left flat-footed and grasping at fumes as the Trojans speed by and out of sight.
The story line is as big a cliché as every winning coach of a bowl game wearing a bucket of Gatorade, a stereotype as strong as the fact every Rose Bowl morning is crisp and cloudless.