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UCLA vs. USC: Recruiting battles help feed rivalry

Do the math and it doesn’t make much sense.

Reggie Bush left USC for the NFL in 2005. Yet his name resonates in the living room 10 years later.

“I talk to recruits now who were 5 or 6 years old at the time and they think they were fans of Reggie Bush,” FOX Sports national recruiting analyst Greg Biggins said. “Really it’s a sign of how passionate their family was raising them a USC fan. People in this city are typically die-hards for either USC or UCLA from a young age and they grow up hating the other school.