Few things are as annual as preseason hype surrounding USC Football. This season is no different, because it’s easy to see why the time is now for Clay Helton’s program.
The team is fresh off their first Rose Bowl win in eight years, return a healthy amount of starters, are a Vegas coin-flip for the College Football Playoff and boast the nation’s most acclaimed quarterback.
The Trojans’ title window stands agape, forced open by the might of the 2015 recruiting class, with former head coach Steve Sarkisian’s fingerprints smudging every inch.
This season’s hype was built when he and his coaching staff assembled the nation’s No.