The 2016 USC football team won’t be going to the College Football Playoff. They won’t be Pac-12 Champions, and their team photo won’t be in the media guide 30 years from now.
But they will forever go down as one of the great what-if teams in Trojan history.
Like the 1979 team struggled to do with Stanford, what if the 2016 team finished off Utah?
Like the 1995 team insisted on mixing in Kyle Wachholtz at quarterback before settling on Brad Otton, what if the 2016 team went with Sam Darnold over Max Browne in Week 1?