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With everything on the line, USC had been either desultory or dysfunctional in going 3-3.
Imagine what the Trojans would be if they were playing for nothing.
Their fans are spared that nightmare, at least temporarily. The Trojans couldn’t really block third-ranked Utah but somehow found a way to get around that, winning 42-24 in the Coliseum and getting to within a game of the Utes in the Pac-12 South.
Utah does not have a difficult schedule left. It doesn’t play Stanford, but does play UCLA in Salt Lake City on Nov.