Los Angeles • USC once fired a basketball coach two days after the Trojans’ 17-point victory over Utah. The Ute football team’s visit to the Los Angeles Coliseum couldn’t possibly match that sequence of events in USC history, but Friday night’s game did bring some unusual circumstances into play.
Urban Meyer's presence in the west zone was a good illustration of all the speculation swirling around USC coach Clay Helton's future, on a day when USC inaugurated a new president on the nearby campus.
The Trojans started Friday's game with some spirit, though, scoring touchdowns on their first two possessions behind fill-in quarterback Matt Fink and taking a 14-10 halftime lead.