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No. 4 USC slight favorite over No. 12 Utah for Pac-12 title
Southern California wide receiver Brenden Rice, right, fends off Notre Dame cornerback Clarence Lewis during the second half of an NCAA college football game Saturday, Nov. 26, 2022, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) Mark J. Terrill AP No. 12 Utah (9-3, No. 11 CFP) vs No. 4 Southern California (11-1, No. 4 CFP), Friday, 8 p.m. EST (FOX) in Las Vegas. FANDUEL SPORTSBOOK COLLEGE LINE: USC by 2 1/2. SERIES RECORD: USC leads 13-8. WHAT’S AT STAKE? USC heads into this game fourth in the College Football Playoff rankings, so all the Trojans need to do is win and they’re in. It would be the Pac-12 Conference’s first…
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How Lincoln Riley’s Air Raid offense will give USC an edge
The ideas that would one day inspire a football revolution had been rattling around in Hal Mumme’s head for a few years before he finally had the chance to use them. It was 1986, and Mumme had just lost his job as Texas El Paso’s offensive coordinator. With nowhere to turn at the college level, Mumme retreated to the ranks of Texas high school football, where he inherited a struggling program with just a handful of wins during the previous decade. Out of that desperation, the Air Raid’s roots first took hold in the central Texas soil, where three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust was long the offensive doctrine of choice. Mumme didn’t have that…