This is what a winning culture looks like.
This is what it looks like when a team endures tons of key injuries, is stretched very thin on its roster, has to overcome a lot of negative in-game events, and must simply persevere.
We saw this resilience on Thursday from the reigning Pac-12 champions, the Utah Utes. They were missing quarterback Cam Rising, three running backs — including Tavion Thomas and Micah Bernard — and watched Dalton Kincaid get hurt (on top of already missing Brant Kuithe).
They had to win on the road at Washington State in spite of all those injuries, and they did.
Two days later, USC did the same thing against Arizona. Let’s underscore all the adverse developments the Trojans had to overcome: