USC won. That’s good. Just about everything else about Saturday night’s game against Arizona was bad. Let’s not kid ourselves or run from the truth: This was horrible. This was worse than Arizona State and Colorado. The Trojans are regressing instead of improving. There is less reason for optimism about this season, not more, despite the fact that USC is 6-0.
Offense, defense, special teams — USC was not up to par in any facet of competition. The Trojans very nearly lost to Arizona as a 21-point favorite. They very nearly ruined their entire season before the first highly anticipated game on the slate, the Week 7 battle at Notre Dame on October 14.
Here is just a small sampling of the larger reactions and startling facts which accompanied this very ugly triple-overtime 43-41 win over Arizona: