You cannot possibly make this stuff up.
No, please. You did not think this was possible. I didn’t think it was possible. None of us thought this was possible. Not in our wildest dreams, not in a million years.
No, USC beating UCLA was entirely realistic. That wasn’t remarkably surprising.
The surprise is is that of all people to make the game-sealing play in the USC-UCLA game on Saturday night in Pasadena, it was:
- A USC defensive player, not an offensive player
- It was not Tuli Tuipulotu or Mekhi Blackmon or Calen Bullock or Shane Lee or Ralen Goforth — those five guys might have been reasonable selections to make a huge play, but it wasn’t any of them (we could also include Max Williams, maybe also Tyrone Taleni)
- Korey Foreman made the play
Korey Foreman. You know, the highly-rated recruit who barely got on the field, who was injured a lot, who didn’t log a ton of practice time, who was behind schedule nearly the whole 2022 season after his washout 2021 under Donte Williams and Todd Orlando.
That guy.
That’s the guy who won this game for USC.
We have reactions to USC’s defensive struggles and takeaways versus UCLA, and the Foreman pick which won the game, sending the Trojans to the Pac-12 Championship Game in Las Vegas on Dec. 2.