... was sticking out like a black eye after the first quarter—Pete Carroll is no longer the boss at Southern Cal.

The old epoch of run-it-up football was lost at USC when Carroll departed for the NFL, and a new era of mediocrity seems to have arrived on campus along with new head coach Lane Kiffin, who may need a set of training wheels to handle the high expectations.

That much can be understood from a mere 13-point win over the Rainbow Warriors on Thursday night. Sure, the Trojans put up 49 points with relative ease, but when was the last time the cardinal and gold looked so depleted on defense?

A program of such magnitude and recruiting pr...

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