USC scores after recreation stopped for injured Michigan State participant
USC 24, Michigan State 10, 37 seconds left in second quarter
USC began on its 12 after Corey Simms was known as for unsportsmanlike conduct on the kickoff return.
Eli Sanders ran for no achieve. Jayden Maiava’s cross to Lake McRee was damaged up. Maiava handed to Jaden Richardson for 11 yards. Maiava handed to Waymond Jordan for 5 yards. Maiava ran for 2 yards. On third-and-three on the USC 30, the two-minute warning timeout was triggered.
Maiava faked a handoff and handed to Lemon for 17 yards. Jordan ran for 9 yards. Jordan then ran for 20 yards and Michigan State’s Malik Spencer was known as for concentrating on. After a assessment, officers decided there was no concentrating on.
Sanders ran for 15 yards. Michigan State’s Nikai Martinez and Quindarius Dunnigan collided helmet to helmet in the course of the play and had been handled on the sector earlier than strolling to the sideline.
Jordan ran for 2 yards to the Michigan State 7 with 42 seconds left within the quarter. The Spartans known as timeout and Michigan State’s linebacker Wayne Matthews III was down on the sector getting handled in the course of the break. Gamers on each groups both took a knee or gathered collectively to with arms linked as medical employees put Matthews on a stretcher.
After he was carted off, the gang applauded and Michigan State knelt for a staff prayer.
On second-and-goal on the Michigan State 7, Maiava faked a handoff and handed to Tanook Hines within the again proper again nook of the tip zone. Ryon Sayeri hit the additional level.
USC limits Michigan State to a subject aim
USC 17, Michigan State 10, 4:26 left in second quarter
Michigan State began on its 45 after stuffing USC on fourth down.
Aiden Chiles ran for eight yards. Makhi Frazier ran for 15 yards. Omari Kelly handed for 12 yards to the USC 20. Chiles handed to Kelly for 11 yards. Michigan State tried a reverse to arrange a Kelly cross, however bounced the ball off the sector incomplete. Frazier ran for a lack of three yards. On third-and-11, Chiles’ cross to the tip zone beneath heavy stress from USC’s Anthony Lucas was quick and incomplete.
Martin Connington hit a 29-yard subject aim to trim USC’s lead.
USC can’t convert on fourth down
USC 17, Michigan State 7, 8:05 left in second quarter
USC began on its 11 after the Michigan State punt.
Waymond Jordan ran for 35 yards. Jayden Maiava took a shot deep, but it surely was incomplete. Maiava handed to Makai Lemon for six yards. On third-and-4, Lemon’s cross was damaged up because the pocket was collapsing. On fourth-and-four at Michigan State 48, Lemon caught a cross and was solely capable of achieve three yards. USC turned the ball over on the Michigan State 45.
USC protection delivers one other cease
USC 17, Michigan State 7, 9:22 left in second quarter
Michigan State began on its 25 after the touchback.
Aidan Chiles handed for 2 yards, Makhi Frazier ran for a 3 yard loss and Chiles ran for eight yards. On fourth-and-three, Michigan State tried to attract USC offsides earlier than calling timeout.
The Spartans the punted to the USC 11.
Jayden Maiava connects with Makai Lemon for a landing
USC 17, Michigan State 7, 11:36 left in second quarter
USC began on its 7 after the Michigan State punt.
Jayden Maiava handed to Makai Lemon for 27 yards.
Waymond Jordan ran for 5 yards. Maiava tossed an incomplete cross that was tipped. Maiava handed to Lake McRee for six yards and a primary down. Jordan Corridor was known as for concentrating on on the sort out and was ejected. Maiava then tossed a 40-yard landing cross to Lemon. Ryon Sayeri hit the additional level.
USC protection opens second quarter with a cease
USC 10, Michigan State 7, 13:36 left in second quarter
Michigan State opened the quarter going through second-and-eight on its 45.
Brandon Tullis ran for a one-yard loss and Aidan Chiles was sacked fora lack of six yards.
Michigan State punted to the USC 7.
Michigan State driving at finish of first quarter
USC 10, Michigan State 7, finish of first quarter
Michigan State began on its 23 after a 20-yard return.
Eric Gentry tackled Brandon Tullis for a one-yard loss. Tullis then ran for eight yards. Elijah Tau-Tolliver ran for 3 yards. Aidan Chiles tossed an incomplete cross, however USC was known as for holding on the play. Chiles tossed a two-yard cross to Omari Kelly as time expired within the first quarter.
USC matches Michigan State’s opening landing drive
USC 10, Michigan State 7, 2:38 left in first quarter
USC began on its 28 after the Makai Lemon 24-yard kickoff return.
Eli Sanders ran for 12 yards after which one other 16 yards.
Jayden Maiava handed to Lemon for 20 yards. Sanders ran for 3 yards. Maiava handed to Sanders for six yards. On third-and-one, Maiava faked a handoff and ran for a 15-yard landing. Ryon Sayeri hit the additional level.
Michigan State mounts fast scoring drive
Michigan State 7, USC 3, 5:27 left in first quarter
Michigan State began on its 25 after the touchback.
Brandon Tullis ran for 2 yards, Aidan Chiles handed for six yards, Makhi Frazier ran for 2 yards and Michigan State was known as for false begin. Chiles handed for 9 yards after which 19 yards earlier than connecting with Chrishon McCray for a 42-yard landing. Michigan State hit the additional level to take a fast lead.
USC settles for subject aim on opening drive
USC 3, Michigan State 0, 9:03 left in first quarter
USC began on its 19 after the Makai Lemon kicoff return.
Waymond Jordan ran for 2 yards. Jordan ran for seven yards and Eli Sanders ran for 2 yards to get a primary down.
Jayden Maiava handed to Jaden Richardson for 11 yards. Sanders ran for no achieve after which for 18 yards. Maiava tossed the ball away beneath stress from the Michigan State protection. Maiava handed to Jordan for a 20-yard achieve. Michigan State was known as for a penalty, transferring the ball to the Sparans’ 9.
USC was known as for delay of recreation, transferring again 5 yards. Maiava handed to Sanders for 11 yards. Jordan ran for one yard. USC was known as for false begin. On third-and-eight at Michigan State 8, Maiava tossed an incomplete cross to the tip zone.
Ryon Sayeri hit a 25-yard subject aim to shut out the drive.
Huge Ten after darkish is beneath means …
USC 0, Michigan State 0, begin of first quarter
USC received the coin toss and elected to obtain.
How Bishop Fitzgerald’s roots as a quarterback helped him grow to be a prolific USC security
Bishop Fitzgerald stood contained in the 5-yard line at Ross-Ade Stadium, watching the eyes of Purdue quarterback Ryan Browne, ready for the precise second to pounce. It was a essential third down Saturday, halfway by means of the fourth quarter, throughout a Huge Ten street recreation.
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USC celebrated an elusive Huge Ten street win over Purdue Saturday, highlighted by improved recreation administration within the essential fourth quarter.
Luckily, Fitzgerald knew precisely the place the play was headed. The USC senior security acknowledged it from movie clips he studied of Purdue’s purple zone offense. He knew to not chew on the play-action faux and that the receiver would, in a matter of seconds, minimize throughout the middle of the sector on his route.
He additionally knew to be affected person, to lure the quarterback right into a false sense of safety. So when Browne lastly did fireplace his cross over the center, Fitzgerald was there at simply the precise second to snag his second interception of the sport.
D’Anton Lynn says he hasn’t been contacted by UCLA, and his focus is on USC’s protection
Since DeShaun Foster was fired earlier this week, D’Anton Lynn has been close to the highest of most potential lists of head teaching candidates for UCLA.
However USC’s rising star defensive coordinator stated on Wednesday that he has not been contacted concerning the open job throughout city and reiterated that his consideration was educated on the Trojans’ upcoming matchup with Michigan State on Saturday night time.
“We’ve received a number of stuff on protection that we’ve received to wash up and enhance on,” Lynn stated. “In order that’s the place all my focus is correct now.”
USC recap: Trojans exorcised their Huge Ten street demons in win over Purdue
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Three lengthy hours after his staff evacuated the sector for a lightning delay, coach Lincoln Riley lastly emerged from the tunnel at Ross-Ade Stadium, realizing any hope of a seamless begin to USC’s street slate had doubtless washed away with the rain.
Nothing about USC’s first tour by means of Huge Ten nation final season had gone easily, because the Trojans bafflingly blew fourth-quarter leads in all 4 of their convention street tilts. So earlier than their second foray into the convention, Riley and his employees had got down to make the season’s slate of journeys as seamless as attainable.
However Mom Nature had brushed apart these plans earlier than USC’s first street recreation even started. As a substitute, rain got here down in sheets and lightning loomed within the space, leaving the Trojans mendacity across the tiny visiting locker room at Ross-Ade Stadium for hours earlier than kickoff, doing no matter they might to remain free and keep fed.
USC vs. Michigan State: 4 issues to look at for Saturday
After years of weathering the #AfterDark absurdity of the Pac-12 Convention, USC hoped transferring to the Huge Ten may assist kick most of these weird midnight romps from its calendar.
After all, geographic sense solely issues a lot in school soccer when there’s hundreds of thousands to be constituted of broadcast rights. Fox had the third alternative this week among the many networks and selected the perfect accessible recreation. That’s why USC and Michigan State will kick off at 8 p.m. Saturday. Which suggests, in East Lansing, Mich., the sport ought to wrap someplace round 2:30-3 a.m.
There have been two such kickoffs within the Huge Ten final season, and just one that included a staff hopping three time zones to the west. USC won that 8 p.m. game in opposition to Rutgers in quarterback Jayden Maiava’s debut.
The Spartans (3-0) arrived in L.A. on Thursday to offer them loads of time to acclimate. Jonathan Smith, who beforehand coached at Oregon State, understands what such a late kickoff requires. Nonetheless, you could possibly perceive why Michigan State may not be thrilled on the prospect of taking part in so late.
USC may have its personal time-zone bother to take care of subsequent week, when it kicks off at 9 a.m. PDT in a street matchup with Illinois. This weekend, the larger query for USC will likely be if the followers arrive well-rested — or in any respect.
“Each groups gotta take care of it,” coach Lincoln Riley stated. “We gotta deal with it nicely, our crowd must deal with it nicely. On the finish of the day, it’s a recreation, it’s being performed, it’s being performed within the Coliseum, and we count on to win and we count on to have a very good crowd behind us. We’re not going to make excuses about it.”
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