Get your game-brain ready with these great nuggets to dazzle your friends, from usctrojans.com
CROSSTOWN SHOWDOWN
• The nation will be watching, but this is a local feud. No. 7 USC and No. 16 UCLA meet this Saturday
at the Rose Bowl for the 92nd version of the nation’s most famous crosstown rivalry. It will be shown live
nationally on FOX.
• With No. 12 Oregon losing to No. 15 Washington over the weekend, USC now officially controls its own
destiny. City dominance will be determined in this game, but a win over the Bruins would guarantee USC’s
spot in the Pac-12 Football Championship Game in Las Vegas.
• UCLA has won just 6 of the last 23 meetings in the series with USC, but the Trojans were victorious the
last time the game was in Pasadena. The Trojans have won just 48% of the time when both USC and UCLA
have been nationally ranked.
• Also at stake on Saturday are city bragging rights, the Victory Bell and Crosstown Cup points. Both
teams will wear their home jerseys.
• This game will feature two of the nation’s top 2 QBs, leading Heisman candidate Caleb Williams and
Dorian Thompson-Robinson.
• The Rose Bowl stadium is USC’s home away from home, as Troy has played more than 50 games
there.
• USC is ranked No. 7 in the AP Poll and No. 6 in the USA Today Coaches Poll.
• In the second round of CFP Rankings, USC was No. 8.
• The last time both teams were ranked for this matchup was 2014 when USC was No. 24 in the AP Poll
and UCLA was No. 11.
• The 9-1 start is USC’s best since the 2008 team started 9-1 and went on to finish 12-1 and defeat Penn
State 38-24 in the Rose Bowl.
• Lincoln Riley is the first USC head coach to start his career 9-1 since John Robinson started 9-1 in
1976.
COLORADO GAME RECAP
• Leading Heisman candidate QB Caleb Williams went 14-of-26 (.538) for 268 and 3 TDs and 1 INT to
lead USC to a 55-17 victory over Colorado in the Coliseum under the Friday night lights in front of a crowd of
61,206.
• Williams totaled 5 TD, 3 through the air and 2 rushing.
• This was the fourth consecutive game that Williams has accounted for 5 total TDs. He threw just his
second pick of the season.
• Williams has accounted for 37 total touchdowns in 10 games at USC.
• Williams is the first USC QB to have 2 games with multiple rushing TDs in the same season since
complete records were first available for this stat in 1972.
• Williams now has 3,293 total offensive yards which ranks 12th on USC’s single-season total yards list.
He also has 3,010 passing yards this season which ranks 15th on USC’s single-season passing yards list.
• He is No. 3 in the nation in passing TDs (No. 1 in the conference) with 31, No. 3 in the nation in points
responsible for per game with 22.2 and No. 4 in the nation in points responsible for with 222.
• Former Trojan Cody Kessler, currently holds the record for the lowest rate of interceptions in a season
with 1.1% (5 in 452 attempts during the 2014 season). Williams is on pace to overtake that record since he
is currently at 0.6% (2 in 342 attempts).
• Williams distributed the ball to 9 different receivers during the game.
• RB Austin Jones led the team with 4 receptions, while Kyle Ford had the most receiving yards with 73.
• Jones also was USC’s leading rusher collecting 74 yards on 11 carries.
• RB Travis Dye’s collegiate career ended with an injury as he went down after an awkward tackle.
• Before his injury, Dye had 9 carries for 27 yards. It ended his consecutive games scoring a rushing
TD streak at 8. The last Trojan with a rushing TD in 8 or more consecutive games in one season was Marcus
Allen in 1981, when he scored a rushing TD in 9 consecutive games.
• WR Tahj Washington’s 61-yard TD catch in the third quarter was the longest scoring catch of his USC
career. His previous long catch as a Trojan was 47 at Arizona on Oct. 29. He has a career-long catch of 92 yards.
