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Seems low to me. USC had some real issues with a UNLV team that won five games last season, including rush defense. 

A year ago, in game one, U$C had some real issues with a Western Michigan team out of the MAC that ended up going 4-4 in conference and 6-6 overall. There were some real issues to fix. They didn't fix all of those by week two, but they did pretty much smush us. 
Of course that does not mean that since they recovered once, they'll do so again - but $C will be ready to play us. Relative advantages this time around include a home game, not having to travel back from Australia, and (I hope) far better QB play. 

Bryce could be in for a big day, if USC doesn't adopt the SDSU Cover-0 approach.

 

Bryce could have a big day for sure - I hope and expect him to have lots of big days. I strongly doubt that $C will adopt the SDSU cover-0 approach. It's not what they do under Pendergrast, they saw what that leaves open as we torched SDSU through the air (there's a reason nobody generally plays defense like that), and $C believes they are strong enough to play us straight up along the lines - something SDSU clearly did not feel they could do. 

And contrary to some of the narrative here, stopping the run was something we did not do very well.
… SDSU’s OL was consistently getting 2 yards of surge on us before they wore down in the second half.

stupac beat me to answering this one. 

In the first half, SDSU averaged 2.5 yds/carry outside of the one big drive. 
Of course generally taking out the good plays is no way to treat statistics, but in this case the topic at hand is how well the defense played outside of that drive. In fact, SDSU really had one successful run in the first half outside of that drive, a 9 yard run on third and 7. They had one other 9 yard run, but it was a throw-away run on third and 20. 

I have watched the game a few times. The DL was far from perfect, but mostly were not getting blown off the ball. On the bad drive, there were a bunch of bad run fits: DL slanting away from the play, LBers filling the wrong gaps, along with some cases of guys being pushed back (see DWP on the TD run). 
Now I don't think that means a lot for what the $C OL might be able to do, but it wasn't a negative data point either.

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Seems low to me. USC had some real issues with a UNLV team that won five games last season, including rush defense. 

A year ago, in game one, U$C had some real issues with a Western Michigan team out of the MAC that ended up going 4-4 in conference and 6-6 overall. There were some real issues to fix. They didn't fix all of those by week two, but they did pretty much smush us. 
Of course that does not mean that since they recovered once, they'll do so again - but $C will be ready to play us. Relative advantages this time around include a home game, not having to travel back from Australia, and (I hope) far better QB play. 

Bryce could be in for a big day, if USC doesn't adopt the SDSU Cover-0 approach.

 

Bryce could have a big day for sure - I hope and expect him to have lots of big days. I strongly doubt that $C will adopt the SDSU cover-0 approach. It's not what they do under Pendergrast, they saw what that leaves open as we torched SDSU through the air (there's a reason nobody generally plays defense like that), and $C believes they are strong enough to play us straight up along the lines - something SDSU clearly did not feel they could do. 

And contrary to some of the narrative here, stopping the run was something we did not do very well.
… SDSU’s OL was consistently getting 2 yards of surge on us before they wore down in the second half.

stupac beat me to answering this one. 

In the first half, SDSU averaged 2.5 yds/carry outside of the one big drive. 
Of course generally taking out the good plays is no way to treat statistics, but in this case the topic at hand is how well the defense played outside of that drive. In fact, SDSU really had one successful run in the first half outside of that drive, a 9 yard run on third and 7. They had one other 9 yard run, but it was a throw-away run on third and 20. 

I have watched the game a few times. The DL was far from perfect, but mostly were not getting blown off the ball. On the bad drive, there were a bunch of bad run fits: DL slanting away from the play, LBers filling the wrong gaps, along with some cases of guys being pushed back (see DWP on the TD run). 
Now I don't think that means a lot for what the $C OL might be able to do, but it wasn't a negative data point either.