USC football report card for another late collapse against Maryland

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This is getting very depressing, very mind-numbing, and very repetitive. Another week, another late-game collapse by USC football. It is a broken record. The same story just keeps repeating itself again and again with no end in sight. USC comes within one play of winning but doesn’t make that play. The Trojans get several chances to finish off an opponent and can’t take that last step. What is going on around here? As we prepare to give you our USC football report card and hand out USC football grades for the 29-28 loss to Maryland, just stop for a moment and realize that the grades we are about to hand out — and the rationale for giving them — are basically the same as they were for the Minnesota game and the other games USC has allowed to slip away.

The overall 60-minute product wasn’t terrible, but the result was terrible. The good things this team does are wiped out by the bad things. If USC football was able to make the final winning play, mistakes could be forgiven much more easily, but this team is consistently not making that final winning play. Grades simply have to reflect that, even if this team did play well for portions of time, enough to build a 28-14 lead in the second half.

Let’s go to the classroom and hand out the latest (depressing, annoying) USC football report card:

MILLER MOSS GRADE — C

Moss — Jayne Kamin-Oncea-Imagn Images

Miller Moss is throwing crucial interceptions to undo the good work he does. Moss is not the main reason USC is falling short, but he also isn’t avoiding the big mistake which helps an opponent at just the right (wrong) time. Moss has to eliminate large mistakes from his portfolio. Until he does, we can’t give him an especially good grade.

WOODY MARKS GRADE — B

Tim Prangley, Trojans Wire

Woody Marks continues to be one of the best players on this USC team. His failure to…

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Publish date : 2024-10-20 13:09:07

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