USC has not played in a major bowl since the 2008 season, and the shadow of Sarkisian’s lawsuit against the school for wrongful termination still lingers over the program.
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Detroit was coming off a 7-point loss to the Rams in their last appearance, while New Orleans beat the Buccaneers in Week 14. The Lions’ offense dismantled the New Orleans Saints, 35-27, on a night when quarterback Matthew Stafford could do no wrong.
With a highly anticipated slate of New Year’s Six bowl games nearing closer, there are many other games still worth watching. Nebraska lost to USC, 45-42, in last year’s game. “That’s the mindset we’ll continue to carry into that USC game”.
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The Trojans led 42-17 in the fourth quarter when Ron VanderKelen led the Badgers on three touchdown drives in a comeback that ended when Wisconsin’s Louis Holland fumbled away a punt.
This will be only the eighth time that USC has played a game in San Diego, which is just a 2-hour drive from Troy’s Los Angeles campus.
147.2- The average amount of rushing yards conceded by the USC defense this season. What other notable injuries for USC could affect Wednesday’s game?
The Trojans are coming off their first win over UCLA since 2011 and their first Pac-12 championship game appearance – a 41-22 loss to Stanford – while the Badgers have quietly put together their third straight season of nine wins or more, earning victories in six of their final seven games. The redshirt Senior has slowed down some of the better wideouts during the past couple of the seasons and will have the biggest matchup of his career when he faces off against the Trojans’ second-team All-American wideout. Senior quarterback Joel Stave has been the constant for the Badgers throughout his career, leading the team to a school record 30 wins. With 1,389 receiving yards and 10 touchdowns, Smith-Schuster and his quarterback Cody Kessler are never out of a game.
USC ranks 23rd nationally in passing plays of 10 yards or more, and only 11 FBS teams have thrown more 50-yard passes than USC’s eight. The freshman has tallied 80 tackles this season. He entered the season as a Heisman candidate but wasn’t able to match last year’s ridiculous numbers. In each of Wisconsin’s three losses, the Badgers have been held to under 100 yards rushing, so if the Trojans want to have success on defense, it starts with stopping the run.
Though the Badgers scored at least 31 points in three of the last four games, they totaled 13 in their Big Ten losses to Iowa and Northwestern – the only league teams they faced with a winning record.
The Odds: Wisconsin is a 3.5 point underdog against Southern California in this one.
For the first time since 2004, Wisconsin likely won’t have a 1,000-yard rusher with Dare Ogunbowale leading the team with 769. “Still got one big game left you know, that’s kind of all we’re thinking about right now, so we’re all gonna come out fired up you know, it’s a huge challenge for us and we’re excited to have it”, says Edwards.
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UW defensive coordinator Dave Aranda excels at mixing up blitz packages on passing downs and has outside linebackers Joe Schobert and Vince Biegel at his disposal to try to get after Kessler.
