“We just came up short again”.
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“I feel bad for Sefo”, Colorado coach Mike MacIntyre said.
USC went on a 15-3 run midway through the first half to build a comfortable advantage.
Seemingly in control at 27-17 in the fourth quarter, USC surrendered a 45-yard punt return from Spruce to set the Buffaloes up the near the goal line.
Liufau spent the final three quarters on crutches, and ultimately his teammates limped off the field with him. It was announced after the game that Liufau had a Lisfranc injury. “He’ll be out six to eight months. I’ve been down there with his family and him and it’s tough, it;s really tough”. Christian Powell fumbled on the first play of the ensuing CU possession, giving USC the ball on the CU 34.
“I feel I can make a play regardless of where I’m at”, he said.
What went right: CU could not have played much better in the first half.
The Buffs got the ball back one last time, but Apsay’s fourth down pass fell incomplete.
USC receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster frolicked on the field shirtless before the Trojans played Colorado on Friday night at Folsom Field.
A field goal by each team before the half would make it 17-6 at the break.
“It just clicked”, Simmons said of the defense’s second-half effort. It went a little something like this: CU punt, USC toouchdown, CU fumble, USC touchdown, CU missed field goal, USC touchdown.
The Buffs 11-point halftime lead had turned into a 10 point defeceit in the blink of an eye. “They’ll never forget this moment, what we’ve been through this season….” Coverage of this game airs on ESPN2 beginning at 9:00 pm ET from Folsom Field. Apsay hit Nelson Spruce on a slant for a 9-yard touchdown, tying Spruce with Scotty McKnight’s school record for career touchdown receptions (22). Give Southern Cal credit, coming back and getting the game there. The over is 4-1 in the Trojans’ last four games versus a team with a losing record and is 16-5 in the Buffaloes’ last 21 games versus a team with a winning record.
Jackson preserved the USC lead early in the fourth quarter when he sprinted around the edge and blocked Diego Gonzalez’s 51-yard field goal attempt. Kessler hit Jaleel Pinner on the next play for a 4-yard touchdown that made it 17-13. He did not come into his press conference until over an hor after the game ended.
Colorado is looking to shake off last week’s blow out loss to Stanford, and would like nothing more than to get a signature win over the Trojans.
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“The 42 years as I look back on it isn’t as wonderful to me as that at 80 years old, I’m still doing it”, Zimmer said.
