Plaschke: Soul-crushing defeats have become the norm for once-mighty Trojans program [Los Angeles Times]
Plaschke: Soul-crushing defeats have become the norm for once-mighty Trojans program [Los Angeles Times] The college football powers were right. I was wrong. The conventional college football wisdom was deftly accurate. I was terribly mistaken. Last week I wrote that, despite their disrespectfully low No. 13 ranking, if USC defeated overmatched Oregon in the Pac-12 Championship game Friday night, the unbeaten Trojans would be worthy of a spot in college football’s final four. Well, the Trojans are no longer unbeaten, they are again worthy of only utter disappointment, and that No. 13 rank...