The No. 20 USC is developing a flare for its dramatic start to the 2020 season, beating Arizona 34-30 again on Saturday after coming off aggressively at the end of the fourth quarter. The Heroines finally won last week’s equally narrow 28-27 win over the Trojans to open their Pack-12 season against the state of Arizona.
The Wildcats caught the Soommore quarterback Caden Slovis and the Trojans in the air for most of the game’s investigation, but the Slovis led the USC to a pair of touchdowns in the final 3:30 on Saturday, leaving the USC unbeaten in a shutdown down with a defending pay. -12 Southern Champion Utah next week.
Arizona was playing its first game of the season since the scheduled opener was canceled against Utah last week, and the Wildcats looked much improved on last year’s 4-8 team. The team lost seven straight games to end the season, including a 141-1-14 defeat against USC. But when Lucas Havrisic scored a 51-yard field goal with 7:49 left on Saturday, it looked like Arizona would be ready for a 1-0 start in 2020.
At that point, USC was able to manage just three points in the second half as a punt by the Trojans, a maid field goal, a missed field goal, a turnover on the downs and a punt for the start of the second half. But as he did against the state of Arizona – when he led two scoring drives in the final three minutes – Slovis delivered again when he was most important.
The 2019 Pack-12 offensive freshman wrestled an 11-play, 75-yard go-ahead ahead of the scoring drive with a ya-yard touchdown pass with app :: 300 left. Not to be outdone, Arizona’s own star sophomore quarterback, Grant Gunnell, put the Wildcats ahead with 1:35 left. Arizona has won the U.S.C. With so much time left on the clock, however, the Trojans marched into the field and sealed the victory with an 8-yard touchdown with only 25 seconds left from Vav Malepi.
The damage to the already-fighting national profile of Pack-12 would have been a crushing blow. The USC and Oregon are the only ranked teams in the league, and the Trojans would certainly have withdrawn from the polls if it weren’t for the second straight week of late game heroism.
