DON’T PANIC: While fans are squirming about...

DON’T PANIC: While fans are squirming about the Rams’ fade (five straight wins, then three straight losses) (C1), Coach John Robinson seems confident his team will recover. . . . Robinson has been there before. . . . In 1976, in his first game as the much-touted successor to head coach John McKay at USC, his team was blown out 46-25 by Missouri before a Coliseum full of USC alums, “and they were screaming for his head as soon as the game was over,” recalls USC official Tim Tessalone. “They were serious. He still talks about it.” . . . The Trojans went on to win all their remaining games and the Rose Bowl and finished second behind Pittsburgh in both college polls.