Zach Helfand
Zach Helfand is a former sports reporter for the Los Angeles Times. He is a proud New Jerseyan and Michigan graduate and previously interned with The Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Baltimore Sun, USA Today and the Trentonian (N.J.).
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USC won the Pac-12 Conference. Ohio State won the Big Ten Conference.
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In the moments before the Pac-12 championship game began on Friday, USC safety Chris Hawkins journeyed toward the end zone alone, kneeled and put his head down.
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In the shadow of its goal line, with the Pac-12 championship game and the success of the season in the balance, USC’s defense faced a goal-line stand of unusual length: six plays.
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Ronald Jones II, as he has done so often this season, broke two tackles in the fourth quarter and flipped, belly flopping into the end zone.
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No. 14 USC returns to play on Saturday night against Southern Methodist at Moody Coliseum in Dallas.
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No. 10 USC (10-2, 8-1 in Pac-12) vs.
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Chris Hawkins pulled up his Twitter feed earlier this week, expecting to see some excitement for USC’s date in the Pac-12 championship game on Friday against Stanford.
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Bryce Love stood, smiling slightly, in a throng of Stanford supporters last weekend after the Cardinal defeated Notre Dame and, thanks to a Washington State loss that same evening, advanced to the Pac-12 Conference championship game.