USC’s 2018 football schedule is released

USC’s 2018 football schedule was released Thursday, and it is structured a lot like USC’s current schedule.

USC will again see a front-loaded schedule. The Trojans have a brutal four-game stretch beginning in Week 2: at Stanford, at Texas, home against Washington State on a Friday and then at Arizona.

But, unlike this season, USC follows that with a bye week.

One new quirk next season: USC won’t play consecutive home games.

The Pac-12 fixed a few of the most griped-about issues from this season. Every conference team has a regular-season bye, and no teams will play a road game followed by another road game on a Thursday or Friday.

Here’s USC’s full slate:

• Sept. 1 vs. UNLV
• Sept. 8 at Stanford
• Sept. 15 at Texas
• Sept. 21 (Fri.) vs. Washington State
• Sept. 29 at Arizona
• Oct. 13 vs. Colorado
• Oct. 20 at Utah
• Oct. 27 vs. Arizona State
• Nov. 3 at Oregon State
• Nov. 10 vs. California
• Nov. 17 at UCLA
• Nov. 24 vs. Notre Dame

zach.helfand@latimes.com

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