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J. Brady McCollough: Which college football head coaching job is better: USC or LSU?

LOS ANGELES — I grew up in Louisiana during a period in the 1990s when it would have been nearly unthinkable that LSU football was going to win three national championships in the first two decades of the new millennium.

Of course, I'm sure kids who called Southern California home around that time would have felt the same way about USC football's prospects.

The reality today is that LSU and USC are both top-10 programs, and every such program aside from Ohio State has experienced a lengthy downturn since 1990. Some teams, like the Trojans, are struggling to escape theirs — and will now be looking to a fresh face to break the cycle of mediocrity.

The Tigers are in a situation all their own. They found lightning

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