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Bill Plaschke: USC showed breathtaking resilience during its best — and ugliest — win of the season

Defensive lineman James Rawls of the Oregon State Beavers goes to tackle quarterback Caleb Williams of the USC Trojans at Reser Stadium on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022, in Corvallis, Oregon.

CORVALLIS, Ore. — The cry arose from the delighted Oregon State crowd midway through the first half, thousands of orange shirts bursting with swagger at a USC team that was falling flat on its face.

"Over-rated … over-rated …"

Nope.

Not yet, anyway. Not on this night. Not with this coach. Not with this culture.

Within two minutes of blowing another monumental game at cursed Reser Stadium on Saturday night, something breathtaking happened with what is appearing to be a pretty darn breathtaking Trojans team.

They were terrible, terrible, terrible … then brilliantly terrific.

Caleb Williams was terrible, terrible, terrible … then beautifully tenacious.

The defense was terrible, terrible,

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