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Bill Plaschke: You read it here first: UCLA will beat USC Saturday at the Rose Bowl

LOS ANGELES — UCLA will beat USC. It's crazy to predict this game, crazy to risk the outpouring of ridicule if wrong, crazy to attempt forecasting the most evenly matched crosstown rivalry duel in many years — crazy, crazy, crazy. Doing it anyway. Doing it because this is what UCLA does. The Bruins have been deflated, they're embarrassed, they blew their chance at the national playoffs with an ...
UCLA quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson scores a touchdown past USC linebacker Ralen Goforth in the second quarter at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2021.

LOS ANGELES — UCLA will beat USC.

It's crazy to predict this game, crazy to risk the outpouring of ridicule if wrong, crazy to attempt forecasting the most evenly matched crosstown rivalry duel in many years — crazy, crazy, crazy.

Doing it anyway.

Doing it because this is what UCLA does.

The Bruins have been deflated, they're embarrassed, they blew their chance at the national playoffs with an unthinkable loss Saturday night to Arizona and …

And here comes USC, rolling along, three

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