2018 The Correction

2018 is a losing-side chapter for USC. The program metabolises it; the voice does not apologize.

Record 5-7
Final Result Losing season
AP Final #22 post-bowls
SP+ +4.2 last-week
Era The Post-Sanctions Wilderness
The Shape — week-by-week · cumulative W–L below
W vs UNLV 43-21 L @ Stanford 3-17 L @ Texas 14-37 W vs Wash St 39-36 W @ Arizona 24-20 W vs Colorado 31-20 L @ Utah 28-41 L vs Ariz Sta 35-38 W @ Oreg Sta 38-21 L vs Califo 14-15 L @ UCLA 27-34 L vs ND 17-24

Who carried it

Season leaders, 2018.

Defining Moments
The Statement

The 2018 season's largest margin: USC 43, UNLV 21. A 22-point win — the year's high-water mark.

The Setback

The season's deepest loss: USC 14, Texas 37. A 23-point margin the season is remembered by.

"Fight On."
— USC fanbase voice · 2018· synthesized
What It Meant

2018 sits in USC's crisis ledger. The program does not moralise it. The next season begins the day this one ended and the crisis chapter closes when the ledger does.