Dorian Thompson-Robinson leads UCLA to historic rout of USC

LOS ANGELES — The database of indignities the USC shot squad suffered astatine the hands of UCLA connected Saturday was a lengthy one.

There was Bruins backmost Dorian Thompson-Robinson autographing a USC fan’s chapeau aft a second-quarter touchdown. Or Kazmeir Allen’s 100-yard kickoff instrumentality for a TD conscionable aft USC had chopped the shortage to azygous digits successful the 3rd quarter. Or the Bruins going for 2, up 22 successful the 4th quarter, to effort to enactment up 50 points.

But the Bruins didn’t request the 2-point conversion to execute that. Thompson-Robinson took attraction of it connected his own, hurdling implicit a USC defender into the extremity zone, and into history.

With that touchdown, UCLA broke the programme grounds for the astir points scored against USC, antecedently 48. A precocious touchdown conscionable added to the Trojans’ humiliation arsenic UCLA ran distant with a 62-33 win.

The Bruins (7-4, 5-3 successful Pac-12) ended a two-game losing streak to USC (4-6, 3-5), and won for the 2nd clip successful six games successful the rivalry.

With 395 full yards and six full touchdowns to pb the Bruins to 609 yards of offense, Thompson-Robinson stole the amusement from USC backmost Jaxson Dart, the existent freshman making his archetypal vocation start, and overcame a rocky start, too.

The archetypal fewer drives were fittingly dysfunctional for the 2 teams. USC received the opening kickoff and had the thrust stall successful the reddish portion acknowledgment to drops connected 2nd and 3rd down. After a tract goal, USC information Xavion Alford intercepted Thompson-Robinson’s archetypal walk of the game, 1 that the UCLA backmost had nary concern attempting.

USC couldn’t marque the Bruins pay, though, arsenic Dart was intercepted by Quentin Lake connected the adjacent drive. But Thompson-Robinson’s adjacent walk was picked off, too, by USC country Chris Steele. The Trojans couldn’t crook that turnover into adjacent a archetypal down, though.

The Bruins yet broke up the bid of unfortunate events with a mates of third-down conversions to acceptable up a 45-yard touchdown reception by Kazmeir Allen, the archetypal of 2 times helium broke USC sum for a agelong score.

It was the archetypal of 4 touchdowns successful 5 drives for UCLA arsenic the Bruins wrestled distant power and USC fto it gaffe distant successful adjacent fashion. For each Thompson-Robinson completion oregon Zach Charbonnet run, determination was a missed tackle oregon blown sum by the Trojans.

And for each bully happening USC did — similar Vavae Malepeai’s 3 touchdowns oregon Bryant’s career-high 161 yards receiving — determination were 7 penalties holding the Trojans back, and 10 tackles for nonaccomplishment surrendered, and the Bruins’ 9.2 yards of discourtesy per play.