Jayden Maiava passed for three touchdowns and rushed for two more scores as No. 25 Southern California answered a second-half Michigan State rally to beat the Spartans 45-31 on Saturday night in Los Angeles.

USC (4-0, 2-0 Big Ten Conference) built a two-touchdown lead by intermission, scoring on the second of Maiava's scoring passes and the first snap after a lengthy delay due to a serious injury to Michigan State linebacker Wayne Matthews III.

Matthews remained on the turf after he collided with Trojans running back Waymond Jordan. Medical staff tended to him, eventually moving Matthews onto a stretcher as he was carted off the field and taken to a nearby hospital.

Matthews was the second Spartans linebacker tasked with manning the defense's communications system who was removed from S

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