LOS ANGELES – Might be kind of a personal question, but can I ask: How are you feeling about USC football?

Has this season’s team captured your heart yet at 4-0? Do you believe in these Trojans, in what they’re telling you with wins like Saturday’s eventual 45-31 dismantling of Michigan State in USC’s Big Ten matchup at the Coliseum?

Or are you perhaps finding all the flags to be red flags? Do you need more time? Still feeling some kind of way after being burned by the past couple disappointing seasons?

Personally, I think you should give these Trojans a chance.

Because if you stayed up for Big Ten After Dark – tame by the Pac-12’s dramatic old standards and offensively late by the Central Time Zone’s – you saw all of their most distinguished qualities.

You witnessed more of the

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