LOS ANGELES — Michigan football traveled out west early this week to try and lessen the issues that plagued it last year against Washington.

It didn’t seem to work.

The 15th-ranked Wolverines were outplayed and overmatched on Saturday against the University of Southern California, mustering just two scores in a 31-13 loss at the sold-out Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

The loss drops the Wolverines to 4-2 on the season and 2-1 in Big Ten play, putting their playoff hopes in jeopardy at the midway point of the season.

Michigan yielded a season-worst 490 yards of offense to USC, whose explosive, high-powered attack sliced and diced its way through the air and on the ground.

Quarterback Jayden Maiava, the Big Ten’s leader in passing yards per game, finished 25 of 32 for 265 yards and a to

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