LOS ANGELES — The entire USC football team has been doing tackling drills this week. Not just the defense. It’s everybody.

“We’re doing a couple things on the field as a whole team,” defensive end Braylan Shelby told reporters after practice on Wednesday.

“We’re just doing it on the bags and things like that, but it’s just getting back to being in those positions because you never know when you’re going to end up on offense doing something like that. It’s good to have everybody do that and just be better collectively as a team.”

USC (5-2 overall, 3-1 Big Ten) had a season-high 10 missed tackles in its 34-23 loss to Notre Dame , which once again brings a football fundamental back into focus.

“Still tackling,” defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn said of the work for this bye week. “It’s

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