LOS ANGELES — You paid for a Mercedes-Benz. You don’t expect to be trucking up the hill in a Subaru. I get it.

You’ve got the third-highest paid coach in all the land, you expect to ride in luxury – like you have in the past, when your USC football team started so many seasons by simply plugging in the coordinates for a national championship coronation and either arriving there in style, or parking pretty close by.

But still. You could do a lot worse than a Subaru, reliable and rugged. And you might even find you enjoy the view more when you’ve started at the bottom and not the top (especially as precarious as that perch has been this season, with weekly shakeups and half of the Associated Press’s Top 10 having vacated those spots if not tumbling out of the top-25 ranking entirely)

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