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USC Trojans Coach Lincoln Riley, Jayden Maiava, and Jamaal Jarrett discusses how fired up the Trojans were to play
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00:00Okay, yeah, I'm really, really proud of the win, a unique day with obviously the delay, you know, the time difference, kind of all that.
00:08I thought, you know, yeah, I give our team a lot of credit that they handled it well.
00:12You know, strength staff, nutrition staff did a really good job in keeping these guys prepared, fed, kind of ready to go.
00:18And I give our team a lot of credit because even during the delay, it was like a lightning strike, like every few minutes just kept pushing it back.
00:24And we were trying to get our guys to get off their feet, and honestly, they were like so pumped and ready to play.
00:29We actually had to like calm them down.
00:31So I thought they mentally just really stayed into it the entire time.
00:34It was like we don't really even care what time the game starts.
00:37Just let us know.
00:37We're going to be ready to go.
00:38And I thought that was the mentality throughout the entire locker room.
00:42And so proud and excited about that.
00:46You know, there were some big momentum plays in the game.
00:48We made some.
00:48We had to withstand a few.
00:50And I thought our guys kept their poise and did a really good job executing in some critical situations.
00:56Made some big plays.
00:57Obviously, Jaw's big fumble return was, you know, probably the single biggest play of the game.
01:02And, you know, really proud of it.
01:04Proud of the way we played defensively, just how impactful we are.
01:06We gave up, you know, kind of the one was kind of a fluke play that we actually snuffed out and probably should have been a pick six.
01:11And so, you know, even despite that, you know, we made plays.
01:14We still have a few penalties that we have to clean up.
01:16But we're very, very impactful.
01:19Offensively made some big plays but didn't play quite as clean as we would expect to play and had a few other opportunities to close it out.
01:25But particularly proud of the last drive.
01:27And we chewed a lot of clock.
01:28I don't know exactly what it was.
01:30But we chewed a lot there at the end.
01:31So that was good to see us as a team just finish a game on the road.
01:35So road games in a conference like this are tough.
01:38They always are.
01:39You know, you're going to get an opponent's best shot.
01:41And it's cool to walk in here and get our first conference win, our first road win.
01:45And looking forward to what's ahead.
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