USC Trojans discuss the mindset of their team

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USC Trojans Defensive Tackle Devan Thompkins, coach Lincoln Riley, and quarterback Jayden Maiava discusses the mindset of their team. Thompkins talks about that they are playing to win no matter what happens with the season.

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00:01Coach, a lot of success, or how people view success in this world on the 1Ls,

00:05whether you make the playoff or not, but for you, how have you seen that this year has been a successful season so far?

00:10How do you guys have made it?

00:12Yeah, I mean, listen, I get the question.

00:14The season's not over.

00:16Like, we've got a game next week, so we're going to get ready for UCLA.

00:19We've won a bunch of games this year.

00:21The ones that haven't won, we've been right there.

00:23We've got a great opportunity to go get win number nine this week,

00:26and that's what we're going to put our focus towards.

00:28Devin, what do you see at the mindset of this team that's going to happen to this team?

00:34I would just say, no matter what happens, I believe that we're still just planning to win.

00:39We're just planning to win.

00:41That was the mindset coming into this game.

00:42That's the mindset going into my sweetest day.

00:46One more time.

00:51Yeah.

00:54Yeah, it's a judgment call,

00:56and, you know, they deemed that it wasn't enough to be a 15-yarder,

01:01and so, you know, those are ones that that one looked like to me it could have gone either way,

01:05and, you know, just, and we were far enough back after the, you know,

01:10we really thought about going for it there.

01:13It was close, but we were far enough back, and he ended up hitting a pretty good punt,

01:17so we ended up just rolling with the result of the kick.

01:21It was close, but we knew because it was close.

01:22It was close.

01:23It was close.

01:24It was close.

01:25It was close.

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