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USC Trojans Quarterback Jayden Maiava, Coach Lincoln Riley, and defensive tackle Alex VanSumeren discusses their loss to Indiana. Riley talks about how he is disappointed with the loss and they prepped well. He also talks about how they made mistakes and how play for play was pretty even.
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00:00All right, yeah, very, very disappointed with the loss.
00:06We prepped really well coming in this game.
00:08I thought all sides of the ball had some very positive moments,
00:15but ultimately we made too many mistakes in this game
00:19and a game like this with two really good football teams.
00:23Some of the penalties, missed opportunities in the red zone,
00:29and some of the dropped interceptions.
00:31I mean, we had some real opportunities to go win this game
00:34because, honestly, kind of play for play.
00:36It was a slugfest.
00:38I mean, it was two really good teams going at it.
00:40Play for play was probably pretty even.
00:44But a couple of the big third downs that we didn't get stops on,
00:49a couple of the red zone opportunities that we didn't get touchdowns on,
00:52missed two field goals, penalties.
00:55We had too many mistakes.
00:56We played hard.
00:57I thought we played physical.
01:00I thought we were really resilient throughout the game.
01:02We gave ourselves some really tremendous opportunities to win this game
01:05and very disappointed to not get it done.
01:09We've definitely come a long way as a program,
01:11but we've still obviously here got a little ways to go.
01:14And closing out games like that are what you got to do to be the best.
01:19And we're right there close tonight.
01:22This game came down to a couple of plays.
01:26And we did a good job putting ourselves there,
01:28but we got to go shut the door, and we understand that.
01:30So we're going to get back to work.
01:34We've got senior day in our last game at the Coliseum coming up,
01:38which is really important to our group,
01:39and then a big rivalry game after that.
01:41So we're going to get back on the plane, get back to L.A.,
01:46correct what we need to correct, and get on to the next one.

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