{"id":93088,"date":"2025-11-08T16:17:29","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:17:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=93088"},"modified":"2025-11-08T16:17:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T23:17:55","slug":"usc-38-northwestern-17-postgame-notes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=93088","title":{"rendered":"USC 38 Northwestern 17 &#8211; Postgame Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"474\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/usc-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-88684\" srcset=\"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/usc-logo.jpg 474w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/usc-logo-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/usc-logo-70x52.jpg 70w, https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/usc-logo-150x112.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Information provided by Katie Ryan &#8211; Director of Football Communications <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n\n\n<p>USC POSTGAME NOTES<br>USC vs. Northwestern<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>United Airlines Field at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum | Los Angeles, Calif.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday, Nov. 7, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Team 1Q 2Q 3Q 4Q Final<br>Northwestern 7 7 3 0 17<br>USC 7 14 7 10 38<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>With the 38-17 win, the Trojans improve to 7-2 overall on the season and 5-1 in Big Ten play. Northwestern falls<br>to 5-4, 3-3.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>USC Head Coach Lincoln Riley is 41-0 when holding opponents to 20 points or less.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Trojans are now 6-0 all-time against the Wildcats.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Friday night\u2019s meeting was the third time Northwestern had visited the Coliseum, with the previous two match-<br>ups in Los Angeles coming in 1952 and 1969.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Friday was the first meeting between the two teams since the 1996 Rose Bowl, a game USC won 41-32. The<br>1996 Rose Bowl MVP Keyshawn Johnson led USC out of the tunnel before Friday night\u2019s contest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>WR Makai Lemon had a career-high 161 receiving yards and matched his career-high receptions with 11. It<br>was his fourth 100+ yard receiving game of the season, surpassing his previous career high of 158 yards against<br>Georgia Southern (Sept. 6).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lemon also had a 4-yard TD run with 11:14 left in the fourth quarter for his second rushing TD of the season.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>QB Jayden Maiava kicked off the game with a TD pass to WR Makai Lemon on the opening drive and then<br>ran for a 6-yard TD on USC\u2019s second drive, marking the third time this season Maiava has had a rushing and<br>passing TD in the same game.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Maiava\u2019s 10-yard TD pass to WR Ja\u2019Kobi Lane with 7:56 left in the third quarter was his second TD pass of<br>the game and his 17th of the season. Maiava\u2019s 17 TD passes match his single-season career high from his 2023<br>season at UNLV.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RB King Miller broke a 55-yard run with 2:35 in the second quarter. It was Miller\u2019s second run over 50 yards,<br>behind his 75-yard run against Missouri State (Aug. 30). It was also his fifth run of 40+ yards this season.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Miller rushed for 127 yards against the Wildcats, marking his third 100+ yard rushing total in the last four games.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>TE Lake McRee\u2019s 42-yard reception with 7:26 in the second quarter was his second longest reception of the<br>season, behind his 64-yard reception against Missouri State (Aug. 30).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Trojans ran their first fake punt of the season with 14:24 in the second quarter as QB Sam Huard complet-<br>ed a 10-yard pass to WR Tanook Hines for a first down.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The USC defense held Northwestern to just 3 points in the second half, marking the second straight game the<br>Trojans have held an opponent to 3 points in the second half after doing the same against Nebraska last week.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Trojans have had four halves this season where they have held an opponent to just three points, including<br>the first half against Purdue (Sept. 13) and the second half against Missouri State (Aug. 30).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The Trojans held Northwestern to 280 yards of total offense, marking the second straight game and third time<br>this season that USC has held an opponent under 300 yards of total offense (vs. Missouri State, Aug. 30 and vs. Nebraska, Nov.1). <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information provided by Katie Ryan &#8211; Director of Football Communications<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[871],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-college"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93089,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93088\/revisions\/93089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}