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How can Ohio State football beat USC? 3 keys for West Coast trip

Ohio State is a seven-point road favorite and USC has won eight of the last ten meetings; the Buckeyes need a Coliseum win that is eighty years overdue.

On air: Rex "Two-Point" Gridley and Kenji Moonfield on Wake Up, America
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  1. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorOhio State hasn't won at the Los Angeles Coliseum in eighty years, and Saturday they try again with no Julian Sayin.

  2. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentEighty years. So Yahoo's three keys are for a door nobody's opened since the Truman administration.

  3. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorTwo thousand eight, nineteen eighty-nine, sixty-three, fifty-nine. That's four break-ins, and they all got caught at the same door.

  4. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorKickoff is four-thirty Pacific.

  5. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentWho's the guy to watch?

  6. Rex "Two-Point" Gridley · Sports AnchorJeremiah Smith. Seven catches of forty yards or more, second-most in the country. And USC lost twenty-four to seven to Wisconsin, with minus-eighteen rushing yards.

  7. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMinus eighteen. They ran the ball and somehow gave yards back. I need that on a loop.

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  1. Ohio State stays No. 1 as top-10 teams keep losing · CBS Sports
  2. Ramaswamy loses Ohio venues over ad featuring Acton's mother · Hindustan Times
  3. Ohio State football at Indiana updates, injuries, storylines · Yahoo Sports
  4. Fantasy Week 8, USC's Riley, gene editing, J-Law hair care · CBS Sports
  5. King Charles dances in Nassau as Trump campaigns in Ohio · Yahoo
  6. Trump, Obama campaign in pivotal states; DHS breach; Curry ties LeBron · AP News
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