The highly-touted recruit put the sport on notice with a 96-yard touchdown return against San Jose State.
LOS ANGELES — The freshman had shown flash, had drawn murmurs, sure, but he was buried.
Hours later, a small moment exploded as Branch detonated in the third quarter of a 56-28 USC blowout win, nabbing a pass from USC quarterback Williams and darting into the end zone for his first Trojans touchdown. It was momentous, the first dynamite connection of a combination that could soon become one of the most exciting duos in college football.
Truly, it’s downright impossible to overshadow Williams, who picked right back up where he left off with a magic-casting 2022 season in the second quarter, recovering a fumble on a snap miscommunication and in the same motion flinging a long dart to Washington for a 76-yard touchdown. And the USC quarterback laid little mercy on San Jose State’s defense in the inaugural game of a chase for another Heisman throwing for 278 yards and four touchdowns.
It was scintillating — and nearly enough to distract from an ugly start. Publicly, defensive coordinator Alex Grinch has the Trojans’ complete faith despite his unit’s late-season collapse last year, advocates pointing to a proven record of orchestrating defensive turnarounds from Washington State to Oklahoma. And Riley placedthis fall, telling the Southern California News Group his onetime hire at Oklahoma was “going to do it again.
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