The USC Trojans picked up a 28-20 win over the Nebraska Cornhuskers on Saturday afternoon to improve to 5-5 and better their chances of reaching bowl eligibility with only two games left in the season against the UCLA Bruins and Notre Dame Fighting Irish.

As the Huskers and their travel party left the area of the visitor’s locker room at the L.A. Coliseum on Saturday after another one-score Nebraska defeat — the ninth in 22 games under coach Matt Rhule — they grabbed plastic containers of lasagna and chicken alfredo and walked slowly up a long ramp toward the row of buses that would carry them on the first leg of their journey back to Lincoln.

Big Ten opponents match up when the USC Trojans (4-5) and the Nebraska Cornhuskers (5-4) play on Saturday, November 16, 2024 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The contest will air on FOX, at 4

The search for bowl eligibility for the Nebraska Cornhuskers continues. NU fell at USC 28-20 Saturday. The Huskers are now 5-5 on the year and 2-5 in Big Ten play. The Trojans improve to 5-5 and are now 3-5 in the league.

Nebraska fell short against USC in offensive coordinator Dana Holgorsen’s debut. I've dated tech bros in San Francisco and New York. The men in one city made me never want to move back.

Saturday was the seventh of their 10 games decided by eight points or less. They won the first one, against LSU on a neutral field in Las Vegas, but had dropped the next five. And it’s nearly a guarantee that Trojan fans – who had reason to be as fatalistic as Dodger fans were before this most recent postseason – were fearing the worst as Nebraska marched down the field in the final 2:45.