As history repeated itself, Brian Kelly had his guys playing prevent defense, when their regular defense had been doing a reasonably good job earlier.
Still, Miller Moss looked sharp the whole game, and the offensive line looked much more comfortable, knowing that he was going to stay in the pocket as a dropback passer.
Last year, USC's offensive line wasn't very good at all, since they were constantly having to shift on the fly because of "Fingernails" taking off running right as WR3 or WR4 were getting open.