I like to look ahead. When USC plays UCLA, what happens if the Trojans still have two losses and UCLA is undefeated, would Lincoln Riley skip the Thursday night rally for the fifth straight year?

Riley definitely would not want to go but would he feel obligated because of the circumstances of the game?

Frankly, it might embolden him even more to skip the event because he would be so proud of losing two games.

• The line for the USC-Indiana took a huge jump today, going from 7 points to 11 points at Circa. What caused it?

• Steve Harvey, a USC and Daily Trojan alum, who created the Bottom 10 column, and worked many years for the Los Angeles Times, has died. He was 80.