CU Buffs throttled by USC at home, 37-14, extending losing streak to 4 games

BOULDER — The Buffs’ bye week can’t get present soon enough.

CU’s shot losing streak deed 4 games connected Saturday afternoon. And it deed it astatine astir 150 miles per hour, acknowledgment to a 37-14 thrashing delivered by USC.

And portion the opponents’ names person changed the past 3 weekends, the publication for the Buffs, sadly, has not: CU had managed lone 137 passing yards — 65 connected them coming connected 1 play — done the game’s archetypal 3 quarters.

The Buffs’ defense, meanwhile, was connected its backmost ft astir from the get-go, arsenic the Trojans had 437 yards done 3 quarters.

The Buffs (1-4, 0-2 Pac-12) person adjacent play off, past big slumping Arizona connected Oct. 16.

USC is present 15-0 all-time against CU, 10-0 since the second began playing successful the Pac-12 for the 2011 season.

Saturday’s effect was the largest borderline of triumph for the Men of Troy against the Buffs since October 2014, erstwhile USC rolled to a 56-28 win. More brackish successful the wound: It was besides the largest borderline of triumph for the Trojans successful Boulder since 2011 (42-17, 25 points). USC (3-2, 2-2) was coming disconnected a 45-27 nonaccomplishment astatine location to Oregon State.

Which wasn’t to accidental determination weren’t agleam spots, nevertheless fleeting. With six minutes near successful the 3rd quarter, Buffs backmost Brendon Lewis scanned the tract and completed his astir awesome flip of the season, hitting a wide-open Brady Russell for a catch-and-run of 65 yards — CU’s longest violative play of the season. Russell,a choky end, got escaped down the USC defence and galloped to the Trojans’ 9.

The unreality wrong that metallic lining?

The Buffs trailed 30-7 astatine the time.

Down 20-7 astatine the break, the Buffs opened the 2nd fractional brightly, driving 31 yards connected 5 plays to commencement the 3rd quarter. But connected 3rd-and-6 from the CU 48, Lewis dropped backmost to walk and got smothered from his unsighted broadside connected a sack by the Trojans’ Grant Jackson, who ripped the shot distant and rumbled with the stone each the mode to the Buffs’ 29-yard line.

USC didn’t beforehand overmuch aft that, but tacked connected a 49-yard tract extremity to propulsion its pb to 16 points, 23-7.

The temper was downright dour until 4:01 near successful the archetypal half, CU down 20-0, erstwhile CU antiaircraft extremity Guy Thomas stuck his manus successful to punch the shot escaped from USC tailback Keaontay Ingram, who’d breached escaped for a 17-yard gain. Buffs information Mark Perry fell connected the escaped shot astatine the Trojans’ 48-yard line, and for the archetypal clip each afternoon, CU was successful business.

The hosts responded to the interruption and a invited alteration successful momentum, punching it successful for a people aft six plays, including a spirited 13-yard catch-and-run from Lewis to Russell connected 2nd-and-7 to the USC 6. Two plays later, CU tailback Deion Smith outran the Trojans defence wide near into the extremity portion from the Buffs’ 2-yard line.

With reps from a twelve NFL teams successful attendance, including Broncos wide manager George Paton, it was the Trojans’ prospects who enactment connected a show.

In a crippled that featured the instrumentality of erstwhile CU wideout K.D. Nixon, who transferred to USC aft past season, the prima of the time was different Trojans receiver — Drake London. The 6-foot-5 junior, a precocious flyer who besides plays for the Trojan men’s hoops team, was a lucifer from Hades for the Buffs.  And erstwhile USC unlocked the cheat code, the Buffs were successful trouble.

The Men of Troy’s last thrust of the archetypal 4th proved to beryllium a lawsuit successful point. On the archetypal play of the series, USC QB Kedon Slovis lofted a slice for his large people for a 29-gain to the CU 35. On 1st-and-20 from the Buffs’ 29, USC took the Fade-To-London bid again, different rainbow that No 15 brought down this clip astatine the CU 1.

After a tally for nary gain, The Trojans went backmost to the well, with Slovis chucking different leap shot London’s way, to which the wideout extended his arms adjacent the beforehand near pylon to haul successful USC’s archetypal touchdown of the day with 1:59 near successful the archetypal quarter.

A contention that oddsmakers pegged to beryllium person than it played retired — the Buffs were 7.5-to-nine-point underdogs arsenic of Saturday greeting — was marked by sloppiness and chippiness.  CU went into the halftime interruption with 70 yards successful penalties connected six flags, compared to 88 yards of discourtesy connected 25 snaps.

Which wasn’t a surprise, fixed that some programs came successful ranked among the bottommost 40 of FBS schools successful punishment yards per crippled — the Buffs with 62.3 yards per crippled (No. 89), the Trojans, 69.8 (tied for 102nd).