Eric Gentry

I went back and watched the highlights to make sure.

And then the fourth quarter, Utah was kind of backed up if I remember it was like just like a second 13 or something like that and let him off the hook kind of with a roughing penalty on Nick Figueroa with a targeting he's out of the game Eric Gentry had already been taken out of the game because of an injury so USC was playing a little light there and at the end it couldn't get the final stop in that game at Utah the first time with Caleb Williams when they were trying to play him before they ended up replaying facing them again rematching in the Pac-12 championship game with I think that game ended up being 45, 43 or something like that, 43, 42.

I can't remember the game at Utah, but it was a fantastic environment.

I remember the moment of loudness and everything.

And sometimes there was three linebackers at the line of scrimmage, or at least in the front seven, in the box.

That was where they played Eric Gentry, and then you had Desmond Stevens playing next to, escapes me, who was the wheel linebacker in that game? lineup was it was it jayden walker no it wasn't jayden walker jayden walker played quite a bit against michigan maybe it was jayden walker it was jayden walker there was an injury and yeah jayden walker ended up playing yeah the two michigan boys they're playing against michigan and they played with their hair on fire they were attacking the line of scrimmage and it was sort of like the scheme they didn't believe that michigan could really pass the ball on them and they cried the line of scrimmage and we actually saw them playing with three down it was a completely different USC defense that we saw.

We haven't seen USC play defense like that since.

And to me, somebody's got to realize, why do we play so well against Michigan? Was it just Michigan that wasn't good offensively? Or were there some things that we did that allowed our players to play faster and didn't think so much? And so we're at this point now where you start to look at USC building on top of the 2026 class.