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Ducks reach new heights in USC win

By Ivan Maisel
ESPN.com

Saturday, October 31, 2009

EUGENE, Ore. -- For the first two months of the season, not one of the perennial college football powers has played well week after week. Each has won games with willpower instead of dominance, by knowing how to make a play late in the fourth quarter. None of them, however, had been exposed as a fraud until Saturday night. Meet the USC Trojans, phony as an ID in a 20-year-old's wallet. No. 5 USC's identity as a top team began to look suspect in the fourth quarter at Notre Dame two weeks ago. Th ...

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