With No. 5 Notre Dame and its fearsome front on tap Saturday, there’s no denying the leap USC’s offensive line has made.
It was the lowest moment of the season for USC’s young offensive line, a September nadir that seemed certain to linger long after the Trojans returned from their first Big Ten trip. But two months later, as Lincoln Riley looks back to where the tide started to turn for his Trojans front, the coach points, somewhat surprisingly, to that nightmarish afternoon in Ann Arbor. “Since then,” Riley said Tuesday, “I feel like we’ve been on a pretty steady incline the entire way.
” Chief among those successes has been Paige, the 6-foot-7 tackle who turned heads through training camp. But against Michigan, in his first true test at left tackle, Paige looked completely overmatched. His confidence continued to waver in the weeks that followed, as he struggled through what Paige deems “growing pains.” The middle of this season, he admits, “was rough.
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