Matt Barkley gives USC one to grow on

Matt Barkley gives USC one to grow on

From Columbus, Ohio

The word kid is gone, vanishing within a pack of bouncing, braying teammates who rode him through a stomach-dropping Saturday night.
“He’s not a kid anymore, he’s a man,” said USC’s Joe McKnight.
The word risk is also gone, smothered under the prone, heaving jerseys of the guys who were flattened.
“They just pounded it down our throats,” said Ohio State’s Austin Spitler.

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9/13/9