One week after Iowa was stunned at home by Oregon, the Hawkeyes traveled to Los Angeles and got a gift from the elements, as a rainstorm belted Southern California and threatened to limit USC\u2019s high-flying offense.<\/p>\n
And it looked at first as though the combination of the weather and Iowa\u2019s physicality would prove too much for the Trojans to overcome. USC fell behind 21-7 in the first half, the type of lead that usually proves insurmountable against the Hawkeyes’ defense. Instead, however, USC finished the game on a 19-0 run for a massive 26-21 victory<\/a>. The Trojans\u2019 much-maligned defense held firm, giving time for quarterback Jayden Maiava (23-for-32, 254 passing yards, one touchdown) and superstar wide receivers Makai Lemon (10 catches, 153 receiving yards, one touchdown) and Ja\u2019Kobi Lane (seven catches, 65 yards) to power the comeback.<\/p>\n \u201cCulture win right there, man, if there ever was one,\u201d coach Lincoln Riley said after the game.<\/p>\n USC improved to 8-2 with the win to remain in the College Football Playoff race \u2014 for now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One week after Iowa was stunned at home by Oregon, the Hawkeyes traveled to Los Angeles and got…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":301887,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-301886","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}