Holiday Bowl Report Card: Grading the USC Defense

The Holiday Bowl presented the USC defense with the tough challenge of prepping without a complete staff, but the Trojans were still disappointing against a vanilla Wisconsin attack.

Here’s how each defensive unit graded out against the Badgers:

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