Utah State was hoping to play spoiler to USC after the Trojans were riding high following a win over then-No. 13 LSU last week. Reality proved to be as far away from that hope as potentially possible as USC moved up-and-down the field at will while the Aggies failed to go anywhere in an eventual 48-0 shutout victory for the Trojans. Last season’s struggles against the run for Utah State were hoped to be a thing of the past, but the first two drives from USC yielded 133 rushing yards, let alone the eventual 249 the Trojans had for the entire game. With such overall efficiency, USC was virtually unstoppable on offense. And setting aside a fumble the Aggies forced and recovered in the second quarter, the Trojans scored points on each of their first seven drives of the game. “The whole object on defense was to create long drives, and when the opportunity comes, capitalized on a mistake. The only problem was, they didn’t make any mistakes so we couldn’t when they didn’t capitalize on it,” Dreiling said. “Our players were a little shell-shocked. Weren’t really playing our type of football and appeared in our run fits. “Once they