The Trojans scored their first second-half points and only touchdown in the game with 6:55 left in the fourth quarter to take a 16-13 lead on a Jayden Maiava scramble into a 4-yard touchdown pass to Ja’Kobi Lane in the back corner of the end zone.

Jayden Maiava’s first start as USC’s signal caller may have begun with a rookie mistake, but it ended in triumph. A first-quarter pick-six put the Trojans in a 7-0 hole and threatened to derail the redshirt sophomore’s full debut.

Jayden Maiava grew up watching Marcus Mariota win the Heisman Trophy and cheering while Tua Tagovailoa led Alabama to a national championship.