Several protesters sit and lock arms at midfield before the start of the Trojans’ Pac-12 showdown with the Golden Bears in Berkeley
Protesters sit at the 50-yard line preventing the start of USC’s football game against California on Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023, at Memorial Stadium in Berkeley. BERKELEY, Calif. — It was so unsurprising, given the setting under the leaning forests of the Berkeley hills, that there was hardly a stir among tens of thousands when their football game didn’t start on time.
Cal has long been a pillar of student right-to-free-speech, on-campus protests interwoven into the institution’s history, Cal just a few days earlier seeing ain support of Palestine amid the international Israel-Palestine conflict, as reported by Berkeleyside.
But with little less than an hour before kickoff, Riley’s customary white visor emerged from the locker room, and he assumed the headset during pregame introductions.A USC secondary already hit hard with injury got hit worse Saturday, as redshirt freshman safety Zion Branch was helped off the field to the medical tent in the second quarter. Branch was starting in place of the injured Max Williams, who didn’t dress for the second straight day.
“Bear has been an awesome player for us, and he was broken up about the penalty,” Riley said postgame. “That was the one that really gave them some life.”After Alexander’s fearsome start creating havoc in the middle of USC’s defensive line, his impact had lessened ever since a tough game against Colorado. Against Utah, though, he recorded five pressures and three hits, as the rest of USC’s line struggled to keep tabs on shifty quarterback Barnes.
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