LOS ANGELES — USC football coach Lincoln Riley dialed up his most creative trick play of the season at the start of the second quarter against Northwestern on Friday night.

The No. 20 Trojans lined up in punt formation on a fourth-and-6, but Sam Johnson wasn’t lined up at punter. Instead, it was third-string quarterback Sam Huard, who had officially changed his jersey number to 80 – which matches Johnson’s – for the game.

Huard, who wore No. 7 earlier this season before the team quietly made the change, stepped forward as if to punt, but quickly changed course and dropped back for a 10-yard pass to Tanook Hines .

Huard, who is a couple of inches shorter than the 6-foot-3 Johnson, grinned widely as he high-fived his teammates on the way off the field. He is a former five-star recruit w

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