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At the end of a flawed and frustrating season, in the final minutes of a rivalry matchup that mattered purely for pride, King Miller took a handoff and saw nothing but open field in front of him.

All night long — all season long, really — very little had come easy for USC against UCLA . The Trojans struggled often at the line of scrimmage. Discipline lapsed. Mistakes snowballed. It was, for a while, a microcosm of what made USC’s season so uneven.

But through it all, Miller’s magic was constant. Ever since he stepped in for the Trojans’ top backs , two months earlier, the walk-on running back was USC’s biggest bright spot. And in that moment, with the final minutes running

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