USC jumped three spots to No. 16 in the Associated Press top 25 poll released Sunday.
The Trojans went through a bye week in an attempt to get on the same page and improve their health and mistakes.
“This bye week comes at a good time for us,” head coach Lincoln Riley said Tuesday. “We knew the first seven here — it was going to be a heavy push here in the beginning of the season but then the schedule sets up pretty well for us now, in terms of being able to get some rest [and] continuing to develop the rest of this roster, which I think we’ve done a pretty nice job of developing here through the first seven games. And we’re going to need them as we go forward.”…