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    USC not scared, it's prepared

    by By Zach Helfand, Los Angeles Times Sep 01, 2017 3 minutes

    LOS ANGELES_Playing in high school or watching from the bench, a new player can forget one unchangeable fact about college football: The dominant emotion of the game is not excitement. It is not school pride. There are big men on the field trying to make you mess up. Trying to hurt you. The dominant emotion is fear.

    Above all else, that is what USC safety Chris Hawkins remembers about his first start four seasons ago against Fresno State.

    "I was

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