>> brian: looks like a first down -- >> steve: i got a chain link there, pal. >> brian: okay. maybe two. >> steve: for the sake of argument, we'll call it third and one. >> brian: if it were me, i'm going to give it to the best player on your offense tonight, that's zack moss. and i'm going to run right be hind their best offensive lineman, the left guard. 320 pounds. >> steve: and what's the next play you're call, because you know it's four-down territory. >> todd: what do you say, levy, take a shot? >> steve: even more. even the aggressive play-caller that i am, would not take a shot

deep down the field here. third and one. give it to moss. that was a slow developing handoff. looked like williams was thinking about maybe pulling that back out of his belly. >> brian: i don't like the zone read in short yardage situations, because you force the quarterback to make a decision and any indecision in the back's mind slows them down from getting to the line of scrimmage. i just like turn around, handing it to him on a power play and letting him go. >> steve: fourth down. they're going to bring the sticks out. and this is not necessarily the ball game, with utah still having all three time-outs left. >> brian: correct. >> steve: still big nonetheless. >> brian: yeah, he lost yardage.

you know, we have not seen any of this speed option from troy williams, but i know that's in the attack, he's not the dynamic runner that tyler huntley is, but sometimes in fourth down situations, defenses are so backed inside, they're vulnerable on the outside. >> steve: how about sneak? williams off the play fake. rolling to his right, has a man wide open! it's his tight end down inside the 5 yard line. >> brian: what a play call from troy taylor. you mentioned it. they all get wadded up on fourth and short and you get out there and i know, as a quarterback,

you got him wide open on the outside. and you make him pay. >> steve: the senior from salt lake city -- that might be his first catch of the season. >> brian: wow. what a great play call. >> steve: down to the 2. on first and goal. here's williams. he'll be short. second and goal. clock winding. >> brian: if i'm utah, i'm letting as much clock come off as possible. i don't want to leave any time on the clock. unlike the fourth and short, where i doesn't like the zone read, down here, i do like the zone read, because you get the numbers with the quarterback run, and troy williams can put it in just as easily as moss can. >> steve: red zone has been an issue for utah all season long.

this is second and goal from the 1 -- let's see. before the snap -- zeros on the play clock. they get the time-out? they did. >> referee: utah has taken its first time-out of the half. 30-second time-out. >> steve: 46 seconds left. we'll say regulation time now. utah down seven. at the six-inch line when we come back. [ all ] bees! [ all ] bees! the volkswagen atlas. with easy-access 3rd row. life's as big as you make it. wendy's new chicken tenders are perfectly crispy and tender. and with a new side of s'awesome sauce they're even better. so now the question is... to dip or not to dip? for a limited time, try the new chicken tenders with

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>> steve: back just in time. from the six-inch line. utah trying to tie. there's the quarterback, williams. hops in. touchdown, utes. we are an extra point away from a tie game. >> brian: what a drive. >> steve: let me ask you this. crazy talk for a second. would you ever consider going for two in this spot? with the way usc has moved the football, up and down the field at will in this second half? >> brian: yeah, i would consider it, yeah, absolutely. and i think kyle whittingham is considering it also because their offense is still on the field. >> steve: so, not that crazy.

>> brian: no, you're smart. >> todd: he specifically asked for the left hash, too. >> brian: you're right. everything to do with his defense. >> steve: this might be winning or losing time, right here, with 42 seconds left. >> brian: they've got simpkins in the backfield. remember, simpkins was the one that threw the touchdown pass back to williams in the first half. >> steve: and mccormick in the backfield, as well. so, with those two guys in the backfield, i guarantee you, clay helton and clancy pendergast say, let's use our last time-out. those two guys are speed guys, which tells them perimeter play. might change up their defense. the problem is that they've -- the cat's out of the bag, with

respect to similarsimpkins. they know he can throw it now. >> steve: simpkins threw for a touchdown and caught a touchdown. that's when utah was scoring. late in the second quarter. >> brian: so, troy taylor has changed up now, he took similar p kins out and mccormick out and he's got moss in the backfield. >> steve: what a decision by kyle whittingham. here's williams. trying to get there for the lead, he'll come up short. he'll be stopped. harris forced the issue for the trojans. so, williams comes up short and utah might be short, as well. down a point.

with 42 seconds left. for all the talk of the offense for usc, it's the defense that holds. >> brian: he had a chance. they wanted to run a throwback to the tight end. well covered by sc, and credit to harris for coming up and making that play. his eyes were down. he had carrington in the back of the end zone. if he would have kept his eyes up, he could have flipped it to him for the conversion, but he never kept his eyes up. and for that reason, sc comes up with the stop. >> steve: onside kick is coming. utah still has two time-outs left. >> brian: here's carrington. he's this the back of the end zone. watch as williams flushes, he's wide open. >> steve: oh, my. >> brian: if he keeps his eyes upfield, he would have had the

conversion. that's going to be one that troy williams will be haunted by. >> steve: i still like the decision. >> brian: i agree. >> steve: i still like the coaching decision to go for two there. >> brian: with the way it's gone in the second half, i completely agree with you. >> steve: mish wishnowsky. will go for the onside kick. will not get the bounce that he wanted. sc had the hands team and we've seen tyler vaughns hands all night. >> brian: you have to give credit, too, to kyle whittingham for making that call. that's incredibly difficult has a head coach, in this environment, on the road against this team, to make that call, to go for two and -- >> steve: he'll be second-guessed for a long time about this. >> brian: he will, he knows that, but to still have the guts to make the call. what a game they played tonight.

troy williams was outstanding. zack moss, i give my game ball to him. unbelievable effort on the road. >> steve: 42 seconds left on the clock. two time counts still left for utah. darnold will run around there and kill some clock. >> brian: at the end of the day, right, it's those three long touchdown drives in the second half for sc offensively. one drive, it was all darnold making plays. extending plays. next drive, it was the offensive line of ronald jones. it was a team effort, a team win tonight for clay helton's team. >> steve: just five seconds came off the clock there. so impressed, too, by utah, who could have fall on the the side and yet they manage a great touchdown drive themselves, to put them in position to win. >> brian: yep. >> steve: they could have folded

up after usc moved up and down the field, erased their big lead, but they did not. what a ball game this has been tonight here in los angeles. >> brian: back and forth. unbelievable game. and how about the way sam darnold responded after the way he started the game, three turnovers? was -- got a little glimpse into the heart and the guts and the grit of number 14 for usc. >> steve: last time-out there for utah. >> brian: so, now sc goes on the road. notre dame, right? and notre dame, nobody's talking about notre dame, but they're creeping around, you know, six, seven in the country and notre dame's got, you know, players galo galore. that's going to be a whale of a ball game next week. but if they can get through that, look at what sc has on the rest of their schedule. i mean, they're a heavy favorite to get to santa clara and potentially meet up with the huskies of washington.

>> steve: pac-12 dramatically changing, i think, after last night's events. third and 19 here. and the clock will wind. and that will do it. what a ball game here tonight. brk awesome. >> steve: and i mean, these players will feel the effects of this game into next week. >> brian: cam smith, the linebacker for sc, and zack m s moss, those two guys, they gave us a treat tonight. that was fun to watch. >> steve: it was all utah early. tough times for sam darnold, a first half he would like to forget. and in the end, he battles back and leads his team to a victory. he's standing by with todd mcshay. >> todd: thank you, steve. look at this game, the first hatch, the offensive struggles

and then second half, it clicks, 21 points. what was the difference, man? >> i think we just got rolling. we found a rhythm and, you know, just -- it felt good to get a rhythm. and, you know, to be on the same page with the receivers, the o-line was on the same page and, you know, that's what happens, you know? we're a great team. we believe we are. and when we're on the same page, when we don't beat ourselves, we're hard to stop. >> todd: how big was your defense tonight? >> oh, my gosh. the defense was huge. we couldn't be in the position we're in today, getting that win without our defense. appreciate it, bro. but it's a great team win. we'll look at the film, get better, as well. >> todd: congratulations. >> thank you. >> steve: i think todd and sam really covered that all. you talk about the offense, the great drives and yet with all the great drives in the end, it was still the defense of the trojans that had to make the play to save the game. >> brian: and specifically in the first half, too, they played excellent defense. this is a game when clay helton looks at the film, so many areas for improvement.

the first half offensively, but so many good things to build on, the heart and the passion and the fight in this team in the second half was impressive. >> steve: we like night games, huh? games are better at night. final score, southern cal defeats utah 28-27 in a thriller. tonight's game was produced by bill bonn nel and directed by derek mobley. next week, state college. big ten battle. michigan and penn state with chris, herbie and maria. for brian griese and todd mcshay, i'm steve levy. let's go to the ford wrapup and cassidy hubbarth. >> usc avoids the upset, but week seven was not short of shockers. the crazy got started early, too, with two top ten teams going down last night. and the carnage at the top carried over to today. to the s.e.c., with lsu hosting auburn. fourth quarter, fourth and ten. auburn down four. last chance.

and jarrett stidham sacked. lsu gets the win in death valley. now, while auburn was knocked off by lsu, the two other s.e.c. teams in the top ten cruised to blow out victories. top ranked alabama won 41-9 over arkansas, while number four georgia beat missouri 53-28. so, one and four win easy, but miami was sweating in the fourth. daryl langham makes the crazy catch to keep miami alive. and miami would kick a field goal for the win and to improve to 5-0 for the first time since 2013. now, no issues for number six tcu, who withstood multiple weather delays in a 26-6 win over kansas state. and number seven wisconsin also stayed unbeaten with a 17-9 win against purdue. meanwhile, j.t. barrett looking like 2014 j.t. recently. big name at nebraska, leading eight scoring drives on their first eight possessions. he ran for two touchdowns and threw for five. he completed passes to ten different receivers and accounted for almost 400 total

yards in the win. we will see yet another upset this weekend? pac-12 after dark continues. go check out number five washington, trailing arizona state 10-0, currently in the second quarter over on espn. and after the u-dub game goes final, it's "sportscenter" at night. herbie will discuss alabama's dominance, and how about the walkoff history in houston? thanks for watching the ford wrapup, presented by the new 2018 ford escape. also unstoppable. go slow. ♪ come on mom! ♪ let's go! ♪ mom! slow down! for the ones who keep pushing. always unstoppable.

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♪ action news. delaware valley's leading news program. with meteorologist melissa mcgee. jeff skversky. and walter perez. >> as you can see, a bit foggy out there. a bit on the warm side for mid-october. live look at center city from our temple university camera at the skyline of philadelphia. a lovely night to spend outdoors. saturday night, i'm walter perez, the big story on action news is a really warm day on tap for tomorrow to end the weekend. today was mild. and tomorrow, expecting highs in the 80s. melissa mcgee with the first check of the accuweather forecast. >> yeah, walter. much warmer into the second half of the weekend. on sunday the temperatures are supposed to warm up into the 80s. today wasn't a bad start even

though we did have a lot of clouds. despite that, temperatures were above average. 73 was the high today in philadelphia. wilmington, 72, allentown, 70. 69 for -- and quakertown. and holding 60s along the i-95 corridor. up in the poconos, 55. down in dover, 66 degrees. cape may at the coast in at 67. here is satellite 6 along with action radar. still a mostly cloudy sky across the region, but tracking the frontal boundary off to the north that will stay to the north tonight into tomorrow. but because of that with we'll start to tap into a south or southwesterly wind flow throughout the day and because of that, temperatures warming up into the 80s. so the humidity returns tomorrow. more of a summer feel for sunday. a few showers likely tomorrow night. once the cold front novembers through, a beautiful fall stretch next week. take a look at the full and

exclusive accuweather forecast. >> thank you. developing news from california, at least 40 people have now been killed in the devastated wildfires sweeping across the golden state. some 100,000 people have been forced to evacuate. and while fire fighters are making progress, more than 57,000 homes and businesses have already been damaged or destroyed. we get the latest now from maggie ruly in santa rosa. >> reporter: gusty winds and dry conditions fanning wildfires racing towards wineries and towns across california. >> i grew up here. it's never going to be the same. >> reporter: more than 220,000 acres charred. buildings destroyed. >> the devastation is unbelievable. it's a horror nobody can imagine. >> so many friends with homes burned down. >> reporter: police going door do door. >> sheriff's office, mandatory evacuation. >> reporter: the sea know ma

valley, the wildfire is dangerous. helicopters and airplanes non-stop trying to put out the flames. but the wall of smoke just keeps getting closer and closer. more than 9,000 fire fighters are battlings the flames with bulldozers, tanker planes planed their own hands. they're starting to get ahead of a few of the fires. some are nearly 50% contained. in a rare bit of good news. >> izzy is here! izzy! come here, baby! >> oh, my god. hey, baby! >> reporter: brothers returning back to their family home find charred remains and their family pet, izzy who survived. >> tears and happiness. tonight, hearing about the extraordinary story of survival by a family held hostage by the taliban for five years. joshua

boyle and caitlan coleman from pennsylvania along with their three children arrived at boyle's parents home in ontario. they went on what they called a hiking vacation in afghanistan in 2012. coleman was seven months pregnant. she gave birth to at least three children. boyle says their captors killed a forty baby. >> the stupidity and the evil of the haqqani kidnapping of a pilgrim and his heavily present wifes eclipsed by the stupidity and evil by murdering my infant daughter. >> boyle confirmed that his wife had been raped by their captors. the family was freed by the pakistani military. harvey weinstein east membership to the academy of arts and sciences was revoked today during an emergency sessions following reports by the new york times and the new

yorker revealing sexual harassment and rape allegations going back three decades. this move by the academy is virtually unprecedented. last week he was ousted from the weinstein company which he cofounded with his brother, bob. and his brother said today he was a bully and he's mortified and disgusted. a shooting at a well known recording studio. a man found dead in the building on north third street. jeff chirico has the story. >> reporter: usually opened around the clock, the recording studio inside this building are still offlimits. earlier in the evening homicide detectives were on scene so investigate the shooting death of a 30-year-old man at 444 north third street. they found a black man shot in the head and back. he died at the scene. a bloody screwdriver was found not far from the victim. according to facebook page, they

rent out recording booths to musical artists. the studio owner wrote, quote, i don't know what happened at this time. i'm seeing the image of my life's dream being destroyed. i'm just a little too distraught to talk. we saw musicians arrive for scheduled time, they were turned away. the studio is closed until monday. police have not publicly named a suspect. jeff chirico, channel 6 action news. a small group of white supremacists staged a march today near boat house row in philadelphia. carrying flags and some wearing masks were met by counterprotestors as they gathered near a viking statue. police were on hand to keep the peace. no serious incidents were reported. authorities in burlington county found victims shot at 7:30. one was taken to our lady of lord's medical center. no word on how the other is

doing. no arrests so far. from our delaware news room, police say this man, 19-year-old jonathan snyder was among a group of teenagers who lured a domino's delivery man and robbed him. two 17-year-olds jumped out from bushes and demanded pizza and cash. the three were arrested after being stopped before an unrelated traffic offense. it was a frustrating commute today for anyone trying to fake the pennsylvania turnpike north of allentown. crews shut down a huge stretch of the northeast extension as they worked to replace a 60-year-old bridge. crews are demolishing the current bridge and moving a new one into place. bob brooks spoke with drivers who had a really hard day. >> you can expect to drive in the 20s or slower, even if the speed limit is 70. also, expect to sit in bumper to bumper action. this is on the turnpike's

northeast extension just before allentown. yes, as you can imagine, there's some frustration. >> what would have been a three hour commute is probably four and a half. >> reporter: a portion of the extension is closed this weekend. they're putting in a new bridge. a lot of drives wish they had done a little research ahead of time. p i would have got off at quakertown and taken the road in. >> reporter: the closure is from the mahoney valley interchange, 74 to lehigh valley, 56. 22 to 33 and then i-80. the time lapse from the turnpike is from a similar project done in western pennsylvania. you can see the old bridge is removed and the new slides slowly right into place. where are you trying to go? >> to bushkill falls, p.a. >> reporter: the longer drive means a little extra time in the car. in the 21st century, that means for