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Clayton Kershaw blew a kiss to his family, pounded a fist in his glove, then made the familiar trot from the Dodgers’ dugout to the Chavez Ravine mound.

Baltimore’s defense is trending up; the Ravens blew out Cleveland after a slow start.

Regrettably, nowhere in the two explanations were the words, “I just blew it.”

Nothing about USC’s first tour through Big Ten country had gone smoothly, as the Trojans bafflingly blew fourth-quarter leads in all four of their conference road tilts.

They were never ahead of Utah, which blew them out in their season opener.