Trojan

For Waymond Jordan, ankle surgery meant missing most of the Trojans’ critical stretch run.

OK, so maybe it wasn’t the tarmac, maybe that’s just Trojan lore, maybe the abrupt firing took place in a small room next to the runway.

No one was wondering where its mojo was on that end Tuesday as USC forced a stunning 29 turnovers, its most since last November, when the Trojans tallied a record 42 against Cal State Northridge.

“What if those copper ingots and that bronze knife were from…a sea trader of the time of Odysseus and the Trojan wars?”

Leaders at USC were also unhappy with the structure of the payouts, which places the Trojans in a lower tier than Michigan or Ohio State, according to a person familiar with their thinking.