USC Trojans vs Arizona State Sun Devils Match Player Stats On Oct 28, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Oct 29, 2017

TEMPE, Ariz. -- USC halfback Ronald Jones II rushed for 216 yards and two touchdowns and quarterback Sam Darnold passed for 266 yards and three scores in the No. 21 Trojans' 48-17 Pac-12 victory over the Arizona State Sun Devils at Sun Devil Stadium on Saturday.

Jones scored on 67- and 64-yard runs, the second for a 38-17 lead with 10:10 remaining in the third quarter. His career-rushing high is 223 yards against California last season.

Wide receiver Tyler Vaughns had six receptions for 126 yards and two touchdowns for USC (7-2, 5-1 Pac-12), which had 607 yards total offense, 341 yards rushing.

The Trojans and Arizona (6-2, 4-1), the only two one-loss teams in the Pac-12 South, meet in Los Angeles next Saturday.

Arizona State quarterback Manny Wilkins completed 17 of 29 passes for 259 yards and a touchdown. He rushed for another score and was sacked six times.

Kyle Williams had seven receptions for 121 yards and a touchdown.

USC defensive back Ykili Ross returned an interception 37 yards for a touchdown with 1:03 remaining.

The Sun Devils (4-4, 3-2) trailed 31-3 before scoring on the final play of the first half and on their first drive of the second half.

ASU had 357 yards total offense, 79 rushing. The Sun Devils, third in the FBS with 31 penalty yards per game, committed 10 penalties for 99 yards.

USC showed no ill effects from its 49-14 loss to Notre Dame last week.

The Trojans had touchdown drives of 75, 75, 80 and 88 while rolling to a 31-10 halftime lead against an Arizona State defense that had given up only 17 points in its previous two games, both victories.

Darnold completed a 32-yard scoring pass to Deonta Burnett on USC's first drive before Brandon Ruiz's 39-yard field goal made it 7-3.

Darnold completed his first scoring pass to Vaughns, a 42-yarder for a 14-7 lead late in the first period.

Jones broke two tackles while on a 67-yard touchdown run around right end on the second play of the second quarter, and Darnold's 19-yard connection with Vaughns made it 28-3 with 6:02 left in the quarter.

Chase McGrath's 51-yard field goal put USC up 31-3.

Arizona State scored on a Hail Mary pass on the final play of the half, a 47-yard completion to diving wide receiver Kyle Williams. The pass originally was ruled to have been caught in the field of play before being reversed after an official review.

NOTES: USC quarterback Sam Darnold is 15-3 as a starter, 10-0 at home. Darnold threw for 352 yards and three touchdowns and ran for a touchdown in a 41-20 victory over Arizona State last season, his first career home start. ... Arizona State did not give up a touchdown until the fourth quarter of its last two games, a 13-7 victory over then-No. 5 Washington and a 30-10 victory at Utah.