New guys in the starting lineup on the NAV BY PLAYER GRIDIRON: Taylor Mays, Fili Moala and Rey Maualuga.

Who needs one or two star tailbacks when you can have five or six flashy new ones? Why worry when your most gifted free safety goes down? You simply replace him with a freshman who was the most highly regarded prospect in the nation at that position. Your senior middle linebacker pulls a hamstring? No problem, you merely insert a kid who is bigger, stronger and more naturally skilled.

To quote TrojanWire reader BIG GUNS, “USC is 1 big ass shark when 1 or two or even 3 teeth come up missing they’re replaced with new ones just as sharp as the one they lost!”

USC depth chart to die for [OC Register]