Dan Weber, Riverside P-E

Photo: Terry Pierson, Riverside Press-Enterprise

It wasn’t supposed to be like this. Sure USC’s defensive front four were good, but it was just the four of them. Several preseason publications had the quartet — All-Americans Sedrick Ellis at nose tackle and Lawrence Jackson at end, along with tackle Fili Moala and first-time starter Kyle Moore at the other end — as the No. 1 unit in the nation, barring injuries. And then two things happened… continue