(Brian Cushing, Mark Sanchez and Rey Maualuga)

It’s a regional cover. Other teams featured are Ohio State, Missouri, Georgia and Florida.

USC is ranked 3rd by SI, behind Ohio State and Georgia.

In the magazine, Phil Taylor writes that other teams are lucky to only face the scariest defender in college football once.

Maualuga’s teammates are in peril every day at practice, because Sting Rey, as he is sometimes called, doesn’t always differentiate between friend and foe when he’s administering pain.

Rey adds:

“I want to be the player the offense game-plans around, that the offense fears coming into the game.”

With that… we invite you to watch the clip after the jump.