Without Kiffin, you don't make it into the playoffs - but he needs to learn from this failure. It was clear to me and everyone in my house that we were running the exact same defensive scheme that we used against MSU, and the effect was the same. We were taking away Cooper and giving up our edge defense to do so. We still had Bosa to stop up the middle, but we had no answer for outside running plays. No idea why Kiffin didn't take advantage of that. Of course that doesn't place the loss at Kiffin's feet, but it just had me puzzled.
