USC football preview: New coaches lead a defense in need of a surge

LOS ANGELES — They are the Four Horsemen, not of the apocalypse, but of a rebirth.

There is USC’s new defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn, the mastermind behind it all, the man who took UCLA’s defense from bottom-dweller to fearsome run-stoppers in the span of one season.

There is new defensive line coach Eric Henderson, a booming, confident presence that won a Super Bowl with the Los Angeles Rams and whose mantra of “Dawg Work” has been parroted within USC’s Twitter fingers for months.