USC collapses late in stunning OT loss to No. 4 Penn State

LOS ANGELES — For four nights that passed this past week, Lincoln Riley did not see his children.

When Saturday afternoon arrived, bringing with it a momentous inflection point in his three-year tenure at USC, Riley stood for a pregame interview broadcast to a slowly-filling Coliseum and issued a rallying cry. This, the head coach declared, is one of the games that you come to USC for. This, really, was another chance to plant his flag in USC’s lore, to diffuse the rising temperature around...