USC crumbles late in crushing 29-28 loss to Maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — At long last, after a season scorned by losses, after the “few plays away” that had defined USC’s season, they seemed set to close a football game on the steady leg of Georgia Southern transfer kicker Michael Lantz.

41-yard try. Two minutes left. USC up six. Snap. Kick. Ballgame, it should’ve been.

But Lantz’s boot never quite made it in the air.

Maryland’s Donnell Brown burst through and deflected the field-goal attempt, the loose football scooped up by the Terrapins’ Caleb Wheatland...