The Battle for Los Angeles (and the Pac-12 South title) takes place today as No. 17 UCLA plays host to No. 18 USC at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Start time in today’s meeting between the two longtime rivals in scheduled for 3:05pm ET on FOX. Saturday College Football USC at UCLA Odds has the visiting Trojans listed as a -3 against the spread favorite; the game total is set at 66 points. The Bruins are drawing +145 moneyline odds to record their ninth win of the season.

USC versus UCLA is relevant again, even if no one expected it to be. Most pundits had the Trojans crowned Pac-12 South champs before the season even kicked off, but things have not gone according to plan for Lane Kiffin’s squad or Jim Mora Jr’s team for that matter.

USC, a team many believed had an opportunity to end the SEC’s BCS National Championship run, sits 7-3 overall and a game out of first in the division standings with a 5-3 conference mark. UCLA owns that top spot with a 5-2 league record and it has a shot at a 10 win season should it beat USC and Stanford over the next two weekends.

Despite the current situations these two find themselves in, most still view USC as the superior team. The Trojans have played the more difficult schedule thus far, having already faced Stanford and Oregon, but UCLA has been very impressive at times this season, though, beating Nebraska 36-30 and destroying Arizona 66-10 at the Rose Bowl.

USC has dominated this rivalry series from its inception, winning 46 of the 74 meetings, but it has been especially hard on the Bruins of late. The Trojans are 12-1 in their last 13 games against UCLA and they extended their current win streak over their city rival to five games when they thumped them 50-0 last November.

Free Pick: Take USC -3.

USC at UCLA College Football Odds:

USC Trojans -3 (-115), Over 66 (-110), -165 (Moneyline)

UCLA Bruins +3 (-105), Under 66 (-110), +145 (Moneyline)

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