By Daniel Dullum
Sports Radio Service
Saturday, September 19, 2015

A big night from quarterback Kevin Hogan and running back Remound Wright sparked Stanford to a 41-31 Pac-12 football win over No. 6 Southern California Saturday at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Hogan completed 18 of 23 passes for 279 yards and touchdown passes to Austin Hooper and Devon Cajuste. It was the first win for Hogan over the Trojans in his Cardinal career.

Wright rushed for 41 yards, but scored three times on 1-yard runs. Christian McCaffrey led the Cardinal ballcarriers with 115 yards on 26 attempts.

Stanford (1-1 overall, 1-0 Pac-12 North), won its second straight game after dropping its season opener at Northwestern. USC (2-1, 0-1 Pac-12 South) allowed the Cardinal to rack up 474 total yards while losing to Stanford for the fourth time in their last five games at the Coliseum.

Hooper caught four passes for 79 yards, McCaffrey and Dalton Schultz each caught three passes, and Cajuste and Trenton Irwin had two receptions each for Stanford.

Trojans quarterback Cody Kessler tossed two touchdown passes to Steven Mitchell Jr. and JuJu Smith-Schuster snared another. Kessler completed 25 of 32 passes for 272 yards.

USC jumped to a 14-7 first-quarter lead, but the Cardinal rebounded and took a 24-21 lead into the locker room with a pair of touchdowns in the last 3:53 of the first half.

Stanford travels to Corvallis, Oregon, next week to face Oregon State in a Pac-12 North Division Friday night contest.