Some help is needed for UCLA or USC to make Los Angeles a Pac-12 title town

LOS ANGELES — UCLA was surging toward a Pac-12 title, its fate belonging to nobody else, its destiny unfurling promisingly ahead.

Then came the losses, the doubts, the worries.

USC was surging toward a Pac-12 title, its fate belonging to nobody else, its destiny unfurling promisingly ahead.

Then came the losses, the doubts, the worries.

A torrent of torment, elation followed by heartache, has deposited the Bruins and the Trojans in the same spot on the final day of the regular season. The crosstown rivals will meet at