USC vs. Utah: Live updates from the Coliseum

USC 10, Utah 0 (1:58 left first quarter)

Norm Chow's return to the Coliseum isn't going to well. 

After USC's Andre Heidari kicked a 47-yard field goal that barely had enough air underneath it to go through the uprights, giving USC the game's first points, Utah fumbled it on its next possession.

The fumble occurred on an errant pitch to Utah running back John White and Trojans defensive back T.J. McDonald recovered at Utah's 20-yard line. 

Four plays later, USC was in the end zone when running back Marc Tyler, who returned from a one-game suspension, scored from six yards.

Utah has 0 yards of offense, which shouldn't make Chow, the team's offensive coordinator, too happy.

USC, meanwhile, has 123 yards of offense.

Pregame

On 9/10/11, we debut the Pac-12.

You'd think the league officials worked that out just to be cute.  

Or that they hitched USC and Utah together for the newly expanded conference's inaugural football game, considering the bounty of story lines such a matchup offers. 

To wit: 

-Call this the Norm Chow Bowl, or part one of his three-stop reunion tour.

The Utes' offensive coordinator led the offense at USC from 2001-04, and those were some decent seasons, to say the least. (He tutored Heisman Trophy-winning quarterbacks Carson Palmer and Matt Leinart and USC won national two titles, though the second was stripped.)

He groomed a 24-year-old Trojans assistant named Lane Kiffin, and then Kiffin ultimately succeeded him. Kiffin wanted him back in 2010 when he became the head coach at USC, but Chow, then at UCLA, said no thanks.

Of course, Chow runs into former colleagues often -- "faceless names," he calls them -- and he'll do it next week, too, when the Utes host Brigham Young, where Chow coached for decades. 

And on Oct. 1, for Utah's homecoming, Chow will go against a quarterback he coached at BYU, Steve Sarkisian, who was a former USC coaching colleague and now runs the Washington Huskies. 

For the record, this is the fourth time Chow has faced USC since he left seven years ago. His UCLA teams have lost in the previous three games: 28-7, 28-7, 28-14. 

-Old hat vs. the new guy

USC is cardinal and gold, but beneath that pumps some of the bluest blood in college football, rich with Heisman Trophy winners, national championships, All-Americans, et al.