USC Trojans discuss when they knew Tight End Mark Bowman was ready to play

Lincoln, at what point did you know that Mark Bowman was ready to play tonight, and what kind of a difference did he make? He's been getting closer. This was the first week, though, that he was actually able to kind of fully practice. Just, you know, You know, by the end of the week, we thought, okay, there's a chance, but still gotta see how he plays. All right, he was on that game day, but warm-up went good tonight. I mean, he was on pretty low pitch count. You know, we knew we weren't gonna go play in many reps, but, yeah, obviously, you know, he's an explosive player, And him coming back, I mean... It's like when you get your best players back, it makes a big difference, you know, and he made a big difference tonight. Coach, on the second play of the game, Trent takes it to the house. I mean, how did that set the tempo just for the rest of your day? It was huge. It was huge. You grab momentum right away. You know, you know, crumbling nights, you know, I just think you get those opportunities to go take it right away. And we did. And I mean, he's an electric player. Guys blocked him up. Awesome. And now it's huge just to kind of set the tone, like you said, for the entire day.