WATCH: Holiday Bowl postgame video interviews with USC coaches and players

SAN DIEGO -- This was not the 2019 finale the USC football team intended, and certainly not the reinforcing response coach Clay Helton wanted to deliver after the heavily-criticized decision by athletic director Mike Bohn to retain him heading into 2020.

USC fell behind two touchdowns in the first half, had a mounting rally upended by a scary injury to QB Kedon Slovis' throwing arm and then faded away down the stretch as Iowa finished off a 49-24 win in the Holiday Bowl.

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See what Helton said about the deflating loss and whether he'll consider staff changes. Plus, interviews with special teams coordinator John Baxter (discussing Iowa's 98-yard kickoff return touchdown) and players.

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