Tulane faces USC in the Cotton Bowl Bowl on Monday, Jan. 2. The game will be live streamed on fuboTV (free trial).

The Trojans came up just short of making the four-team College Football Playoff in their first season on the West Coast, but Caleb Williams won the Heisman Trophy and they have a chance to reach 12 wins for the first time since 2008. They play American Athletic Conference champion Tulane on Monday at the Cotton Bowl in a matchup of 11-2 teams that both made record improvements.

USC, which was 4-8 last season before they arrived, has already matched the program’s biggest season-to-season improvement. The Trojans’ first AP national championship was an 11-0 run in 1962 that followed 4-5-1 the previous year.

That is still not as impressive as Tulane’s turnaround. The Green Wave have already matched the FBS record after going 2-10 last year, and can make it an unprecedented 10-win improvement in their most significant bowl since the Sugar Bowl on New Year’s Day 1940.

Tulane, in a New Year’s Six game as the highest-ranked Group of Five team, won 17-10 at Big 12 champion Kansas State in mid-September in its only game so far this season against a Power Five team.

When is the Cotton Bowl?

The Cotton Bowl with Tulane and USC is noon (1 p.m. ET) on Monday, Jan. 2.

Will it be live streamed?

FuboTV

The game will be live streamed on fuboTV, which offers a free trial. The most basic of plans is the “fubo standard” package, which comprises 121-plus channels for $69.99 per month. Like all cord-cutting alternatives, there are plenty of options, especially for sports. It comes with more than 1,000 hours of cloud-based DVR, and up to 10 screens at once.

What TV channel will broadcast?

The ReliaQuest Bowl with Mississippi State and Illinois will be broadcast on ESPN2.

Preview

PRATT’S PASSING: Pratt has thrown for 2,755 yards with 25 touchdowns and only five interceptions. He has been picked off only twice in the past eight games. Pratt had 442 total yards and five touchdowns in the AAC championship game against UCF.

Over the Trojans’ last seven games, only one-win Colorado failed to throw for at least 300 yards with multiple touchdowns against them. But they are third nationally with 19 interceptions this season.

CHANGED LINE: USC’s offensive line will look significantly different in the Cotton Bowl. All-America guard Andrew Vorhees, after dealing with a lingering injury, won’t play after also missing the Pac-12 championship game, and is beginning his prep for the NFL draft after appearing in 55 games for USC. Third-team All-American center Brett Neilon hasn’t recovered from a knee injury in that title game.

“Two big losses,” Riley said. “I think we’ve benefited from having time, being able to bank a lot of practices with these groups as we’ve had to shuffle some guys around to make it work.”

CENTURY STREAK: Green Wave running back Tyjae Spears has rushed for at least 100 yards in seven consecutive games, the longest active FBS streak. The rising NFL prospect, who said he never considered opting out of his final game, had 199 yards rushing in the AAC championship game that included an impressive 60-yard TD run with a leap over one of his tripped-up teammates.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.