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Top 2014 performances: Nelson Agholor

We continue our series looking at some of the top individual performances in the Pac-12 in 2014. If you feel a little nostalgic, you can check out the top performances from 2013.

Up next: 200 x 2

Who and against whom: After catching eight passes for 220 yards against Washington State the previous week, USC receiver Nelson Agholor backed it up with another performance to remember against Cal on a Thursday night.

The numbers: Agholor caught 16 passes for 216 yards and two scores, and USC held on for a 38-30 win.

A closer look: The final numbers were impressive, but it's what Agholor did in the first half -- more specifically the first quarter -- that made this one of the season's best performances. After the big game against WSU, Agholor couldn't have gotten off to much better of a start than he did at the Coliseum against Cal. He made eight catches for 120 yards in the opening quarter and had 13 for 177 yards before the break. If not for USC's 31-9 halftime advantage, who knows what he would have finished with, but he wasn't targeted much in the second half and finished one catch shy of Robert Woods' school record of 17 catches in a game. Not only had no USC receiver ever recorded more than one 200-yard receiving game in a season before Agholor recorded his second, but the school record for 200-yard receiving games is also just two. He was the only player in FBS to record back-to-back 200-yard receiving games this year and one of just seven since the 2004 season -- a group that includes Colorado's Paul Richardson in 2013.