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The USC football team had been down in recent years before Lincoln Riley took over last season, and a switch was immediately flipped. The Trojans found themselves 11-1 and ranked fourth in the country heading into the Pac-12 championship game against Utah football. Win, and USC is going to the College Football Playoff. That is […]

USC football star Caleb Williams is not only the reigning Heisman Trophy winner, but he’s arguably the top prospect for the 2024 NFL Draft heading into his junior year. While you’d imagine it’s a foregone conclusion that Williams will make the jump to the pro level next April, it’s not. With the college football season […]

The NCAA had put itself in a tough spot with the approval of the NIL legislation. They allow questions of retroactive punishments to players who have been stripped away of opportunities they earned from college sports. Reggie Bush and USC football have been at the center stage of all of this. Notably, the former NFL […]

The 2005 Heisman trophy debacle is one of the most controversial NCAA college football issues of all time. It had cost then-USC football star Reggie Bush a lot in terms of his reputation and the amount of cash that he could have racked in. He has since got a decent career in the NFL. And, […]

Four-star quarterback Julian Lewis committed to the USC Trojans football program, according to a Tuesday tweet from 247Sports Director of Recruiting Steve Wiltfong. Lewis will join USC’s 2026 recruiting class. Lewis is the No. 1-ranked prospect on 247Sports’s 2026 football recruit rankings. He held offers from Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Cincinnati, Florida State, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Nebraska, Notre […]

Before the start of any college football season, there is a lot of off-season debate. Which players are the best, which coaches are the best, which teams are the best, etc. There are usually many different opinions on all of those things, but there seems to be one thing almost everybody agrees on heading into […]

The college football season is just a few days away and with that, the chase for the College Football Playoff and the national championship will soon be on. There is obviously a lot of debate going into every season in regards to which teams are the best and who has a chance win it all […]

The 2023 college football season is rapidly approaching; Week 0 kicks off Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET with Notre Dame vs. Navy, in Dublin, Ireland. The AP released its preseason top-25 poll last week, and now the AP preseason All-American teams are here. USC, Michigan and Ohio State football all bring serious talent to the […]

USC’s three-month search for a new athletic director has come to an end. The Trojans are hiring Washington athletic director Jennifer Cohen to be their AD, according to Ryan Kartje. Cohen is the first woman to become USC’s athletic director and the 10th person to oversee Trojan athletics in a full-time capacity. Cohen will be […]

Times are good for USC football. The team is ranked 6th in the AP Top 25 poll to start the season. They have a Heisman Trophy winner in quarterback Caleb Williams. But the biggest star at practice last week was none other than actor Will Ferrell. Head coach Lincoln Riley had Ferrell speak to the […]

The second half of August is now upon us, which means the college football season isn’t far behind. The preseason rankings are all out, and so-called “Week 0” games are just over a week away. After months of conference realignment talks dominating headlines, we’re finally at a point where we can start talking about the […]

USC football has one of the most intriguing quarterback rooms in all of college football for the 2023 season. The starter will obviously be reigning Heisman trophy winner Caleb Williams, but the Trojans have the top player in the 2023 class coming in at QB, Malachi Nelson. Nelson obviously won’t get a ton of playing […]

Lincoln Riley’s first season as USC football’s head coach marked a serious turnaround for the program. In one year with Riley calling the shots and his transfer talent executing the game plan, the Trojans went from 4-8 to 11-3, falling just short of the program’s first College Football Playoff appearance. Caleb Williams won the Heisman […]

USC football is really excited about the possibility of getting plays from redshirt freshman Zion Branch at the safety position this year. The Trojans defensive coordinator Alex Grinch is gushing over how much progress Zion Branch has made ever since being cleared to return from the knee injury that kept him out last season, reports […]

Texas football star Quinn Ewers has landed on the 2023 Manning Award watch list. The preseason watch list includes the top quarterbacks in college football, highlighted by USC’s Caleb Williams and North Carolina QB Drake Maye. Quinn Ewers will try to become the first Texas football player to win the Manning Award in 15 years. […]

With the USC football season set to kick off in less than two weeks against San Jose State, Lincoln Riley’s depth chart is starting to take its final shape. Through two weeks of Trojans fall camp, the USC offensive line looks like this: Jonah Monheim (LT), Emmanuel Pregnon (LG), Justin Dedich (C), Jarrett Kingston (RG), […]

USC football quarterback Caleb Williams, rush end Jamil Muhammad and running back MarShawn Lloyd praised freshman linebacker Tackett Curtis for his impact in fall camp. Via The Athletic’s Antonio Morales: “If I had to call him something, he’s a destroyer,” Williams said. “He’ll run down people whether they’re ahead of him by 20 yards, whether […]

Johnny Manziel has been a big topic of discussion around the sports world as his Netflix documentary, “Untold: Johnny Football”, was released earlier this week. The documentary went in depth about what happened behind the scenes during Manziel’s time with Texas A&M football, the Cleveland Browns and his post-football career. After watching the documentary, one […]

USC football gets an early start this season as the Trojans host San Jose State football in what many college football fans refer to as ‘week zero’. August 26th is the start date for USC, just over a little two weeks away. The hype around the program is high this season, and that is becoming […]

It’s no secret that the quarterback position is the key to success in college football. It’s why almost every year the Heisman trophy winner comes from that position. Not only that, but typically, those Heisman winners are playing in the College Football Playoff. In fact, four out of the last five quarterbacks to win the […]

USC football running back MarShawn Lloyd is a newcomer for the team. He played his first two collegiate seasons at South Carolina, where he stood out as its leading rusher. Lloyd entered the transfer portal in December and committed to the Trojans, who lost their top back from last season, Travis Dye. Even though he […]

Recruitment season never stops for college football. A lot of diamonds in the rough can be found in the nation despite the number of stars credited with their name. Offers can be quite insane for these individuals when they receive them. This is exactly what Jake Flores felt after he got the call-up from USC […]

The college football season begins in just over two weeks. The long off-season is almost past us and fans can’t wait to see their favorite teams in action. Most teams don’t get going until Labor Day weekend, but there are some games the week before. One of the countries best teams, USC football, will get […]

Former USC football commit Dakoda Fields has de-committed from USC and is headed to Oregon, per 247Sports. Fields is a 4-star cornerback recruit in the class of 2024 from Southern California. USC cornerbacks coach Donte Williams and Lincoln Riley lose the No. 14 overall prospect in the state and the No. 9 cornerback in the […]

On Monday morning, the Oregon Ducks received terrific news when they learned that four-star cornerback Dakoda Fields would be committing to their football program after he originally committed to the USC Trojans’ football program in early June (per Max Torres of the Belleville News-Democrat). Fields is the first Oregon recruit since the school announced they […]

USC football’s Lincoln Riley isn’t concerned about the recruiting implications of Oregon and Washington joining the Big Ten. He also reiterated that USC’s own move to the Big Ten was not dependent on the actions of any other school. “We’re going to recruit locally and nationally as hard as we can,” Riley said, according to […]

The Pac-12 is currently in shambles as programs are deciding to leave the conference left and right. It all started when UCLA and USC opted to leave for the Big Ten starting in the 2024 scholastic year, and this was the first domino that has set off a wild chain of events. The next team […]

USC football star Caleb Williams has been often compared to Kansas City Chiefs star Patrick Mahomes. However, the young signal-caller couldn’t care less about it. While he has no issue with the comparisons, he’s also not letting himself be limited by it. The Williams-Mahomes comparisons started once again at the Pac-12 Media Day after Trojans […]

USC football quarterback Caleb Williams outlined his lofty goals for the 2023 season in a podcast with Front Office Sports. “I want to reach 70 percent completion, I want to go win a national championship and hoist up that trophy,” Williams said. “I want to win a Pac-12 championship and hoist up that trophy. I […]

If there’s anybody qualified to answer a question on the top football players in program history, USC quarterback Caleb Williams — the reigning AP Player of the Year and Heisman Trophy winner — will be among them. However, even Williams may have some explaining to do after snubbing former USC running back Marcus Allen from […]

The USC football coach Lincoln Riley has faith in defensive coordinator Alex Grinch. After the Trojans’ defense faltered down the stretch of the 2022 season, Lincoln Riley believes the unit is in good hands for his second season with the USC football program. There’s little question that the Trojans will have one of the best […]

With the future of the Pac-12 in serious doubt following Colorado’s departure, the whole conference has been thrust into disarray. USC football, whose move to the Big Ten first ignited all the chaos, has no ties to the league beyond this year and is therefore unlikely to be preoccupied with all of that hoopla. Besides, […]

USC football defensive tackle Bear Alexander set high personal goals for himself at USC, according to a Friday tweet from LA Times USC beat writer Ryan Kartje. “Bear Alexander has a few modest personal goals for his first season at USC: ‘Double-digit sacks, sophomore All-American,’ he said,” wrote Kartje. Alexander, a former four-star recruit from […]

The Big Ten will expand to 16 teams in 2024 when USC and UCLA are added to the conference. Could even more teams be added to the conference in the near future? It seems to be an unlikely scenario after listening to Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti at Big Ten media days. In light of […]

Despite Lincoln Riley and USC Football moving to the Big Ten in 2024, the relatively new head coach is still looking forward to seeing Notre Dame on the other side of the field in the team’s final season in the Pac-12. “That’s one of the biggest rivalries in college football,” Riley said on Friday, according […]

USC football star Caleb Williams is “determined” to make the College Football Playoff this year, he told ESPN at Pac-12 Media Day. “I haven’t been in the College Football Playoff in my two years of playing,” Williams said. “It’s been tough. It bothers me because I play for championships. I don’t play for anything else. […]

With some of the great college football programs on the move to new conferences, some of the great college football rivalries are ending. Among those is the Bedlam Rivalry between Oklahoma and Oklahoma State, as the Sooners are moving to the SEC. USC football coach Lincoln Riley is saddened by the loss of rivalries like […]

Amidst much turmoil in the Pac-12, the conference is exploring a schedule change that would result in teams playing eight in-conference matchups rather than nine. Pac-12 commissioner George Kliavkoff announced at Pac-12 Media Day that the conference created a four-person committee to evaluate the pros and cons of switching to an eight-game league schedule starting […]

USC football coach Lincoln Riley showed Colorado football coach Deion Sanders some love during Pac-12 Media Day. On Friday, Lincoln Riley was asked about Sanders and the massive roster turnover that he’s made upon his arrival to Colorado. The USC football coach was nothing but complimentary toward Coach Prime. “I give (Sanders) credit,” Riley said, […]