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Morning Buzz: USC Picked 9th In Preseason Big Ten Poll

USC has been picked to finish ninth in the Big Ten preseason media poll conducted by the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

Among the schools picked to finish ahead of the Trojans are Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska.

Full poll results:

RankTeam (1st place)PointsAverage Rank
No. 1Penn State (11)4351.60
No. 2Ohio State (10)4311.76
No. 3Oregon (2)4052.80
No. 4Illinois3534.88
No. 5Michigan (1)3465.16
No. 6Indiana305680
No. 7Iowa2877.52
No. 8Nebraska2777.92
No. 9USC2698.24
No. 10Washington21610.36
No. 11Minnesota19211.32
No. 12Wisconsin15912.60
No. 13Michigan State13513.60
No. 13Rutgers13513.60
No. 15UCLA13413.64
No. 16Maryland9115.36
No. 17Northwestern6516.40
No. 18Purdue3917.44
  • The poll had 24 media members from across the conference vote. They clearly are not buying the spin that Lincoln Riley has turned things around.

Voters were asked which Big Ten coach should be on the hot seat heading into 2025. Wisconsin’s Luke Fickell got 11 votes while Maryland’s Mike Locksley and Riley got six votes.

56 thoughts on “Morning Buzz: USC Picked 9th In Preseason Big Ten Poll”

    1. -Not sure your meaning Ed.G, but I caught the line of “was jussed pikked on” as is true in some cases where both sides are in a negative symbiotic ‘relationship’ where they mutually pick on each other to both sides detriment

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  2. We are ranked No. 9 but there are only three teams with an arguably more talented roster – Penn State, Ohio State, and Oregon, and we only play one of those teams. Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska huh. I don’t see it.

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      1. Here’s a concept, Cowardly Sparrow Gabby ,why don’t you stop hijacking every other poster’s username for the last 20 years……you look like a dumb—-ass

        ……and apologize for being a d i c k

        Senile Joe Biden is your man-crush

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      2. What a f u c king idiot…… you’re calling someone out for doing the same f u c king s h i t you’re guilty of, hijacking a user name

        You are one f u c king dumb/ass

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      3. You are in violation of your restraining order Cowardly Gabby that prohibits you from being within 100 yards of parks, schools, play grounds or any other location where children may be expected to congregate. You are going to have to explain to a Judge how you were able to see a 5 year old laughing from over 100 yards.

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      4. What a f u c king idiot…… you don’t get it- you hate it when someone else is doing the same f u c king s h i t to you that you have been doing to others.

        you’re guilty of hijacking all the users names here for the last 2 decades. You need to stop it so I won’t have to continually rub your nose in it like a incontinent dog.

        You are one f u c king dumb/ass

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      5. C’mon Cowardly Gabby. Real Gabby is just asking you to ” apologize for being a d i c k.” Is that too much to ask. I’m sure you have done it many times before.

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      1. KAM: You are a UCLA Fan, vile antisemitic and racist Board Pest Board Cancer Cowardly Gabby aka Sparrow Calypso aka TebowObama aka Charlie Bucket the UCLA Fan aka The Guy who posts as Buddhakarma & So Cal’s Wife & Michael Guarino & Trojan RJJ & LawyerJohn & Pudly & Plow Horse and TrojanFan 1-3 & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young and KATHY and Foreskin Thoughts and SCOTTLOVESTHEROOOOOTTÞ and Manureman and eric  and Smacky:

        Gabby

        June 27, 2025 at 3:58 pm

        what the f u c k did I post above….. no one wants to be a condom.

        got to go, the short bus is arriving any minute…..

        trump has a sweet mushroom

        DONB: Why would a UCLA Fan be talking to the USC football coach? Cowardly Sparrow Gabby caught in another lie!

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      2. Gabby

        June 27, 2025 at 3:58 pm

        what the f u c k did I post above….. no one wants to be a condom.

        got to go, the short bus is arriving any minute…..

        trump has a sweet mushroom

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      3. KAM: WHOA! Hunter Said Senile Joe Biden Was Drugged Up on Ambien During Disastrous 2024 Debate Against Trump!

        DON: That must be Cowardly Sparrow Gabby’s excuse for her 2 decades of inane racist obscene spams here like this one:

        Gabby

        March 18, 2025 at 4:54 pm

        size matters when you have to supplement your old lady with a massive black d i l d o.

        “Once you go black you never go back”

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      4. fake gabbby,

        Why haven’t you been deported yet? Your nothin’ but a flim flam pinata boy and the people down south could really use another pinata like you.

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    2. We have a great defensive coaching staff and that should keep us in a lot of games. Riley needs to up his game. Did a terrible job at game management last year. On a more positive note, nobody in the BIG has a proven quarterback other than Penn State and Franklin tends to lose big games. We should be able to compete this year, 10-2.

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      2. KAM: Senate Judiciary Committee Drops Bombshell on FBI’s Clinton Cover-Up — Declassifies and Releases Long-Hidden “Clinton Annex” to the Public!

        DON: The U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary has released a scathing statement exposing the FBI’s utter failure—if not outright refusal—to properly investigate Hillary Clinton’s illegal use of a private email server during her time as Secretary of State.

        Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) revealed that the newly declassified “Clinton annex”—an appendix to the DOJ Inspector General’s 2018 report—shows that James Comey’s FBI deliberately ignored key evidence, stonewalled Congress, and prioritized politics over national security.

        Grassley confirmed that the document, declassified at his request by Trump-appointed Attorney General Pam Bondi and FBI Director Kash Patel, reveals how FBI brass—including Comey, McCabe, and disgraced agent Peter Strzok—buried damning evidence, including thumb drives with highly classified information that could’ve blown the lid off the Clinton-Obama cover-up.

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  4. ‘We’re No.-9′ we’re No.-9’ just doesn’t have much of a ring to it

    But probably realistic– Welcome to the old ‘Big-10’ where the going gets tougher from that ‘throw-and-catch’ West Coast ‘football’

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    1. KAM: Cowardly Gabby the UCLA Fan is happy!

      DON: Yes she is Charlie Bucket…Remember when Charlie Bucket told #BruinPowerRising ?

      Charlie Bucket on May 18, 2016 at 7:04 pm said:
      WOW!!! Rosen makes the list!!!!

      what an eye-opening crotch kick to the trOXans rushing to review the list!!!! HAWR-HAWR!!!! kid’s got IT, everyone loves him!! a magazine recently posted pics of him and some swimsuit model in his dorm room HOT TUB!!!! kid’s brash and BOLD, yet humble and lovable!!! women love him, kids love him, Old people love him!!!

      oh, and where’s Maxie??? (thank goodness they didn’t put Maxie’s mug shot up!!! HOO-HOO! HAWR-HAAAAAWR!!!!

      #FrankenBerryLookAlike

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    2. Sybil —

      I challenge you to a duel…. not in Barstow —but on the floor of the coliseum —not the coliseum in Los Angeles…. the one in ancient Rome [I’m working out the time machine details]… Joachim Phoenix, as Emperor Maximus, will oversee the match….

      #BringYourWiltedBronzeSword

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  6. Wiley never claimed to have “turned around’ SC football fortunes although this past year saw a Trojan surge which marks the ‘Beginning of improving the team

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    1. KAM: 7-6 is “Trojan Surge”?

      DON: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby needs to step away from the crack pipe:

      “Lincoln Riley On USC Rebuild: ‘It Can Happen Quickly’

      Former Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley believes he can turn things around in Southern California. Riley understands the work cut out for him, but feels confident he can turn things around ‘quickly’ in Southern California.

      “In this day and age, I think it can happen quickly,” Riely said when asked about the rebuild process at USC.

      “I think there’s a lot of good things going on in this program right now that we can absolutely build off. I think that this day and age with the way college football works, you can turnover rosters in so many different ways and we’ll be very, very deliberate, creative and intentional about that. 

      The combination of the staff we’re going to bring in, to the players we’re going to bring in, the leadership that we have, the support we have. Again, getting our former players so involved with this program is incredibly important to me. I just look at it like, ‘how can we not do it? How’s it not going to work?’ No time is soon enough. No time is soon enough. But we are going to fight like crazy and take advantage of every moment.” -Claudette Montana Pattison 11/30/21

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  7. Bohn offered Luke Fickell and was turned down. I suppose we dodged one. Grinch is now a safeties coach at Wisconsin. It seems like the coaching world recycles a lot of garbage. Graham Harrell has been the OC at three different teams since USC fired him.

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      1. Yes… that’s right: live in Sybil’s “present” [sick fantasy world], not in his/her past [sick, fantasy world]…..

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      2. KAM: Newly Declassified DOJ Watchdog Report on Hillary Clinton’s Private Server Scandal Reveals Barack Obama’s Email Was Hacked Thanks To Hitlery!

        DON: Obama’s emails were hacked.

        “Examples of US victim information that the analysts observed during this review included former President Barack Obama’s emails, possible evidence of an [redacted] intrusion into the [redacted] advance intelligence about a planned FBI arrest of a Russian citizen, network infrastructure diagrams for US government classified networks, and other potentially classified US government information,” https://x.com/LeeSmithDC/status/1947347902390501877?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1947347902390501877%7Ctwgr%5E5115966649def574882b4e3034f5f6b268c0f524%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F07%2Fnewly-declassified-doj-watchdog-report-hillary-clintons-private%2Fthe report said.

        Barack Obama’s emails were hacked because Hillary Clinton sent him an email from her private server.

        Cowardly Sparrow Gabby supports these incompetents!

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  9. According to a source, one of the blog’s finest, So Cal, has been identified as the person who plowed into a crowd outside a LA nightclub. As he exited his mangled car he was heard repeatedly shouting “f u c k Biden”

    that’s the blog dunce I know!

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  10. According to a source, fake Gabby, aka Scott Wolf, has been identified as the person who rammed his Pinto runabout into a San Jose post office. As he exited his mangled car he was heard repeatedly shouting “f u c k the libs”

    I had a feeling he was about to go “postal”

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    1. KAM:Hunter Biden may be a deranged Trump-hating drug addict who sold out his country, but he still makes more sense and understands what ails the Democrat Party than so many of its members.:

      “F&^% him and everybody around him… George Clooney is not a f%$#ing an actor. He’s a brand.”

      “James Carville hasn’t won a race in 40 f^%$ing years.”

      “David Axelrod had one success in his political life and that was Barack Obama and that was because of Barack Obama”

      “The Pod Save America guys were junior f*&^ing speech writers on Barack Obama’s Senate staff who have been dining out on the relationship with him making millions.”

      “Anita Dunn has made $40-$50 million off the Democratic Party.”

      “What influence does Jake Tapper have over anything? He has the smallest audience on cable news.”

      DON: Is Cowardly Sparrow Gabby really Hunter Biden?

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  12. Of course in sports being ‘good on paper’ but not the field occurs sometimes, so the SC schedule may not be so daunting, and hence the team of Maiava&Wiley may come to surprise

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  13. KAM: Why do you want Washington’s pro football team to change its name from the Commanders back to the Redskins

    DON: It’s about tradition and the fact ‘Redskins’ sounds more forceful than ‘Commanders. Got to look for any psychological advantage we can find

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  14. –It appears a 10-2 ‘Big-10’ record is required to get in to the Playoffs, and SC is at best a long-shot to achieve that kind of stellar record

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  15. Trump told Epstein……

    I HAVE NEVER NOT LIKED ANY OF THE 14-YEAR-OLDS YOU HAVE SENT ME. I HAVE GREAT RESPECT FOR YOUR TASTE IN YOUNG BEAVER

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      1. That description —which didn’t exactly sound too apt to begin with —-is becoming the best joke on this blog….

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      2. Well, second to the Cowardly Keyboard Warrior that is! SHE is the biggest joke on this board.

        Always has been. Always will be.

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    1. Not really. Eccentric means quirky, or strange, or odd in relation to the prevailing culture. Michael Jackson was eccentric in how he spoke, how he dressed, his mannerisms, his milk baths, his affection for animals, his germ phobia, his childlike behavior, his Neverland ranch, ect. He would never be thought of as an extremist because of these eccentric qualities. “Beyond eccentric” is a meaningless term. It has nothing to do with what people generally view as political extremism. Really Sparrow, sometimes when your wrong, you should just admit it rather than doubling down.

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  17. Gabby2 repeats and then repeats the repeats, so anyone can

    There are some cases where both sides are in a negative symbiotic ‘relationship’ where they mutually pick on each other to both sides detriment

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