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Sunday Buzz: Will USC Make Top 25 Tomorrow?

The Associated Press Top 25 poll will be released tomorrow. Will USC make it? The Trojans didn’t make the coaches’ poll.

But I suspect USC might make the AP poll. For one thing, I think the sports writers tend to reward traditional marquee programs a little more than the coaches’ poll. And they aren’t always as familiar with all the teams so it’s easier to just put a usual suspect.

Brett McMurphy has already revealed he voted USC No. 22 in his poll.

Now the crazy part: It’s Year 4 of Lincoln Riley. Can you imagine telling USC fans four years that Riley might not have the Trojans in the AP preseason poll in 2025? Of course, there are still plenty of fanboys who will rationalize it but it’s an amazing factoid.

36 thoughts on “Sunday Buzz: Will USC Make Top 25 Tomorrow?”

  1. About 38 percent of USC undergraduate students are from CA, about 27 percent are international and about 35 percent are from another state. It is totally a different campus, many of whom never will care about football.

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    1. Ton-o-Hel is at a disadvantage in that he takes his team 2500 miles to play at Fresno St, and then the following week he is at SC for another 2500 mile trek

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      1. Georgia Southern lost to Ole Miss last year 52-13.

        607 yards of total offense versus 195 yards for Clay and the War Eagles. Or whatever their mascot is.

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  6. Can anyone even imagine how many hits InsideUSC would get on Saturday night if Riley were to lose to Helton?

    [Watch Helton’s blitzing linebackers go for Jayden’s knees…. this is gonna be war for Gomer]…..

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      1. I hope you’re referring to Scott’s column and not the loss itself, So Cal [cuz…if we lose that game ….we lose all credibility and, with it, our 2026 class]…..

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  7. KAM: “Hold on a moment” with this talk of Helton not having a chance against SC. Ton-o-Hel has a returning quarterback who is accurate and runs a little too.

    DON: Imagine Helton’s thinking: ‘This is it, this is what I was born for- My beating SC and doing it with Southern style football, and in their own back yard to boot’

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  8. KAM: -And you call me a dreamer, Helton beating SC, I won’t hear the last of it

    DON: You will when it happens

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  9. KAM: You have been frustrated by Putin in the past for his saying no, “Nyet!” to some of your ideas for peace in Ukraine.

    DON: -And now they want to bring into the fray the Ukrainian whacko. Great, now I got 2 ‘Russians’ to deal with

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  10. Ton-o-Hel’s pregame pep talk to his players– ‘This is our Super Bowl fellas. You win today and this game will go down in history. We got the players to do it. Let’s go out there and prove it

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  11. KAM: That’s enough of this idle chatter. You got a good ‘line’ to cheer up the returning Monday workers this morning?

    DON: Writer Thomas Carlyle said it– “He that can work is a born king of something.” I mean, whatever we work at, however modest the work, we are Born Kings and Queens of it

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    1. KAM: Mainstream Democrat Podcaster and Bravo Reality Star Slams ‘Audacity’ of White Trump Voters Who Eat in Mexican, Indian or Chinese Restaurants!Bravo Reality Star Interior Decorator and a leading left-wing podcaster has slammed the “audacity” of white Trump voters who dare to enjoy international cuisine.

      Intolerant Mainstream Moderate Democrat Jennifer Welch, who co-hosts the I’ve Had It podcast, went on an unhinged rant in which she said white people should be “banned” from enjoying “the benefits of multiculturalism.” Funny, I always thought enjoying the best of other cultures like eating Bratwurst or Swedish meatballs  was all about America being the melting pot?

      “I’ve had it with white people that triple Trumped… that have the nerve and the audacity to walk into a Mexican restaurant, a Chinese restaurant, an Indian restaurant…I don’t think you should be able to enjoy anything but Cracker Barrel!”https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1954597594665259221lol

      DON: Why are you Democrats so hateful, man-spirited and intolerant?

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  12. DON: Would Wiley rather play Notre Dame in South Bend where he has no chance, or play Ton-o-Hel’s team with nothing to gain and everything to lose?

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    1. KAM: Have you noticed how intolerant ignorant Mainstream Moderate Democrats believe lies and teach the lies to our children in public schools? A survey shows that most Hispanic, Black, and Asian women think “white people invented s l a v e r y.” Most Liberal Millennials think the same.https://x.com/TheRabbitHole84/status/1954729516175347955?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1954729516175347955%7Ctwgr%5Eb5ef0329c284486fda58feb301855b95ba74bbb7%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F737526%2Flol

      DON: Sad how stupid, hateful and mean they are. And Millennials are the Dumbest Most Lib Generation of all. No wonder they are so intolerant. “S l a v e r y was not only universal, it was uncontroversial for most of human history. The moral outrage against it was a late development, confined almost entirely to [white] Western societies, starting with the Quakers and other religious groups in the 18th century.”- Thomas Sowell

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  13. KAM: Have you noticed how your MAGAs and my people go at each other every single day

    DON: I don’t know where they get that from

    KAM: Imagine being a Democrat and a stand-up comedian, trying to get laughs from a Republican audience. That’d be a form of suicide

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    1. KAM: Actually you crazed libtards go at us every single day. Like at the UCLA graduation:

      UCLA student Jamie Han curses at ICE and at the Trump administration during her disgraceful graduation speech. Han is a Chinese-American actress with a degree in hating America. She wants our country ruined by illegals.https://x.com/search?q=Jamie%20Han%20UCLA&src=typeahead_clicklol

      DON: She clearly hates our country. Go back to Red China, loser.

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  14. My idea of a successful W/L record for 2025

    beat Purdue on roadbeat Illinois on roadbeat Michigan at homebeat UCLA at homeI don’t care about the rest of the schedule

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  15. KAM: The SC Trojans still have that ‘something’ when entering opposing teams’ stadiums. Michigan, Minnesota and Maryland were in a frenzy when playing SC last year

    DON: But that is largely built on past glory. If SC wants to maintain its image as a footballl power, they’d better start winning again

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