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USC Misses Out On Top 25 Poll

USC missed another top 25 poll as the Trojans finished in 30th place in the Associated Press preseason poll.

Here is the complete poll, including where others like USC finished:

57 thoughts on “USC Misses Out On Top 25 Poll”

    1. KAM: What is a joke is Wiley Coyote ducking #21 Ole Miss. A win over Kiffin would have immediately put us in the Top 25 the next week.

      DON: Instead a meaningless scrimmage against Missouri State!

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    3. It’s not a talent poll. The writers see what Riley has done thus far and have little confidence he’ll do any better going forward. I don’t either.

      I wasn’t thrilled when we hired him. All he did was keep a good thing going at Choklahoma. I had wanted someone who turned a poor (or eve mediocre) team around.

      I was wrong about Pete. (Only issue I had with him was lack of college experience.) I had hoped Lincoln would prove me wrong, too. But he hasn’t.

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      1. I understand why you are down on LR. But I am way more optimistic than you So Cal. Its not just talent but talent on the line of scrimmage and new defensive coaches. The Lynn and Bowden hires are going to pay off.

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  4. — So now SC is reduced to trying to make the Top-25. Whatever happened to the McKay and Carrot days of ‘National Championship or bust?’

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  5. KAM: “This is Liberation Day in DC, and We’re Going to Take Our Capital Back” – President Trump Announces He is Invoking Section 740 of DC Home Act, Federalizing DC Police, and Sending in National Guard .The Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has faced accusations of manipulating crime classifications to improve crime statistics. In July 2025, a D.C. police commander, Michael Pulliam, was suspended and placed under investigation for allegedly altering crime data in his district, specifically in the 3rd District covering Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights. The D.C. police union, through Chairman Gregg Pemberton, claimed that MPD supervisors were directing officers to downgrade serious offenses—such as shootings, stabbings, or carjackings—to lesser categories like “felony assault” or “injured person to the hospital.” These categories are not tracked as part of the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting program or MPD’s daily crime stats, effectively reducing the reported numbers for serious crimes.

    DON: Hillary Clinton has the sads, she did some of her best Arkancide there.

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  6. KAM:

    Fox: Three years ago, New York drew up a map so gerrymandered that the state’s liberal Democrat Court of Appeals threw it out.

    NY Democrat Governor Hochul: “We followed the rules.”

    Fox: “The court said you didn’t follow the rules.”

    NY Democrat Governor Hochul: “We followed the rules.”

    DON: Democrats are the best comedians!

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    1. Gabby — Hochul is the leader New York voters wanted….

      #ThinkAboutThat….

      [Next they’ll elect a guy who has already told them he’s gonna operate outside the limits of the Commerce, Due Process and Contract Clauses of the U. S. Constitution…..]

      #IfThey’reHappy,I’mHappy

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  7. KAM: Sources close to incompetent racist black Democrat D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser say she is furious, as her lawyers are now telling her she has no grounds to challenge President Trump’s federalization of D.C. police due to the declared crime emergency, and that she must essentially surrender to the federal takeover.

    DON: Imagine wanting to fight someone trying to make your city better. She loves her power and pension lol

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      1. KAM: President Trump took aim at the Democrat Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, Democrat Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, Democrat Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, and Democrat California Governor Newsom, calling them out for incompetence and labeling their cities a “disaster.”

        “His [Pritzker’s] family threw him out of the business, and he ran for governor. And now I understand he wants to be president, but I noticed he lost a little weight, so maybe he has a chance,” Trump said in a hilarious troll of Pritzker.

        Regarding California politicians, Trump slammed them for the mismanagement of the LA County wildfires earlier this year and stated, “Gavin Newscum is incompetent. He’s got a good line of b$#@!t, but that’s about it.”

        DON: They like being big shots but have done nothing to make their cities and states great again.

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  8. KAM: Former DC Capitol Police Chief calls out San Fran Nan Pelosi for her lies:

    “Ma’am, it is long past time to be honest with the American people. On January 3, I requested National Guard assistance, but your Sergeant at Arms denied it. Under federal law (2 U.S.C. §1970), I was prohibited from calling them in without specific approval. https://x.com/ChiefSund/status/1954976030902395345?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1954976030902395345%7Ctwgr%5E28b53f6dffa21d9e79d672e1522ee432068c0b50%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thegatewaypundit.com%2F2025%2F08%2Fformer-us-capitol-police-chief-slams-nancy-pelosi%2FThat same day, Carol Corbin at the Pentagon offered National Guard support, but I was forced to decline because I lacked the legal authority.

    On January 6, while the Capitol was under attack and despite my repeated calls, your Sergeant at Arms again denied my urgent requests for over 70 agonizing minutes, “running it up the chain” for your approval.

    When I needed assistance, it was denied. Yet when it suited you, you ordered fencing topped with concertina wire and surrounded the Capitol with thousands of armed National Guard troops.”

    DON: She needs to go away forever. She has done enough damage to America already.

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  9. KAM: The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is facing major backlash after a viral video surfaced showing professors and faculty nodding along while a student speaker delivered an unhinged, profanity-laced attack on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and President Donald Trump’s administration during a commencement ceremony.

    The video, originally posted to Instagram in June by the speaker herself, Chinese-American student Jamie Han, has exploded across social media in recent days, sparking outrage from everyday Americans.https://x.com/search?q=Jamie%20Han%20UCLA&src=typeahead_clickIn the clip, Han spends the first portion of her speech delivering typical graduation pleasantries. But as she nears the end, the tone shifts dramatically. She launches into a Mainstream Moderate Democrat tirade.

    DON: According to her social media, Jamie Han is now working in Creative Film Marketing at Walt Disney Studios, contributing to projects under Disney, Marvel, and Lucasfilm, companies known for pushing kook pervert woke Democrat politics into mainstream entertainment. She will fit in perfectly there.

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      4. How can a team that gets into 3 separate preseason college football publication’s Top Twenty Power Ratings NOT be ranked in the Top 25?

        #Don’tAnswerThat

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  11. KAM: I don’t know how Trump managed to get Democrats to eagerly embrace the 20% part of the 80/20 issue of whether Washington DC crime exists and whether we should stop it, but voila!

    DON: It’s my super power!

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  12. Poll is a joke esp. having AZ St in it as well as: SMU, IL and TN.

    The truth will be up So. Bend on 18th October. As usual those clowns get their cherry picked rigged deck schedule and worse no CCF for them but somehow always have that ‘solo voce’ for any changes per playoffs et. al.. here’s to them and ‘….37 years and counting…’ they can join the other ntl’ con jobs – DAL Cowboys and NY Yankees (at least they’re only 14 yrs removed unlike DAL going on 29 yrs.).

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  13. KAM: The Democrats and Never Trumper Cultist RINOs have really lost the thread on, well, everything, and never know how ridiculous they sound. That sounds like someone in an abusive relationship telling the concerned neighbor that “Everything is fine:” 

    “This is a safe city, but overhearing and witnessing gang threats and then watching the camera footage of the thuggery is disturbing,” one D.C. resident told the  Fake News WaPo on Sunday. But — and I’m not making this up, so I’ll quote WaPo reporters Olivia George, John D. Harden, and Jenny Gathright precisely — the resident who told them the city was safe was “speaking on the condition of anonymity over concerns of personal safety.”

    DON: The mostly peaceful gang members tend toward violence when they hear you say they might not always be peaceful. 

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  14. KAM: Kill shot: seizing Harvard’s patents for inventions developed with federal funds, due to Harvard’s failure to disclose them, failure to commercialize them in America before other countries, and failure to convert them into practical use. From Commerce Secretary Lutnick. Not a good look for former Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker — the soon-to-be-former Senior Fellow (board chair) of Harvard Corporation.https://x.com/BenTelAviv/status/1954439621691007250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1954458542229831751%7Ctwgr%5Ea763ca24e091f44bcb1ac9e3e7fab7355b5241db%7Ctwcon%5Es2_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Finstapundit.com%2F737751%2Flol

    DON: Those heroic Pritzkers! OUTSTANDING! Now do this with every university that gets federal funding for research. Start with the Ivy League and move to USC!

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    1. KAM: There you go again, taking one example and then generalizing

      DON: Maybe. But I like to see the forest for the trees

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    2. KAM: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby loves the incompetent corrupt Pritzkers.

      DON: He is running for the Democrat nomination for president in 2028 so he can destroy America like he destroyed Illinois.

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  15. KAM: –And now I read this morning the SC beat writer saying in a worse case scenario he sees the Trojans at 6-6, with possible losses at Illinois and with Michigan St

    DON: But that ‘Wiley and his buyout’ are safe with a new SC president inheriting a $200-million debt

    KAM: Changing the subject, what do you expect with the Russia peace talks?

    DON: I’ll let them talk. But nobody is going to want to part with territory. I’m a deal maker but sometimes you just can’t make the deal

    KAM: And what about Israel-Gaza?

    DON: Another situation where I can’t make a deal

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    1. KAM: MI Voter Registration BOMBSHELL: Israeli Addresses Used to Register Multiple Permanent Absentee Voters from a Single Detroit Coffee Shop

      DON: The Democrats can only win by cheating.

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  16. KAM: Well, brokering a war isn’t the same as making a deal for a golf course. In a war you got intense hatred sometimes going back a 100 years or more

    DON: Even still, you got to keep at it, striving for peace

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    1. KAM: Weird how preachy Democrats like Cowardly Sparrow Gabby seem to have amnesia when it comes to the peace accords Trump has brokered between Azerbaijan and Armenia, Cambodia and Thailand, Israel and Iran, Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, India and Pakistan,  Egypt and Ethiopia, Serbia and Kosovo, and with the Abraham Accords.

      DON: She only reads leftist Fake News Media. She can’t think for herself.

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  17. KAM: The ratings for the top college football schools has the usual suspects– Alabama, Ohio St, Georgia, et cetera et cetera. You think SC will ever return to Top-10 prominence?

    DON: Not this year. But they’re coming

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    1. KAM: There’s nothing guaranteed. Look at all the coaches USC has gone through since Pete fled the approaching NCAA Posse 16 years ago…

      DON: True, Alabama was mediocre for almost 2 decades between Bear Bryant and Nick Saban.

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  18. KAM: In football so much is riding with how good your quarterback is, and Wiley is considered a quarterback guru

    DON: Well, the man lost his touch with Moss last year and Maiava is a project this year, but who knows?

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    1. KAM: For weeks, Democrats and their media allies have been flogging the Epstein-Trump narrative like it was the silver bullet that could finally dent President Trump’s popularity. But according to CNN’s own numbers guru, Harry Enten, the story has already imploded — and voters couldn’t care less.

      On CNN’s News Central Monday, anchor Kate Bolduan noted that “new numbers this morning showing something of a shift in how Americans are feeling about this.” 

      Enten didn’t hold back.

      “Yes, I would say that this is, from at least a political point of view, quickly turning into a dud of a story,” he said.

      Bolduan was surprised, calling it “wild” that such a hyped storyline had collapsed so quickly. 

      Enten pointed to the cold, hard data. 

      “Google searches for Epstein down 89% versus just three weeks ago. Falling through the floor. It is no longer the top term searched alongside Donald Trump’s name. That’s been trading off between tariffs and Vladimir Putin, with, obviously, the meeting coming up later this week.”

      “At this particular point,” Enten added, “the American people’s interest in this story, it’s quickly becoming something of a nothingburger.”

      In other words, the breathless coverage, the Capitol Hill grandstanding, and the left’s fever dreams of a political hit job have fizzled into nothing.

      Bolduan asked the obvious follow-up: Had it hurt Trump’s numbers at all? Enten’s answer was devastating for Democrats: “No, not really.”

      DON: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby hardest hit!

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      1. KAM: Funny, but it was your base of MAGAs that were clamoring hardest for the Epstein papers to be released

        DON: That was upsetting me, but I know the public’s attention span to so-called ‘big news’ is very limited, so dragging it out was the best plan

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      2. Funny, it was you libs who ignored it when Senile Joe was president but suddenly were posting non-stop about it the last month. And you kept posting about it here.

        DON: How sad you must continue to lie to us about your shameful partisan antics.

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  19. can Riley unlock the genie in Jayden? Once we have an inkling of that trajectory the tale of the season will start to appear through the fog

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  20. DON: Especially between two evenly matched teams, nobody has ever correctly predicted how a football game will play out. That’s part of the charm of sports, the unpredictability of it all. Did you know that football is like a chess game, every game is different?

    KAM: No

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  24. KAM: To Ed. G’s concern that SC is “gunna hafta cansul the seezun,” No Ed, they will play the season and see where the chips might fall

    DON: It could be a mediocre to a great year, and anything in between

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