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USC Morning Buzz: Let’s Analyze The Schedule

OK, here is my analysis of USC schedule:

Lincoln Riley has massaged the schedule to his liking: Notre Dame out. San Jose State, Louisiana and Fresno State in. USC should start the season 4-0 before it plays the biggest game of the year vs. Oregon at the Coliseum. If the Trojans win, they will be in an excellent position to make the playoff. If they lose, they will need to beat either Ohio State or Indiana while also avoiding any unexpected slip ups.

That is easier said than done because there are some legitimate trap games. USC will host Washington, travel to Penn State and face UCLA at the Rose Bowl. None of those games are considered sure-fire victories. There is also a trip to Wisconsin.

It all means there is a razor-thin margin of error for meeting expectations. Three losses doesn’t get you into the playoffs.

  • Dartmouth pitcher Nate Kugler has committed to USC. He was 2-4 last season with a 3.35 ERA.

10 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Let’s Analyze The Schedule”

  1. KAM: Enjoy the journey not the visit. There are some little Super Bowls in SC’s schedule like Oregon and Ohio St.

    DON: I would be happy with wins over those two schools notwithstanding any Playoffs

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    1. KAM: For decades the Southern Poverty Law Center has been a billionaire-dollar smear factory, labeling conservative Christians, parents at school board meetings, pro-life groups, border hawks, and anyone who disagrees with the radical left as “hate groups” while raking in donor cash.

      Senile Joe B i d e n ’ s DOJ and FBI treated their junk lists like gospel. Now the mask is off. Congress is finally asking the question every American should’ve been asking for years.

      DON:This isn’t about fighting hate. It’s about weaponizing the term “hate” to silence, cancel, and destroy their political enemies.

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      1. Right Real Gabby. Every Marxist/Fascist group starts with an attack on free speech – Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Castro, ect. They do things such as instituting speech codes in colleges, demanding false pronouns when addressing transvestites, encouraging MSM to advance the party narrative only, shutting down any opposition speech on social media outlets such as Meta, Twitter, and Google, and attempting to institute a department of misinformation within the department of homeland security to filter out opposition opinions. And if you are a threat to their agenda, they charge the opposition leader with phony crimes and try to throw him in jail. Or try to bankrupt him in civil court. Or impeach him so he can’t run again even after he left office. Or attempt to take him off the ballot. Or attempt to assassinate him. And if he happens to be elected in spite of these attempts, you have the press claim he colluded with the enemy to throw the election and have a phony investigation to thwart his agenda. Or you file phony lawsuits in front of partisan judges that attack every decision that he makes and seek nationwide injunctive relief.

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  2. KAM: It’s nice that SC is becoming a ‘player again on the national stage

    DON: You know that SC at Penn St and Indiana will be a big deal for the locals. The Trojans carry a reputation of once being an elite team and still are a tough out

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      1. We have as good a chance at becoming “a player” again with LR at the helm as Insane Gabby does of not posting nonsense for the rest of the year. Heck, even the rest of the month!

        Not gonna happen.

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  3. Scott, this was a good realistic analysis of the USC schedule. No one can say that this is an easy schedule. If the Trojans can win ten games, they deserve to be in the playoffs. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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    1. “No one can say that this is an easy schedule. ” I think Scott just did Dan.

      “Lincoln Riley has massaged the schedule to his liking: Notre Dame out. San Jose State, Louisiana and Fresno State in. “

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      1. You are right, Plow. Of course ND would make it a tougher schedule than San Jose State. Scott likes the tradition of playiing ND without considering the strength of the overall schedule and marquee games. Scott should be asking ND when they are going to join the Big Ten. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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