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USC Morning Buzz: Mr. No-Compete Is Thrilled With New System

Mr. No Compete, aka Lincoln Riley, offered a full-throated endorsement for a 24-team College Football Playoff on Monday night during the Trojans Live radio show.

What a surprise. The guy who is 5-15 vs. ranked teams while at USC wants the system where 16 percent of the teams make the playoffs.

“I do think it’s going to be a really good thing for the sport,” Riley said. “I’ve yet to see a sport where you create more competition, give more teams access to the playoffs, you have more meaningful games and then somehow that doesn’t turn out to be better for the sport.”

Which games are more meaningful with a 24-game playoff? Certainly not his games vs. teams like San Jose State, Fresno State and Louisiana. Next year, he’ll also be able to lose multiple Big Ten games.

He also nuked the Notre Dame series for four years even though many predicted playoff expansion was coming.

Given how Riley celebrated that victory over 3-4 Penn State, how would he celebrate making the 24-team playoff?

41 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Mr. No-Compete Is Thrilled With New System”

      3. Good Pal [and Inside USC Protector In Chief] Gabby –I have been reading Sparrow’s posts for years & they are materially different from Sybil’s….maybe not so much in political philosophy but certainly in tone. Sparrow is not a hater…Sybil is dripping with hate …for him/herself and everyone else in the world.

        I like to think that Charlie is not Sybil…cuz I get such a kick outta Charlie…and I guess I just don’t want him to be Sybil. But the jury is out on that one.

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      4. KAM: Cowardly Sparrow Gabby held Cowardly Gabby’s coat wheile she doxxed you and your lovely bride. That can never be forgotten.

        DON: She is as hateful as her alter ego:

        “Sparrow Calypso

        September 12, 2025 at 6:19 pm

        KAM: We have The Exaggerator Gabby, Misogynist Plowhorse and now Redundant BK

        DON: Now don’t be calling them the 3-Stooges”

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      7. Well, I don’t know if Sparrow exactly held Sybil’s [fur] coat while he/she doxed me — but I’ll put it like this: Once when I was about to enter the gym at Webster Junior High School to shoot some baskets w/my two “buddies”, 3 guys jumped me in the parking lot — they literally beat me to a pulp…. afterwards my “buddies” told me “if they had hit you ONE more time we were gonna step in.”

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      9. Back in the day we had a band of toughies who roamed Sawtelle Boulevard —generally we ran from them as soon as we saw them —but this time there was no escape —we were in a closed in parking lot outside the gym. [I learned a valuable lesson —when a guy in a gang comes up to you and starts talking sh*t, it’s on —you might as well throw first —you’re not gonna talk your way outta it …and you are gonna end up taking a beating — get one shot in —and it might as well be illegal…if you know what I mean]……

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  3. DON: Someone’s eyes must be bulging out after the L.A. Times writer graded the Trojans

    KAM: An ‘A’ to the offensive line and a ‘B’ to the defensive line

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  4. Scott, can you name three FBS coaches who are not in favor of a 24 team playoff? Your fixation on LR is pathetic. And, isn’t the series with ND starting again in a couple of years? USC will always play a tough Big Ten schedule, something that the Princess school is afraid to do. The SEC went to a nine game conference schedule finally after skating with FCS competition as non-conference games for years. If USC is one of the top five teams in the 18 team Big Ten, they do deserve to be in the playoffs. With NIL and the transfer portal, there are lots of good teams as this past weekend proved. Eliminating the conference championship games will not be a loss. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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    1. Everyone has to re-evaluate USC and Riley if the Trojans beat Ohio State [yeah, I know I said that about Oregon….but, ah, I meant Ohio State]….

      #IHopeMyOhioStateCommentDoesn’tTurnIntoAnIndianaComment

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      1. …But… we need to take out Wisconsin first…. they are ranked 21st in total defense [yards per game] …and we’re ranked 21st in total offense….

        #ThisWon’tBeACakewalk

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      2. KAM: WISC reminds me of those old Don James Washington teams.

        DON: You might beat them on the scoreboard but they beat you up pretty badly on the field.

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      5. I hope you’re right….. Ohio State sez he has an extra week to get ready for us…but we also have an extra week to get ready for him [even if Wisconsin comes up before that]….

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      6. MG, you were right about both games and their importance. They better not look past Wisconsin, you know that Camp Randall will be jumping. Fight on, Dan, Class of 1962

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      2. If an option, that’s the one for me too! [Or, even if the other guy is totally in the wrong, just go with my favorite get out of jail free line, “Gee, I don’t know where my head was at!”]…..

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  6. DON: Just cannot be rid of Ed. G’s influence

    KAM: Are you talking about how “here” should have been ‘there’?

    DON: Or maybe Gabby 2’s sidekick is right and we are “stupid”

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    1. KAM: Gee who used the crotch kick cliche over and over decades ago? UCLA Fan Charlie Bucket, of course. And who uses it now? Cowardly Gabby. So Cowardly Gabby is Bruin Fan Charlie Bucket. It’s elementary, my dear Watson:

      “Charlie Bucket

      May 18, 2016 at 7:04 pm

      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”

      DON:

      Gabby

      June 9, 2026 at 9:18 pm

      BAAAAAAM……..CROTCH—–KICK——-DIRECT—–HIT!

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      4. Maybe Sybil has had a bad influence on Charlie….[yeah, sure]….

        #NoOneTellsCharlieWhatToDo….

        #NotNobody,NoHow

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  9. KAM: Wisconsin put the brakes on Knight and ucla’s running attack their defense is for real

    DON: Better start warming up the M&M boys, Maiava and Mosley

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