Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde and Yahoo Sports senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger discuss the Trojans’ difficult schedule for the upcoming season – their first in the Big Ten Conference. Listen to the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast — and subscribe at , or wherever you listen.
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Us c thinks so highly of themselves that they think they should go to the playoffs and they hired Lincoln Riley to go to the playoffs, not to, you know, go eight and five like they did last year.
So there is expectation, there is pride, there is vanity.
But then again, this isn’t Ohio State’s fan base either.
Um, in terms of like, you’re not going to have 4 million people actively losing their minds when they lose a game and their schedule is crazy.
I mean, it’s wild.
You start with LSU, you end with Notre Dame, both playoff contenders, and in between, there you go Michigan, you have to go Minnesota to Maryland.
So it’s three trips, as Dan was saying, and that’s over a five-game span.
This is from September 21st to October 19th.
Um, I think you have a sneaky game against Nebraska in Los Angel in November.
You have the rivalry game with UCL A, the schedule is difficult, you know.
Yeah, if you look at the schedule, they could be, I mean, preseason, maybe underdogs in four, maybe five of the games, as Pat mentioned, they signed Lincoln breached and paid him all the money they’re paying him to go to the playoff no matter what.
