The USC Trojans host the Rutgers Scarlet Knights in a Big Ten football game later this season. Rutgers head coach Greg Schiano was asked about the USC game at Big Ten media days on Tuesday in Indianapolis.
Schiano said the Rutgers football program has “specialists” to “help with the plan” for dealing with long-distance travel for a short week of preparation leading into a Friday game. However, he quickly added that regardless of travel and body-clock issues, what matters most is blocking and tackling. Rutgers and Schiano make no secret of their desire to play physical, hard-nosed football and win at the line of scrimmage. USC has to be physical enough to handle Rutgers. If the Trojans are able to meet the physical challenge, they have an obvious advantage in speed on the perimeter.
USC hosts Rutgers on Friday, Oct. 25 at 8 p.m. local (Pacific) time in Los Angeles on Fox Sports, right after Game 1 of the 2024 World Series. If the World Series game runs long, one should expect the start of USC-RU to be moved to Fox Sports 1.
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