Sports Illustrated’s Pat Forde and Yahoo Sports senior college sports reporter Ross Dellenger discuss the Trojans’ tough schedule for the upcoming season — its first in the Big Ten Conference. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Enquirer” podcast – and subscribe on , or wherever you listen.
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Us c thinks highly enough of itself that they think they should be going to the playoff and they hired Lincoln Riley to go to the playoff, not to, you know, go eight and five like they did last year.
So there is expectation, there’s pride, there’s vanity.
But again, this is also, this is not the Ohio State fan base.
Um, in terms of like, you’re not gonna have 4 million people actively losing their minds when they lose a game and their schedule is wild.
I mean, it is wild.
You start with LSU, you end with Notre Dame, both of whom are playoff contender teams and then in, in between, there you go at Michigan, you got to go at Minnesota at Maryland.
So there’s three trips like Dan was saying, and that’s in a span of five games.
That’s September 21st to October 19th.
Um, you’ve got, I think a sneaky game against Nebraska out in Los Angel in November.
You got the rivalry game with UCL A, the schedule is who it’s a rough one, you know.
Yeah, if you look at the schedule, they might be, I mean, preseason, maybe underdogs in four maybe five of the, of the games, as Pat did mention, they hired Lincoln violated and paid him all the money they are paying him to go to the playoff no matter what.
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