The college football world was flipped upside down on Saturday and Sunday in a multitude of fashions.
For starters, the College Football Playoff will likely feature more parody than ever before with schools like Cincinnati, Michigan, and Oklahoma State all having great opportunities to make their first appearances. However, all of their victories have been overshadowed by premiere schools finding their coach.
The day started off with Louisiana coach, Billy Napier, taking the head coaching job at Florida, but ended with the biggest splash in the coaching pond possible.
Oklahoma head coach Lincoln Riley, who took over for Bob Stoops as the head coach in 2017, had accumulated a 55-10 overall record and took the Sooners to three playoff appearances. Many thought Riley would follow in the footsteps of Stoops and remain as the Sooners’ head coach until his time as a college football coach was up.
That was not the case. On Sunday, it was reported that Riley had accepted the job offer to be USC’s next head coach. It was a shocking move that has sent social media and the college football world into a frenzy.
Oklahoma’s Lincoln Riley expected to be named USC’s next head coach, per @mzenitz pic.twitter.com/z9SIC72pku
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) November 28, 2021
Riley had adamantly declined being connected to the LSU job opening, but was never really asked about the USC job. It was evident that money talks and possibly the future move to the SEC for Oklahoma played a major role in his decision to head to Los Angeles.
The suddenness of the move is one that media, fans, and recruits alike were not expecting at all. Multiple Oklahoma commits have tweeted that they will not be answering questions at this time, and Sooners fans are absolutely shell-shocked at the news.
The move is so big that it not only affects Oklahoma, it impacts the college football world as a whole. Here are a few ways that Lincoln Riley’s move to USC could impact Texas’ football program for the foreseeable future.