USC’s ugly blowout loss to Notre Dame has the Trojans in a very bad position under Lincoln Riley. Unless they pull a rabbit out of the hat and abruptly discover how to play football at an elite level, they are likely to miss the Pac-12 Championship Game. They would go to the Holiday or Alamo Bowl.
That’s a disaster, folks.
Nothing — absolutely nothing — we have seen from USC suggests the Trojans can go 4-1 in their next five games, which is what they need to do in order to make the Pac-12 Championship Game. Going 3-2 probably won’t be good enough.
All of this is happening with Caleb Williams as the USC quarterback.
This is not a third-rate quarterback, but one of the all-time greats.
It leads us into a very uncomfortable but necessary conversation about USC’s quarterback situation for 2024 in the Big Ten.
Let’s talk: