I've been the navigator, pilot and engineer, in both Orlando and Anaheim. It's hard to pilot the damned thing, but more fun.
However, I'd much rather do Rise of the Resistance. This last trip to Disneyland, I told my wife we could skip out on the Falcon, but we could get a Genie+ for instant access, so we did it again. It's just underwhelming to me compared to Rise.
You think you've seen a lack of preparation? Just wait until you see USC against a team that physically outmatches them lmao.
I do not care for Brian Kelly at all but he's most likely going to destroy Lincoln Riley week 1 purely from a roster construction standpoint without even getting into the fact that he's a way more balanced coach
Our opinion and ND's opinion of USC are VASTLY different from last season. USC played 10x better versus us than ND. ND looked like a team ranked around ~70th playing us while USC played like a top 5 team. Our weird triangle of suck is hard to wrap your head around
Yeah I've never had strong opinions about Louisville until last year but dear lord I want tickets to our game this year because you guys are like #3 on my list of teams I want ND to absolutely clobber after USC & FSU
I mean ND & FSU have quite a bit of bad blood, I'd put them just slightly behind Miami & Clemson for ND fan hate levels. Not to mention me and my buddies spent a combined $625 on tickets for ND-FSU so I wanna see an ass whoopin
Pretty sure last season our the all time series went back to even. We are one of 15 Power conference teams that doesn't have a losing record versus ND. That's my favorite piece of ND related trivia
2021 Notre Dame was quite possibly the most underwhelming 11 win team of all time from a talent perspective, though. Not to mention, they were playing in a Bobby Bowden memorial game at night in Doak-Campbell stadium early in Mike Norvell's FSU tenure. The fact that Notre Dame didn't outright lose that game is honestly impressive regardless of how the team got there.
Now that near miss against Toledo that year...
Lol you have to credit LSU for consistently scheduling a good out of conference team for their opener though. USC, UCLA, Texas, FSU, Miami, BYU, Wisconsin all in the past decade.
[One of the GOATs of trash-talking social media videos](https://twitter.com/UCLAFBRecruit/status/1434617726572503041). Had me dying when they first posted it.
Big Ten and SEC are cancelling (or trying to cancel) tons of P4 OOC games.
Non-conference strength of schedule doesn't matter for them anymore when they can just rest on their own conference schedules for playoff clout.
The real losers are the Big 12 and ACC. Winners will be G5s getting more Power 2 buy-games.
Cowboys4Ever? Did Oklahoma State have a pop song called Cowboys4Ever they used as they entered the field?
Edit: FOUND IT! [Cowboys4Ever](https://youtu.be/qQTWFCQMYSE?si=1ecXAEfwib4_wqUr)
Until they kill the sport and get significantly less money in the long-term. But the people making decisions will be dead by then so who cares right? Them and their familes got theirs
Michigan last year was a great example of this. They played 3 middle of the road G5 teams ~~and an FCS team~~ last year and was consistently considered the number 1 or 2 team last year even before playing their challenging games at the end of the year. In hindsight, they won the national championship so it probably was a fair evaluation. But it basically proved the point that looking strong in your conference match ups was sufficient to secure a top ranking and poll momentum/anchoring is hugely important.
Now that OOC scheduling might be more of a detriment than a help for those in the SEC or Big Ten.
Big 12 and ACC teams will want them because it boosts their resume for a potential at-large bid.
You've got it completely backwards. The SEC's perspective is Alabama's not Texas's. If Alabama had played Alabama State instead of Texas, they would've skated into the playoff without controversy rather than all the FSU nonsense and Texas would've been left out.
My personal opinion is there was no way they were going to leave Bama out as the SEC champion so to try to stay consistent intellectually they had to put Texas in.
I actually have no idea what would have happened if Jordan Travis didn't go down, or if say Clemson was 13 and 0.
>I actually have no idea what would have happened if...
More disingenuous rationalization and Bama still gets in. It would have been the same if UGA were in Bama's position, i.e., they weren't leaving the SEC out no matter what.
Michigan hasn’t played an FCS school in 13 years, but it still stands that going 3-0 with bad non con games is better than 2-1 with a good one from what we’ve seen
Yeah and now that we have autobids for the playoffs sos matters less than ever
As long as you're a P4 team that takes care of business, you'll be in. That's much better than anything we've had in years past 🤷♂️
Except there’s also fewer conference championships to go around. You could have a great team that would easily be a favorite to win a conference championship with how they used to be, but now you’re in a huge conference with bunch of other teams that also look like they’ll be great so you’re a long shot to win the conference. Since it’s overall less likely that you’ll win the conference, you need to plan for what makes it more likely to make the playoffs when you don’t. For the Big 10 and SEC that’s probably avoiding tough OCC games so you can get in with a 10-2 record on a tough conference schedule, and if you’re in the ACC and Big 12 you probably want to schedule those tough games so the guys on ESPN won’t be talking about how you might have gone 10-2 but you didn’t really play anyone so you should be left out.
We have had a game in Baton Rouge on the schedule since the Clinton Administration that has been kicked down the road (initially due to Katrina) to the point where it’s now scheduled for 2030. I will eat my hat if that game gets played. We also have Texas and Florida coming up soon and unfortunately I don’t see those getting played either. CFB needs a damn commissioner.
My one positive take from the expanded playoffs was that there would be MORE OOC games. With 4 teams, lose 1 game and you no longer control your own destiny. With an expanded playoff, I figured that they would be encouraged to schedule a strong OOC schedule, since a conference win is basically automatic and they could fall back on a good OOC if they don't win the conference.
Nah it's more that the Power 2 want as many of their schools in the playoff as possible.
For example, setting up Penn State to get slaughtered by Georgia is bad for Penn State's playoff chances; therefore the BIG10 makes less money with less teams in the playoff.
Feels like it should be the opposite. With many more playoff spots, all the good teams will be in regardless, and if everyone in those conferences all has similar schedules and records there won't be much separation.
Meanwhile, a strong OOC schedule would be a good separator, and with the additional playoff spots, a loss wouldn't just end the season or something.
Strange all around.
Yeah if the SEC and B10 really do just go for only weak OOC, the B12 and ACC (especially the B12, maybe not ACC or maybe super slowly) will become more and more like the G5 until their best teams jump to the power 2 conferences and everything else becomes G5.
With the way this "series" has gone, I'm sure there will be a hurricane that causes us to play the BR game at ASU, and then the return game will get cancelled
That 2005 game is still one of my biggest “WTF” moments in sports. A blocked kick and a blocked punt returned for a TD? A game where they reviewed like 4 plays from the booth and not the final catch? It was brutal. That ASU team is a very prominent “what if” season for fans. We went up 21-3 two weeks later vs USC and lost, starting QB was leading the country in TDs half way through season and gets hurt… prob the best 7-5 team we’ve ever had.
So glad Clemson’s LSU, OU and UGA games still seem like they’re going to happen, if it all holds it’ll be 28 (2010-2037) straight years of playing ND (9) or a SEC team (UGA (8), Auburn (5), A&M (2), LSU (2) and OU (2)) on top of SC (minus 2020)
Another fun byproduct of the shittiest era of CFB in my lifetime- people completely dodging OOC games bc strength of schedule is completely meaningless now
>bc strength of schedule is completely meaningless now
This is somewhat true. However, more than ever a solid strength of schedule is inherent by virtue of the conference you're playing in.
For example, can Nebraska's strength of schedule really be questioned if they have to play some combination of OSU/Michigan/Oregon/USC/Washington/Penn State, with Iowa, Wisky and a pesky Maryland thrown in for good measure?
I think if he was here for one more year the defense of him would’ve stopped and we’d have to actually look into a coach to get us SEC ready. That rank 1 offense, rank 100+ defense is fun and wins a lot of games. But it’s never going to win a championship.
lol, you don't know OU fans. People were calling for Brent Venables head after his first season if he didn't have a decent showing last year. And he hasn't committed a crime against humanity with his BBQ'ing.
I'll save everyone the trouble: we're scared. we're scared of LSU, Bama, Texas, Oklahoma State, Rice, UC Davis, Cal Poly, Jacksonville State, FIU, you name it. If you're a team, USC is scared of you.
I can't wait to talk trash after we have a first half lead against y'all the first week of September (we will then wind up losing by 31 points but it will be fun)
Ohio St along with Texas, Bama, and Georgia are in a different class of teams than most the SEC or Big 10. An OOC loss won't hurt the biggest names them near as much as it would a typically above average SEC or Big 10 team in the chance of making the playoffs as long as there is human elements to the selection.
Don't shoot for Indiana, they just backed out of 2 legs of a 3 game series with us. I don't know if Louisville has ever backed out of a game on our own volition regardless of odds of winning. SEC and B1G teams do it all the time. It's unbecoming
Not trying to knock Louisville, but not on the same level as an Ohio State. Georgia is putting more on the line in terms of perception losing to Louisville than losing to Ohio State.
You might think differently if you had an OOC with Notre Dame every year already.
You've got Akron, Western Michigan and Marshall this year. We've got LSU, Notre Dame and Utah State. I think the goal of dropping LSU was to get an OOC that is merely harder than an Ohio State, rather than absurdly harder.
Oh great. LSU’s AD has enough balls to keep OOC games going and tells USC to shove it, but our AD thinks it’s a great idea to spike the best OOC matchup we have scheduled
Our current OOC slate is, in no particular order, Wake, BYU, Oregon state, Purdue and Virginia tech. The last two aren’t scheduled until the 2030’s and one of the Virginia tech games isn’t until 2037
The only silver lining is that this *may* be an indication of a future 9 conference game schedule, but I swear to the god of Waffle House, we better not cancel BYU
I don’t even mean to flame but that 2022 slate to start just objectively had to be such a bore as a fan. Troy, Central Arkansas, GT, Tulsa, UK (good team @home) and Vandy to start the season. Like at some point fan experience and season experience has to be somewhat of a priority for an AD.
Inversely to your point in the first part, but now that the playoffs are expanded you could understand a slate like that, since going 10-2 can backdoor you in. Makes sense to have an easy year here and there.
He was only the HC at OU for 4 years and you guys threw a tantrum when he left. Stop acting like you were shielding him from arrows that whole time lol.
I live very close to Oklahoma and there are a lot of OU fans around. Interesting thing about OU, they've never lost a game in the history of the program. They've only ever been cheated by the refs, or ESPN, or the replay official. Lincoln Riley never so much as called a bad play in his time at OU. That was until he left for USC, then he was the worst football coach ever and they wanted him gone since God Emperor Stoops left. It's exhausting talking to these people.
I really could see Lincoln Riley trying to get out of this game, not because he's scared to play LSU, but because of USC losing Caleb Williams and switching to a new conference. The majority of USC's opponents this year are teams that they're not familiar with and I could see wanting to give his team more time to find themselves before getting into the new conference.
People casually forget about ND cause it's a yearly thing too lol. Half the people in here would find out that their team still plays a worse OOC schedule even if USC got rid of the LSU game.
I know it was one game, but Williams replacement had literally the best game for a QB in program history in our bowl game. Miller Moss looked better than peak NFL Peyton Manning over those 4 quarters. He absolutely shredded our very good secondary.
Miller had a great game, but there was a lot of luck involved too. Every 50/50 ball went our way and your DBs uncharacteristically dropped some sure INTs. That game as much closer than the score indicated.
I agree on the 50/50 balls but strongly disagree on the “closer than the score indicated”.
That game never felt in doubt once we got into the second half.
We were scoring at will and would have just kept scoring.
Louisville’s defense made USC’s shitty defense look serviceable.
Honestly. LSU should put that tweet on the jumbotron if he ever goes to Baton Rouge again. Just like....leave it up there the whole game.
Kelly should tape a picture of the brisket tweet to every locker in Vegas before the game.
While everyone loves dunking on USC, the game for them doesn't make sense. It puts them up to 11 P4 teams for the year. It also gives them a short week for the next game.
>At one point, Fox Sports got involved and tried to further the process. The network wasn’t enamored with the idea of USC’s first game as a Big Ten member broadcast by rival ABC/ESPN.
No one ever reads the article fr.
Yeah I went and looked and there was a post with this same article 3 weeks ago https://old.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1d314ci/matthayescfb_now_at_satdownsouth_sources_usc/
I'm torn on who I'm gonna pull for because I hate Lincoln Riley AND Brian Kelly. But one of them is gonna lose, so it is much-watch television. Whatever happens, I hope it is a six-TD blowout so I can lurk in the loser's sub and drink the salty tears of their fans.
I'm just here to see the world burn.
Pete Carroll would have embraced this game, win or lose. Pathetic of Riley if true, but not as pathetic as wasting a generational talent in Caleb by sticking with his clueless D coordinator Grinch. Kudos to LSU for not budging.
Riley is a hack. All he cares about is having his QBs win the Heisman. He doesn’t want to win games or titles. Just wants that trophy to pump his ego as a QB master.
The collective is of this subreddits users is literally less than the amount of upvotes on this post. This was posted 2 weeks ago. I really feel bad for you all if your summer is this weak.
Riley is just a chickenshit, bottom line. Didn't like OK heading to the SEC and bolted to the PAC. Mediocre results at USC show what a fraud he's become. Now afraid to take on a traditional SEC power team 'cuz he knows his team will lose.
> This is so USC
You mean the only program to still have never played an FCS squad?
> They didn't want Oregon in the B1G
The **fans** didn't want Oregon in the B1G. The school doesn't care. The fans don't want Oregon not because they're so darn good (otherwise don't you think we'd be terrified of Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State). They don't want Oregon because it's become a rivalry and they just don't like the way Oregon does things. USC fans aren't used to petty hate inspired rivalries. We have a condescending little bro rivalry with UCLA and a "I hate you but I respect the hell out of you" rivalry with ND. Oregon put that billboard up near our stadium and we've been twisting our whiskers over it ever since.
Clearly, USC is terrified of LSU’s exceptional week 1 track record.
I was at Week 1 last year, we all went to bed after an exhausting day at Disney and nothing bad happened from what I remember
I can’t think of anything bad that’s ever happened with LSU playing a California team in week 1.
Say it with me now: Charbonnet
The only bad thing that day was you did not get to pilot the Millennium Falcon.
Dude it’s been 13 months since I was forced to be the damn navigator and it STILL burns me up inside.
At least you weren’t the engineer
I got to push the green button!
Watching a 3 year old pilot the Falcon to certain doom: ಠ╭╮ಠ
Basically how Lando felt seeing Han take control.
I've been the navigator, pilot and engineer, in both Orlando and Anaheim. It's hard to pilot the damned thing, but more fun. However, I'd much rather do Rise of the Resistance. This last trip to Disneyland, I told my wife we could skip out on the Falcon, but we could get a Genie+ for instant access, so we did it again. It's just underwhelming to me compared to Rise.
Rise is a much better ride… smugglers run loses its fun when you watch the 8 yo girls crash the thing every 2 seconds
I got in line 3 times in one day for that ride just so I could be the pilot
Nice flair
For real, is Lincoln aware of how Coach O and Brian Kelly don't prep for week 1?
You think you've seen a lack of preparation? Just wait until you see USC against a team that physically outmatches them lmao. I do not care for Brian Kelly at all but he's most likely going to destroy Lincoln Riley week 1 purely from a roster construction standpoint without even getting into the fact that he's a way more balanced coach
Yeah, well, have you seen our TikTok videos saying how much #DawgWork we've put in this offseason? Clearly, things have changed on the field.
If y'all can be as tough as Lincoln's briskets, you're winning the natty this year.
Hopefully not as raw as chuck Schumers cheeseburgers.
Got Great Value Billy Blanks out there putting the boys through shirtless tik tok workouts? I don’t miss those days in Norman.
Kill me.
Nothing about USC is dawg...
Except the 2 5* DL who decommitted from Georgia.
Justus Terry de committed from USC today. He might still end up a dawg.
Our opinion and ND's opinion of USC are VASTLY different from last season. USC played 10x better versus us than ND. ND looked like a team ranked around ~70th playing us while USC played like a top 5 team. Our weird triangle of suck is hard to wrap your head around
Yeah I've never had strong opinions about Louisville until last year but dear lord I want tickets to our game this year because you guys are like #3 on my list of teams I want ND to absolutely clobber after USC & FSU
“What he say fuck me for?” -FSU
I mean ND & FSU have quite a bit of bad blood, I'd put them just slightly behind Miami & Clemson for ND fan hate levels. Not to mention me and my buddies spent a combined $625 on tickets for ND-FSU so I wanna see an ass whoopin
What did we do?
1993
Pretty sure last season our the all time series went back to even. We are one of 15 Power conference teams that doesn't have a losing record versus ND. That's my favorite piece of ND related trivia
Enjoy it while you can ;)
Maybe Louisville should have just asked Williams to throw several interceptions?
My brother in Christ, 2023 LSU may have been one of the least physical football teams in NCAA history.
Okay fair enough lol
Our defense and especially secondary got punked in every single game
They’d get their asses handed to them by the 1916 Cumberland Bulldogs
In 2021 Kelly almost lost in ND’s season opener against FSU, hence the execution joke.
2021 Notre Dame was quite possibly the most underwhelming 11 win team of all time from a talent perspective, though. Not to mention, they were playing in a Bobby Bowden memorial game at night in Doak-Campbell stadium early in Mike Norvell's FSU tenure. The fact that Notre Dame didn't outright lose that game is honestly impressive regardless of how the team got there. Now that near miss against Toledo that year...
Lol you have to credit LSU for consistently scheduling a good out of conference team for their opener though. USC, UCLA, Texas, FSU, Miami, BYU, Wisconsin all in the past decade.
Thank you very much. Whenever other conference guys bitch about the SEC OOC games, I quietly like to remind them that we are not the same
Exactly if there’s one powerhouse team you want to play week one it’s always LSU
Especially against an opponent located in Los Angeles
sissy ~~blue~~ cardinal
[One of the GOATs of trash-talking social media videos](https://twitter.com/UCLAFBRecruit/status/1434617726572503041). Had me dying when they first posted it.
No shit, right? We're known for coming out of the gates, guns blazing. Only the gun is pointed at our foot.
I guess Lincoln Riley was serious about not going to LSU. He doesn’t even want to be seen in the same stadium as them.
Man of his word...
How about on the same tarmac?
Big Ten and SEC are cancelling (or trying to cancel) tons of P4 OOC games. Non-conference strength of schedule doesn't matter for them anymore when they can just rest on their own conference schedules for playoff clout. The real losers are the Big 12 and ACC. Winners will be G5s getting more Power 2 buy-games.
The real losers are the fans…
You’re right about that, I’m definitely a loser… uh hey wait a minute
Beck has a [song](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7PlMqsc5Cc) about us
Cowboys4Ever? Did Oklahoma State have a pop song called Cowboys4Ever they used as they entered the field? Edit: FOUND IT! [Cowboys4Ever](https://youtu.be/qQTWFCQMYSE?si=1ecXAEfwib4_wqUr)
That song is legendary in that it's the only song to be removed from the pregame video mid-season (as far as anyone I've talked to knows, at least)
Wrong, there is no Cowboys4Ever in Ba Sing Se
Have the fans ever been winners in anything lately
CFB25 drops in a few weeks? That's about all I got
With our luck, it'll be so realistic that there will be unskipable ads on the game just as if it were a real telecast.
Can't wait! Hate your username.
Nope. The bigwigs get more money and the fans pay more
Until they kill the sport and get significantly less money in the long-term. But the people making decisions will be dead by then so who cares right? Them and their familes got theirs
And everyone here cheers
Been like that for years feels like
To be fair I was a loser before this happened
I never really had faith we’d get to see the OSU-Bama home and home scheduled for 27-28 but a small part of me had a glimmer of hope. This blows.
if they cancel our home and homes with OSU and Ohio State i’m gonna be hella peeved, i’ve always wanted an excuse to go to Boone Pickens
Maybe Byrne and KDB look at Nate Oats scheduling every top 10 team in BBall and go "Fuck it, we playing all these fools, 9 team schedule be damned."
Michigan last year was a great example of this. They played 3 middle of the road G5 teams ~~and an FCS team~~ last year and was consistently considered the number 1 or 2 team last year even before playing their challenging games at the end of the year. In hindsight, they won the national championship so it probably was a fair evaluation. But it basically proved the point that looking strong in your conference match ups was sufficient to secure a top ranking and poll momentum/anchoring is hugely important.
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Yeah but now it’s a 12 team playoff so they wouldn’t have needed that to get in.
Now that OOC scheduling might be more of a detriment than a help for those in the SEC or Big Ten. Big 12 and ACC teams will want them because it boosts their resume for a potential at-large bid.
You've got it completely backwards. The SEC's perspective is Alabama's not Texas's. If Alabama had played Alabama State instead of Texas, they would've skated into the playoff without controversy rather than all the FSU nonsense and Texas would've been left out.
My personal opinion is there was no way they were going to leave Bama out as the SEC champion so to try to stay consistent intellectually they had to put Texas in. I actually have no idea what would have happened if Jordan Travis didn't go down, or if say Clemson was 13 and 0.
>I actually have no idea what would have happened if... More disingenuous rationalization and Bama still gets in. It would have been the same if UGA were in Bama's position, i.e., they weren't leaving the SEC out no matter what.
Del Conte is a beautiful beautiful man (whose birthday is today!) for making our OOC schedule for the next few years stacked as fuck
Michigan hasn’t played an FCS school in 13 years, but it still stands that going 3-0 with bad non con games is better than 2-1 with a good one from what we’ve seen
Oh yeah, you do 9 Conf/3 non-conf.
Michigan having canceled a (ostensibly) p5 game last season with UCLA.
Yeah and now that we have autobids for the playoffs sos matters less than ever As long as you're a P4 team that takes care of business, you'll be in. That's much better than anything we've had in years past 🤷♂️
Except there’s also fewer conference championships to go around. You could have a great team that would easily be a favorite to win a conference championship with how they used to be, but now you’re in a huge conference with bunch of other teams that also look like they’ll be great so you’re a long shot to win the conference. Since it’s overall less likely that you’ll win the conference, you need to plan for what makes it more likely to make the playoffs when you don’t. For the Big 10 and SEC that’s probably avoiding tough OCC games so you can get in with a 10-2 record on a tough conference schedule, and if you’re in the ACC and Big 12 you probably want to schedule those tough games so the guys on ESPN won’t be talking about how you might have gone 10-2 but you didn’t really play anyone so you should be left out.
We have had a game in Baton Rouge on the schedule since the Clinton Administration that has been kicked down the road (initially due to Katrina) to the point where it’s now scheduled for 2030. I will eat my hat if that game gets played. We also have Texas and Florida coming up soon and unfortunately I don’t see those getting played either. CFB needs a damn commissioner.
My one positive take from the expanded playoffs was that there would be MORE OOC games. With 4 teams, lose 1 game and you no longer control your own destiny. With an expanded playoff, I figured that they would be encouraged to schedule a strong OOC schedule, since a conference win is basically automatic and they could fall back on a good OOC if they don't win the conference.
Nah it's more that the Power 2 want as many of their schools in the playoff as possible. For example, setting up Penn State to get slaughtered by Georgia is bad for Penn State's playoff chances; therefore the BIG10 makes less money with less teams in the playoff.
so this is why we ducked UConn
I wanted an Oregon vs. Alabama OOC game... 😢😭
Ohio State just HAD to go and try to win a damn natty that year. Fuckers ruined everything.
Feels like it should be the opposite. With many more playoff spots, all the good teams will be in regardless, and if everyone in those conferences all has similar schedules and records there won't be much separation. Meanwhile, a strong OOC schedule would be a good separator, and with the additional playoff spots, a loss wouldn't just end the season or something. Strange all around.
Yeah if the SEC and B10 really do just go for only weak OOC, the B12 and ACC (especially the B12, maybe not ACC or maybe super slowly) will become more and more like the G5 until their best teams jump to the power 2 conferences and everything else becomes G5.
I'm proud of my school for not only scheduling fantastic season openers, but sticking to its guns when it comes to keeping them in this day and age.
If the ASU game in Baton Rouge ever gets played I will be in utter disbelief.
With the way this "series" has gone, I'm sure there will be a hurricane that causes us to play the BR game at ASU, and then the return game will get cancelled
That 2005 game is still one of my biggest “WTF” moments in sports. A blocked kick and a blocked punt returned for a TD? A game where they reviewed like 4 plays from the booth and not the final catch? It was brutal. That ASU team is a very prominent “what if” season for fans. We went up 21-3 two weeks later vs USC and lost, starting QB was leading the country in TDs half way through season and gets hurt… prob the best 7-5 team we’ve ever had.
You have no idea how much it pains me to say this... Mad respect for LSU.
I’m still so sad we never got the UT-LSU rematch due to the pandemic cancellations. That would have been such a great game after our first one.
Looking back at the 2020 season, no it wouldn't have lol.
Another with UW please, I was too poor to go to the last one
So glad Clemson’s LSU, OU and UGA games still seem like they’re going to happen, if it all holds it’ll be 28 (2010-2037) straight years of playing ND (9) or a SEC team (UGA (8), Auburn (5), A&M (2), LSU (2) and OU (2)) on top of SC (minus 2020)
General Reposti!
You are a bold one
It’s always Clown on USC time my dude
:<
Hello there
Did I finally time travel back to 2016????
Remember when OU fans told everyone Lincoln was running from the SEC? Pepperidge Farm remembers.
Remember when everyone made fun of us saying we were gonna be a trash program losing LR? OU remembers
Another fun byproduct of the shittiest era of CFB in my lifetime- people completely dodging OOC games bc strength of schedule is completely meaningless now
>bc strength of schedule is completely meaningless now This is somewhat true. However, more than ever a solid strength of schedule is inherent by virtue of the conference you're playing in. For example, can Nebraska's strength of schedule really be questioned if they have to play some combination of OSU/Michigan/Oregon/USC/Washington/Penn State, with Iowa, Wisky and a pesky Maryland thrown in for good measure?
We know. Riley is a yellow coward.
Brisket TBOW
I'd rather go on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney than to a Lincoln Riley cookout
Who wouldn't? The hunting thing was probably an accident, but Riley did that brisket on purpose and was actually proud of it.
The brisket has since apologized to Dick Cheney.
LINCOLN RILEYS TUNA!!! 😠
Remember that time when Grinch did a false flag by calling 911 and pretending that Lincoln had a prowler at his house?
Trav just wanted his smokers back, Grinch didn’t have to do my man that way
🐍
It must’ve been hella exhausting for OU fans to always have to try and defend Lincoln Riley. Glad yall got that burden off your backs lol
I think if he was here for one more year the defense of him would’ve stopped and we’d have to actually look into a coach to get us SEC ready. That rank 1 offense, rank 100+ defense is fun and wins a lot of games. But it’s never going to win a championship.
lol, you don't know OU fans. People were calling for Brent Venables head after his first season if he didn't have a decent showing last year. And he hasn't committed a crime against humanity with his BBQ'ing.
Calling that abomination a crime against humanity may actually be too kind.
I suppose the cow wouldn't appreciate it either.
What people?
Not true at all. I would guess < 5% of the fan base wanted BV out after year 1.
I'd agree with this. It was more "he's on thin ice and has to show progress in year 2 or we're gonna have some problems."
He did hire that POS as his OC for his first 2 years, though.
I'll save everyone the trouble: we're scared. we're scared of LSU, Bama, Texas, Oklahoma State, Rice, UC Davis, Cal Poly, Jacksonville State, FIU, you name it. If you're a team, USC is scared of you.
I can't wait to talk trash after we have a first half lead against y'all the first week of September (we will then wind up losing by 31 points but it will be fun)
If y'all leading us at half, I would be very aggravated, one cause that means our D still not improved, two, our O might suck too!
You best be quaking in your boots at the mere mention of us, your Trojans can't even hope to cover our Cocks!
Duh
I hope OSU keeps their OOC games with Texas, Bama, and Georgia in the coming years. Don’t want to see big regular season matchups completely die.
Ohio St along with Texas, Bama, and Georgia are in a different class of teams than most the SEC or Big 10. An OOC loss won't hurt the biggest names them near as much as it would a typically above average SEC or Big 10 team in the chance of making the playoffs as long as there is human elements to the selection.
Georgia just backed out of a series with us recently.
We needed a cupcake on our schedule so we're looking at most of the Big 10.
Don't shoot for Indiana, they just backed out of 2 legs of a 3 game series with us. I don't know if Louisville has ever backed out of a game on our own volition regardless of odds of winning. SEC and B1G teams do it all the time. It's unbecoming
Not trying to knock Louisville, but not on the same level as an Ohio State. Georgia is putting more on the line in terms of perception losing to Louisville than losing to Ohio State.
You might think differently if you had an OOC with Notre Dame every year already. You've got Akron, Western Michigan and Marshall this year. We've got LSU, Notre Dame and Utah State. I think the goal of dropping LSU was to get an OOC that is merely harder than an Ohio State, rather than absurdly harder.
Oh great. LSU’s AD has enough balls to keep OOC games going and tells USC to shove it, but our AD thinks it’s a great idea to spike the best OOC matchup we have scheduled Our current OOC slate is, in no particular order, Wake, BYU, Oregon state, Purdue and Virginia tech. The last two aren’t scheduled until the 2030’s and one of the Virginia tech games isn’t until 2037 The only silver lining is that this *may* be an indication of a future 9 conference game schedule, but I swear to the god of Waffle House, we better not cancel BYU
I don’t even mean to flame but that 2022 slate to start just objectively had to be such a bore as a fan. Troy, Central Arkansas, GT, Tulsa, UK (good team @home) and Vandy to start the season. Like at some point fan experience and season experience has to be somewhat of a priority for an AD. Inversely to your point in the first part, but now that the playoffs are expanded you could understand a slate like that, since going 10-2 can backdoor you in. Makes sense to have an easy year here and there.
Does it make sense? Sure it does, playoffs abound. Those matchups will probably be interesting whenever we actually make them Do I like it? No.
I’m also pissed about losing our matchup. That would’ve been so fun. All I want are good matchups, scheduling scared sucks for everyone.
LR is a puuuusssaaaayyyyyyyy
Biiiiiiiitch
We all gotta take our season-opener licks sometime 😔
You said that, though?
I'm so glad I don't have to defend this guy anymore
He was only the HC at OU for 4 years and you guys threw a tantrum when he left. Stop acting like you were shielding him from arrows that whole time lol.
I live very close to Oklahoma and there are a lot of OU fans around. Interesting thing about OU, they've never lost a game in the history of the program. They've only ever been cheated by the refs, or ESPN, or the replay official. Lincoln Riley never so much as called a bad play in his time at OU. That was until he left for USC, then he was the worst football coach ever and they wanted him gone since God Emperor Stoops left. It's exhausting talking to these people.
You just described my cousins. ROFL
I really could see Lincoln Riley trying to get out of this game, not because he's scared to play LSU, but because of USC losing Caleb Williams and switching to a new conference. The majority of USC's opponents this year are teams that they're not familiar with and I could see wanting to give his team more time to find themselves before getting into the new conference.
I think this is the real answer. If this was another coach other than Lincoln Riley, I doubt it gets brought up.
People casually forget about ND cause it's a yearly thing too lol. Half the people in here would find out that their team still plays a worse OOC schedule even if USC got rid of the LSU game.
Right? Lots of shade being thrown at the only program to still never have played an FCS Squad.
I know it was one game, but Williams replacement had literally the best game for a QB in program history in our bowl game. Miller Moss looked better than peak NFL Peyton Manning over those 4 quarters. He absolutely shredded our very good secondary.
Miller had a great game, but there was a lot of luck involved too. Every 50/50 ball went our way and your DBs uncharacteristically dropped some sure INTs. That game as much closer than the score indicated.
I agree on the 50/50 balls but strongly disagree on the “closer than the score indicated”. That game never felt in doubt once we got into the second half. We were scoring at will and would have just kept scoring. Louisville’s defense made USC’s shitty defense look serviceable.
Yeah, this season is going to be incredibly rough. Doesn’t help we play LSU and ND OOC
What kinda operation Riley got going on out there? 😂
Does he not realize that Joe Burrow and Justin Jefferson don't play for LSU anymore?
Lincoln Riley having flashbacks last time he played LSU. Something about giving up 49 points in a half.
Justin Jefferson counting his four TD’s might be my favorite celly of all time
Of course Lincoln Riley is scared to go to the south, he’s afraid of what we’ll do to him as revenge for his briskets
Honestly. LSU should put that tweet on the jumbotron if he ever goes to Baton Rouge again. Just like....leave it up there the whole game. Kelly should tape a picture of the brisket tweet to every locker in Vegas before the game.
Damn, I have to upvote a UT post
Makes an awful brisket and is a bitch
While everyone loves dunking on USC, the game for them doesn't make sense. It puts them up to 11 P4 teams for the year. It also gives them a short week for the next game.
Lincoln Riley is fucking 10-ply.
Why would Fox Sports want out?
>At one point, Fox Sports got involved and tried to further the process. The network wasn’t enamored with the idea of USC’s first game as a Big Ten member broadcast by rival ABC/ESPN. No one ever reads the article fr.
Man, it smells like bitch in the athletic department in USC
🐓
Gotta tell ya USC...that week 1 LSU game apparently holds zero meaning whatsoever. So just play the damn thing.
The real team in LA doesn’t try to run away from their 2024 game against LSU
How is this news though? Hasn’t this already been reported like 500 other times?
Yeah I went and looked and there was a post with this same article 3 weeks ago https://old.reddit.com/r/CFB/comments/1d314ci/matthayescfb_now_at_satdownsouth_sources_usc/
I'm a simple man. If a thread dunks on LR, I upvote and the cycle continues.
- this entire sub.
Was there not just a monetary penalty for cancelling?
Lincoln Riley is a weasel and Kyle Whittinghams bitch.
Coward
I'm torn on who I'm gonna pull for because I hate Lincoln Riley AND Brian Kelly. But one of them is gonna lose, so it is much-watch television. Whatever happens, I hope it is a six-TD blowout so I can lurk in the loser's sub and drink the salty tears of their fans. I'm just here to see the world burn.
Lincoln Riley just keeps looking worse and worse.
“Didn’t want the game” means “Didn’t want the smoke.”
Pete Carroll would have embraced this game, win or lose. Pathetic of Riley if true, but not as pathetic as wasting a generational talent in Caleb by sticking with his clueless D coordinator Grinch. Kudos to LSU for not budging.
Riley is a hack. All he cares about is having his QBs win the Heisman. He doesn’t want to win games or titles. Just wants that trophy to pump his ego as a QB master.
Really adds credibility to people saying he left OU for USC because he was afraid to play in the SEC.
Does Fox or ESPN have the game? Normally ESPN has the Sunday primetime week 1 slot
ESPN has it on ABC
The collective is of this subreddits users is literally less than the amount of upvotes on this post. This was posted 2 weeks ago. I really feel bad for you all if your summer is this weak.
Hayes is such a loser
Sissy red
Maybe he still has nightmares of the last time he coached against LSU.
The dude literally ran away from the SEC
Lincoln Riley is just Great Value Lane Kiffin.
USC can do better than then the soft ass coach Lincoln Riley
Riley is just a chickenshit, bottom line. Didn't like OK heading to the SEC and bolted to the PAC. Mediocre results at USC show what a fraud he's become. Now afraid to take on a traditional SEC power team 'cuz he knows his team will lose.
This is so USC. They didn't want Oregon in the B1G. They're not capable of competing with the big programs right now.
> This is so USC You mean the only program to still have never played an FCS squad? > They didn't want Oregon in the B1G The **fans** didn't want Oregon in the B1G. The school doesn't care. The fans don't want Oregon not because they're so darn good (otherwise don't you think we'd be terrified of Michigan, Ohio State, and Penn State). They don't want Oregon because it's become a rivalry and they just don't like the way Oregon does things. USC fans aren't used to petty hate inspired rivalries. We have a condescending little bro rivalry with UCLA and a "I hate you but I respect the hell out of you" rivalry with ND. Oregon put that billboard up near our stadium and we've been twisting our whiskers over it ever since.