3. USC coach Lincoln Riley claps while watching pregame warmups Saturday at the Coliseum. Kudos, certainly, to UCLA’s Kelly for summoning his team’s best game at its most important moment.

Lincoln Riley stood in the same stadium where USC once held an upper deck news conference proclaiming him the savior, only he was on a field littered with failure, a long way down.

It's very understandable that USC football fans want to focus on Lincoln Riley's play calling as the main reason USC didn't meet expectations in 2024. To be sure, that play selection did not rise ...

Entering bowl season, USC ranked 110th nationally in yards per play allowed and 123rd in scoring defense. Earlier this month, Riley hired UCLA defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn to replace Grinch.

If Lincoln Riley stumbles with a 2025 USC team which -- experts agree -- is not a top-tier national championship contender, it wouldn't really offer any closure or certainty about the coach.

USC head coach Lincoln Riley is being blamed for the possible discontinuation of the rivalry against Notre Dame.

Lincoln Riley is the fourth-highest-paid coach in college football, according to USA Today’s database. It’s a pretty safe bet to assume USC is in the top 10 — and probably closer to the top ...

Lincoln Riley's ultimate failure at USC is that no matter what decisions he makes, his players aren't executing in the biggest situations. Their technique is obviously not holding up under pressure.

USC's former men's basketball coach, Andy Enfield — now at SMU — was credited with nearly $4.7 million for 2023, but the return stated that he forfeited nearly $350,000 of that amount when he ...

This was the biggest win for Lincoln Riley since his heavily hyped arrival at USC. The most significant victory. The kind of complete performance that has been an anomaly for the Trojans.

From left, Rick Caruso, chair of the USC board of trustees, USC President Carol L. Folt, new football coach Lincoln Riley and USC Athletic Director Mike Bohn during a news conference to announce ...