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Always College Football with Greg McElroy

1-on-1 with Lincoln Riley & who’s the best out West? | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.91.9K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Lincoln Riley joins the show to discuss why his ‘big picture’ rebuild of USC is coming together, how he has handled the expectations, what the #1 recruiting class in 2025 means for the Trojans, why there will be little drop off in the WR room, if this is the year the Trojans break through and much more. Plus, McElroy gives some spring intel for USC, UCLA, Oregon and Washington and asks who is the best team out West? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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The reality is, is our opportunities to win at the highest level to be the type of program that we want to be and that we know we

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can be is that time is here.

0:49.9

Hello and welcome in.

0:51.2

It's always college football.

0:52.3

I'm your host, Greg McElroy.

0:53.4

Happy to have you here with us today.

0:55.8

Very special edition of always college football because today we're going to go out west.

1:01.3

We're going to hit the west coast and we're going to hit it hard. What was formerly the pack 12,

1:06.2

four massive schools in the pack 12 with Washington, UCLA, USC, and Oregon, we're going to give them

1:12.7

their own show. And to help us do that, we'll be joined by the head coach of the USC Trojan

1:17.8

Lincoln Riley. Four years in, 35 and 18 record is yet to be to the college football playoff.

1:25.4

But right now, he's sitting on the number one recruiting

1:28.1

class in the country. He just hired a Hall of Fame defensive coordinator. The roster returns

1:33.5

a lot of guys that played very important roles last year. This could potentially be the most

1:40.6

loaded USC team of the Lincoln Riley era. So we're very much looking forward to our

1:46.4

visit with him. And like I said, we've got four other teams, including SC, I guess. So three other

1:51.9

teams. We got Intel. We got updates. And granted, yeah, some have just started spring practice.

1:57.8

Some like SC have concluded spring practice. So we got real intel going to kind of tell you what we've heard so far. So we'll do our spring practice. Some like SC have concluded spring practice. So we got real

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