Helium Boys Podcast: Takeaways from Lincoln Riley, Chad Bowden roundtables, ranking Super Bowl foods

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🗓️ 3 February 2026

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino return in the month of February to react to some of the big topics from head coach Lincoln Riley and general manager Chad Bowden's roundtable media sessions from Monday.

Shotgun opens the 'Two-Minute Drill' in talking about the Seattle Seahawks and Sam Darnold, plus the other Projans playing for the title. Chris talks about nothing interesting during his time in the drill blender.

The Helium Boys take on USC's decision to not pursue portal linebackers or safeties, the excitement over a full offseason with Trumain Carroll, Bowden's thoughts on culture and more. They also discuss topics from new defensive coordinator Gary Patterson's first media presser last week.

They wrap up the show by having Shotgun blind rank Super Bowl party foods.

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0:00.0	Welcome back to the Helium Boys podcast, a non-serious, serious, serious U-S.C podcast.
0:18.7	I am your host for this episode, Chris Trevino, joined by my fellow
0:22.8	Helium Boy, Shotgun, Spratling. We have not done a Helium Boys official podcast in quite some time.
0:28.7	Now, we've done some instant, quick reactions with me and Shotgun, Helium Boys Takeover,
0:35.1	but we have not done an official podcast.
0:37.7	And Shotgun, it just feels like you've been itching to get on the mics officially for the Heelian Boys. He keeps hitting me up like, we recorded tonight. We're recording tonight. I've been putting them off. But Shotgun, you have some thoughts. You have some takes. I'm assuming you're raring to go for this episode of podcasting. i mean there has been a good amount of stuff since the last time in podcast which was back
0:55.8	mid-juary so we got a couple weeks to go for this episode of podcasting. I mean, there has been a good amount of stuff since the last time in podcast, which was
0:55.5	back mid-January.
0:56.9	So we got a couple weeks of buildup here of things to discuss.
1:02.5	Big sit-down interviews for you and Connor sitting down with Lincoln Riley and Chad Bowden.
1:08.2	We'll discuss that to discuss Gary Patterson, officially being hired,
1:12.0	all that good stuff. And USC now has solidified the number one class in the country with the final
1:18.5	24-7 rankings and some big jumps for some USC players. We'll mention that a little bit. I know you
1:23.2	guys will be discussing that a lot more on the composite two star this week, but did want to jump in and chat a little bit, Chris, even though I've got a lot of baseball stuff to do because baseball season is almost here.
1:33.8	I'm excited about that.
1:35.5	But, you know, football never ends when it's a USC.
1:40.3	I meant to say that that we are going to lose shotgun to the baseball diamond.
1:44.3	He is, he is floated.
1:45.6	There's just like three months out of the year where I'm just like getting him to get on the mic or do anything like football talk football related.
1:54.8	It's impossible.
1:55.6	He's just fully in baseball mode.
1:58.0	I buried the actual lead because when I logged in here, I was fully expecting
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