Helium Boys Podcast: USC clears Northwestern, set for massive date with Iowa and apples

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 114 minutes

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Summary

Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino return for another highly anticipated episode of the Helium Boys Podcast to discuss USC's big 38-17 win over Northwestern and a big homecoming matchup with Iowa this weekend. Shotgun spends his 'Two-Minute Drill' to set the mood for this matchup with Iowa and head coach Kirk Ferentz, who has directly taken some shots at head coach Lincoln Riley and the Trojans in recent years. Chris spends his 'Two-Minute Drill' discussing how Saturday will be a good measuring stick for USC in terms of how far the program has come since the loss to the Hawkeyes in the 2019 Holiday Bowl. The Helium Boys then dive into Stock Up, Stock Down from the home victory over Northwestern, which includes a lengthy discussion about numerology and fake punts as well as Ja'Kobi Lane's making a number of difficult catches. King Miller, Braylon Conley, Carlon Jones, Matai Tagoa'i, Makai Lemon and Jide Abasiri are among the other players mentioned positively while the offensive line had one of their worst performances of the season. In the second half of the show, Chris and Shotgun look at the Iowa Hawkeyes, coming off a narrow 18-16 loss at home to No. 7 Oregon. The Trojans will welcome the Iowa Hawkeyes to the Coliseum for the first time since 1976, which was a 55-0 blowout win for USC. This will be their first ever meeting as Big Ten opponents. This will be a rematch of the 2019 Holiday Bowl in San Diego where Iowa dominated in the second half to a 49-24 win. The Helium Boys take some quick questions before Chris forces Shotgun into another strange blind ranking. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:45.7	Okay. Welcome back to Composite 2-star recruits.
0:57.2	This is the Helium Boys podcast, a non-serious, serious U.S.C. podcast, and I'm your host this week, Chris Trevino and as always joined by my fellow Helium Boy and co-podcast person, Shotgun Spratling. Now, very exciting episode because Shotgun
1:05.1	literally has not shared his voice at all about this Northwestern game.
1:13.7	Hasn't been on Tunnel Vision, didn't do instant analysis.
1:17.1	Maybe you read some of his stuff on Twitter commenting about the game.
1:20.2	But this is the first time he's going to get to speak about this game.
1:23.0	So Shotgun, your first word's got to be very important.
1:24.8	Hi.
1:27.8	I didn't really live up. Well, has there been a gag order on me uh speaking about this game is that what it is
1:32.3	no it's just the first time it's the debut people want to know about shotgun spratling's
1:38.3	thoughts on the win over northwestern and we're going to get those thoughts on the wind over north
1:43.7	northwestern but how are you shotgun this is more you haven't you haven't you haven't Northwestern, and we're going to get those thoughts on the wind over Northwestern.
1:44.8	But how are you, shotgun?
1:46.7	I'm doing well.
1:47.4	You haven't covered a game.
1:49.4	You covered the last two.
1:50.8	You got to break off this week.
1:52.7	Yeah, I got to be a fan again, which was fun.
1:57.0	When you checked out Ruckers, the Ruckers and the Terps, Chris.
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