In-season re-rank of USCfootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans for 2025

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2025

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino are back together for a special behind-the-scenes edition of the Helium Boys Podcast. The Helium Boys work through the process of compiling and debating an in-season re-rank of USCfootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans' list after five games of action. For the last six seasons, the USCfootball.com staff has counted down the Top 30 Most Important Trojans in a series of offseason articles leading up to the kickoff of fall camp. But we've never attempted an in-season re-rank, so this was a little bit of a new endeavor building off a familiar foundation. As always, each USCfootball.com staff member submits his own list of whom he/she believes will be the most important Trojans. Considerations for the rankings factor in a number of items including positional depth, prior stats, overall talent, projected development and expectations. The only guidance we try to follow is that the most important factor for placement is if this particular player was lost for the season, how detrimental would it be to the team and the overall success of the season. The individual lists are submitted and compiled before Shotgun and Chris come together to sift through the information, debate and assemble the official USCfootball.com rankings. In this podcast, the Helium Boys give you a peek behind the curtain, allowing you to listen in on the re-rankings discussion as we sift, sort and come up with our final rankings for our first-ever in-season re-rank. There were some notable high risers, including the tight ends who have been much bigger weapons than we anticipated. There were also a couple of players that had been in position battles that have taken the starting mantle and excelled. There also have been some players whose importance declined through a lack of impact play. Please review, rate and subscribe to the Peristyle Podcast on ⁠⁠Apple Podcasts⁠⁠! Make sure you check out ⁠⁠USCFootball.com⁠⁠ for complete coverage of this USC Trojans basketball and football teams. 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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0:00.0	Hello and welcome into a special edition of a presented by the Healing and Boys podcast.
0:20.5	I am your co-host shotgun spratling along with
0:23.8	the better half of the helium boys chris trivino chris how are we doing today tired i'm tired it's
0:32.1	it's a bi week you're supposed to be getting your freshness you're supposed to be getting fresh this
0:35.9	week i somehow feel like i'm doing
0:38.0	more but less work during the biweek i don't know how why am i doing a podcast on friday morning
0:44.6	after warm room night why am i doing that shotgun well the reason is and why this is a presented by
0:50.4	healing boy's podcast is because we decided to finally do what we've always teased that we
0:55.9	would do is a bi-week re-rank of our top 30 most important Trojans. So I mean, I felt like
1:04.3	we had an opportunity to get a good grasp of this team a third of the way through the season.
1:09.9	And because we do have a little bit
1:11.4	extra time you know especially with them coming off a loss let's mix it up do something a little
1:15.4	bit different and chris uh is obliging us by joining this podcast even though it is early morning there
1:21.3	on friday i need a mimosa was there mimosa i wish i had a mim. This would make it go by so much faster. Yeah, very, very ryan-coded. I understand that, but a mimosa would hit so hard right now. It's already 1230 here, so I've already gotten a flu shot this morning. I'm ready to go. Still in the mimosa range. Still very much in the mimosa threshold.
1:48.2	Well, 1230s normally when I, you know, it's about an hour after I've woken up,
1:49.8	but I've been up for a little while today, so.
1:51.2	Are you a Bloody Mary guy?
1:53.4	I do not drink Bloody Mary's.
1:59.3	I will have a mimosa, but especially like the, when it's different than ours shoes. I like the different flavors, you know, mix it up.
2:02.3	But Chris, we're talking top 30 most important Trojans.
2:07.1	This is a list that we've done since 2020.
2:11.0	And starting in 2022, we started doing a re-rank after fall camp.
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