Lincoln Riley's confidence plus the Big Ten's potential breakaway
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
USCFootball.com - Ryan Abraham, 247Sports, USC, USC Trojans, USC football, College Football
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🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 85 minutes
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Summary
In this edition of the Peristyle Podcast hosts Ryan Abraham and RJ Abeytia are back in studio discussing the news that has come out of the Big Ten's spring meetings in Rancho Palos Verdes, at the beautiful Terranea Resort. USC football head coach Lincoln Riley likely had the shortest commute to the meetings, and he ended up speaking to Brandon Marcello about his confidence in the team they have put together for the 2026 season. With some big wins last season over Michigan, Iowa and Nebraska, 15 returning starters, the No. 1 high school recruiting class and the hiring of Hall of Fame coach Gary Patterson to run the defense, Riley feels this Trojan squad is primed for an explosion.
With athletic directors, head coaches and Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti all in attendance at Terranea, there was plenty of college football big-picture talk, from expanding the College Football Playoffs to College Sports Commission's oversight of player compensation to the Big Ten breaking away and creating its on governance model. The guys give their thoughts on what went down at the Big Ten meetings and what it could mean for the USC football program.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Trojan fans, it's time to get into the huddle with the Parastile podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | Since 2008, the Parastile podcast has been your ticket for year-round coverage of the USC football program. |
| 0:20.4 | With multiple shows per week in a wide range of experts, |
| 0:24.1 | no one covers the Trojans like the Peristyle podcast. |
| 0:28.6 | And now, here's the host of the Paristyle podcast, |
| 0:32.1 | USCFootball.com publisher, Ryan Abraham. |
| 0:37.3 | Ho! Trojan fans. Welcome to the Parasel podcast on a Thursday. It's Thursday afternoon. |
| 0:47.8 | We're going to talk a little USC Trojan football. I'm your host, Ryan Abraham. Join alongside |
| 0:53.6 | my buddy, The Real Deal, RJ, Abadia. No India |
| 0:57.3 | Auto today. We had to do a show a little bit earlier. She was not available. This week, tragic. |
| 1:02.2 | So I'm sitting in this chair hosting the show. It's been a while, RJ, since I've done this, |
| 1:07.5 | but I'm sure it'll come back to me. It's like riding a bike. But it's nice to just have India run everything, you know? I think of it as India's chair. So weird. Like in my, in my limited run, it's she's always, you know, she's always been in there. I guess we had shotgun in there on Monday, but yeah, well, I think, you know, it'll, it'll come back to you. You'll get the flow. |
| 1:29.6 | I'm going to get in the flow of this. We got a big show for you today. The big 10 |
| 1:33.9 | spring meetings were happening just down the street from here, Tarania Resort and Ranchus Palis |
| 1:39.6 | Verdes. We're going to talk about that. In-depth interview with Lincoln Riley, USC head coach from our very own bread and |
| 1:46.2 | Marcello. |
| 1:47.2 | So we're going to talk about that a little bit. |
| 1:48.8 | Some unfortunate news in our industry share with you. |
| 1:52.9 | And it's 100 days away from the start of the college football season for week zero, RJ, |
| 1:57.8 | 100 days until the season starts. |
| 2:00.0 | So that's be pretty fun. If you have questions or comments for the show, podcast at uscfutball.com, or email address, as always, 424-254-9141. If you want to leave us a voicemail or shoot us a text, I think we have three voicemails this week. Nice. So we'll get to all those. Not a lot of emails. we've got a lot of voicemails for a reason. Is Eddie on a series of runs? Eddie's one of them at least. At least, yeah. At least one of them. I was in Scottsdale last week, so we didn't do a show. So it was a couple from them. So hopefully it's not a double there. Apple Podcast, Spotify. Leave us a five-star rating in either one, |
| 2:35.6 | and you can leave a review. |
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