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Cover 3 College Football

Lynn Swann out, USC fights on for Clay Helton (09/11)

Cover 3 College Football

CBS Sports, College Football, Football, CFB, College Football Picks

Sports, Football

4.54.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 September 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Ryan Abraham of USCFootball.com joins Barton Simmons and Chip Patterson to discuss changes at the university and the Trojans' 2-0 start to the season. First, reacting to the news of K.J. Costello's potential return for Stanford (3:00), LSU's complaints about the visiting locker room at Texas (6:45) and Gus Malzahn's dig at Alabama and Noon kickoffs (11:00). Then, Ryan joins the show to explain the shake ups in USC's administration, including the ouster of athletic director Lynn Swann (18:25), how Graham Harrell's offense sets freshman quarterback Kedon Slovis up for success (22:45), what USC's ceiling might be in the Pac-12 this year (32:30) and whether the Trojans will take care of business at BYU in Week 3 (36:15).

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Welcome to the Cover 3 podcast with your host, Chip Patterson and Barton Simmons. It's your call for the best college football coverage.

0:49.5

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1:01.5

And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports Wednesday morning here. That's Barton Simmons. I'm Chip Patterson and we've got Ryan Abraham, USC football.com coming up here in just a little bit going into under the hood and getting a good look at the Trojans as they have.

1:20.5

They are on their way to the college football playoff and BYU is up next in the Trojans run of wins. So Barton Simmons, how are you doing right now?

1:30.5

Because we get to be home and we were discussing this right before we started taping. Everyone talks about this week.

1:36.5

It's going to be, oh, no ranked on ranked teams. Oh, look at all these points, but I look at the slate differently. I think, man, I get my eyes on...

1:48.5

I get my eyes on not fully formed teams, but we're going to get our eyes on a bunch of teams with two weeks of action, you know, biggest adjustments that any college football program makes is week one to week two.

2:00.5

So we should be seeing true identities revealed this weekend. And I'm looking forward to being able to take it all in from the home studio.

2:08.5

Yeah, I am too. And especially because, like, as you look at the statistics comprehensively for this season so far, you know, through two weeks, how pretty much everyone has got some sort of just total cupcake under their belt that they totally skews the statistics.

2:26.5

I'm looking to use South Carolina with your 79 to seven win or whatever it was last week record said record said.

2:33.5

But everyone's kind of got something like that. And now, I mean, getting into week three, we're starting to even if it's, you know,

2:44.5

I mean, I'm named New Mexico temple Maryland pin state pit Ohio State Indiana. How about Mississippi?

2:50.5

Yeah, Mississippi State Kansas State. I love this.

2:54.5

I love this. Yeah, that's that's one I'm excited for. You know, Washington state Houston. I mean, all, all these are at least games. You can just sort of tabulate as as real.

3:05.5

I mean, they're not, they're not just going and glorified scrimmage against some FCS team or or some bottom of the pack FBS team in the 120s to 130. So, look, we can start to at least

3:18.5

gardener and mine out some real valuable information.

3:22.5

Some run running through some news before we welcome in Ryan Abraham. First, we go back to Stanford speaking of USC.

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