Playoffs or bust? Our 2026 USC football schedule overview
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
USCFootball.com - Ryan Abraham, 247Sports, USC, USC Trojans, USC football, College Football
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 88 minutes
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Summary
In this edition of the Peristyle Podcast hosts Ryan Abraham and RJ Abeytia are back in studio taking a look at the challenging 2026 USC football schedule to see what it will take for this Trojan squad to make the College Football Playoffs for the very first time. Head coach Lincoln Riley is confident he has the right team in place to make a championship run, and we take a high-level look at the schedule with notes on each of USC's opponents.
With the Fighting Irish absent, the path to the playoffs should be easier, but USC is still facing off against three of the projected top-5 teams in the country and will need to win at least one of those games to make the postseason tournament. Defending national champion Indiana will be a tough road test and uber-talented Oregon and Ohio State both visit the Coliseum. If the Trojans can come out on top of at least one of the big three and then take care of business in the rest of the games, a berth in the playoffs would be almost guaranteed.
The guys also talk about information on USC football tickets for the 2026 season, the news coming out of SEC spring meetings including the standoff with the Big Ten on expanding the college football playoffs plus listener questions.
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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 Parasstyle 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. |
| 0:37.1 | Ho! Trojan fans. |
| 0:41.9 | Welcome to the Barstile podcast on a, what's today? |
| 0:45.6 | Tuesday on a Tuesday. |
| 0:46.7 | I don't even know what day it is. |
| 0:48.2 | Yeah, we're here in studio again. |
| 0:50.8 | I'm your host, Ryan Abraham, Publisher of uscfootball.com. |
| 0:54.0 | We are joined by RJ Abadia, the real deal. He's here in studio with us. We're doing an afternoon one. I'm going to do a little traveling later this week. So we wanted to get India in. We'll get her in next week. We'll do an evening show because India's got a real job now. So we have to get, for her, we have to do it evening. |
| 1:11.6 | So we'll get that evening one. RJ couldn't do tonight. She does a lot of adulting. She's doing way more adulting than we're used to on this on our staff. So just adjustments. What do you do? The adjustments of like a college athlete to get into the real world. It is funny. You talk to some of them. it's like, oh, I have to book my own dentist appointment. |
| 1:28.8 | Like all these things that you're some of them. It's like, oh, I have to book my own dentist appointment. |
| 1:28.8 | Like all these things that you're just like, that they're like, yeah, you got to do that as a person now. Because as a student athlete, they take care of a lot of your stuff. And then you become going to go on the real world and you have to take care of a lot of that. So India's doing it. She's doing a great job, and we'll try to get her on next week. |
| 1:43.3 | If you have questions or comments for the show, drop us an email. |
| 1:46.3 | It's really simple. |
| 1:47.1 | Podcast at USA. doing a great job and we'll try to get her on next week. If you have questions or comments for the show, drop us an email. |
| 1:46.3 | It's really simple. |
| 1:47.1 | Podcast at USC Football.com or you can call or text us. |
| 1:51.7 | 424-254-9141 is the number. |
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