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Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Tunnel Vision: Breaking down the good and bad from USC's 59-20 victory over Georgia Southern

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

On this latest edition of Tunnel Vision USCFootball.com's Ryan Abraham, Shotgun Spratling and intern Riley Sager are back in studio discussing the Trojans 39-point victory over Clay Helton's Georgia Southern Eagles. For the second straight week USC was able to blowout an overmatched opponent, easily covering the massive spreads and allowing backups to come into the game and gain invaluable experience. Following along on USCFootball.com's message board The Peristyle during the game, it was apparent that Trojan fans were expecting perfection against former USC head coach Clay Helton. The Trojans were never in danger of losing the game, were up by multiple touchdowns most of the evening and pretty much did whatever they wanted when they had the ball, but the P was acting like the sky was falling and this team would never win another football game. Ryan, Shotgun and Riley were all in the Coliseum on Saturday and give their thoughts on what impressed them from the Trojans, including a record-setting 755 yards of offense, and what concerns them including some defensive breakdowns that kept the game closer than expected early on. This is the podcast version of our Tunnel Vision video show. ⁠⁠⁠CLICK HERE for 60% OFF an annual VIP membership to USCFootball.com!⁠⁠⁠⁠  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 Trojan football team.  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

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, no one covers the Trojans

0:26.1

like the Peristyle podcast.

0:28.7

And now, here's the host of the Paristyle podcast, USCFootball.com publisher, Brian Abraham.

0:39.4

Welcome to Tunnel Vision.

0:41.5

I'm Riley Sager, alongside Ryan Abraham and shotgun spratling.

0:44.8

We are breaking down.

0:46.3

USC's 59 to 20 win yesterday.

0:50.4

How are you doing, guys?

0:51.9

Doing all right.

0:52.5

Yeah, we got shotgun in studio for one more show. Sorry, I just ate a little, what do we have, Panxpress. My mouth's like, blah, blah, blah, yeah, no, doing good. We were all in the Coliseum. USC won by 39 points. If you read the P shotgun, they lost. I know better. Yeah. USC lost.

1:10.9

They're never going to win another game. So we'll get into that. My fortune was share joy. So I'm going to try to share some joy. That's not much of a fortune, as Riley pointed out. But yeah, USC smoked them. And Clay Alton didn't get to come back and have a triumphant return or anything. But Yeah, do it all right. How about you?

1:27.9

Hanging in there. Just about finished rewatching the game. Spend probably three or three and a half hours in the first quarter. Got really locked in, seeing a bunch of different things. But, you know, making it all the way through and, you know, get a chance to see some of the backups and stuff. But overall, positive. I mean, when you win by 39, I think that's still a positive.

1:47.3

I think one of the backups and stuff. But overall, positive. I mean, when you win by 39, I think that's still a positive. I think one of the big takeaways just kind of college football in general yesterday is, like, I think you're seeing a bigger and bigger divide between the haves and hafnots, right? So, you know, the group of fives just aren't going to be able to compete. So just take care of business. Now, are there things you want to clean up?

2:02.0

And I thought it was important that Lincoln Riley said in the press conference. He didn't say, yeah, this great win. We're just so happy to get what we want to know about what. He said, no, we have to play to our standard. You know, we got to see, are we at our best? And they weren't. but you still won by 39 points.

2:16.9

Yeah.

2:17.2

The spread was 28.5.

2:19.0

You know, they covered that.

2:20.3

You took care of business. There was, you know, maybe after the first drive when, you know, George Southern takes a lead. After that, there weren't really any like hold your breath moments. No. That Clay Hilton was going to, you know, hurt you again, USC fans. It wasn't going to happen. So they took care of business, and, yeah, they got to clean some stuff up. We'd like to see a little bit more action in the front seven, a little bit more, you know, from the defense tackles, didn't see too much, you know, a place made from them. It was great to see Jakeem Stewart out there. Great to see some of the, great to see the wide receivers, actually score a touchdown. after the first week, all the scoring was going on they were left out so they figured they weren't left out you know what we'll do it we'll do it ourselves this time one-handed run it 60 yards run a 70 yards whatever it takes we'll do it ourselves yeah but they were spectacular and you know now is when the the trying starts hard, harder play. The step-ups continue next week when they go on the road. That's a scary thought I know for USC in the big team. Changing time zone. Yeah, it's going to be scary. This was supposed to be hello, by the way. Not like full analysis. That's what I do. You know this. You know this. Well, we're going to break all that down. But if you're just now tuning in, thank you for listening. We're live on YouTube and Facebook. If you want to give us a call, 412, my bad. 5124 tunnel. We want to hear from you. Talk to you live. Also drop some comments in the YouTube section and Facebook. We'll try to get to those and start any questions you may have for us. Yeah, that's great. As you can tell, we're ready. 5-1-2-4 tunnel, for sure. I got the monitoring. The lines are open, as they used to say, back in the radio days. And I'm glad we're working because there was a little technical stuff going on in the beginning.

3:59.0

So hopefully the comments are they coming up, Riley? Like that looks like comments. We have a couple. Yeah, just saying hi. All right, perfect. Try to throw one up the screen just to make sure it works. I haven't, I haven't played with that yet. So we're doing this on the fly. But yes. Oh, look at that.

4:12.5

Boom.

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