Tunnel Vision: Previewing USC's toughest test of the season, a road trip to No. 23 Illinois

Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

Ryan Abraham - USCFootball,com publisher

Sports, Basketball, Football

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

In this special edition of Tunnel Vision hosts Ryan Abraham and Connor Morrissette (aka "Triple Double") and intern India Otto are back in studio taking a detailed look at USC's next opponent, the Illinois Fighting Illini. The Trojans have started out 2-0 in Big Ten play, with a road win against Purdue and a home victory against Michigan State. Now the task at hand becomes more difficult, playing an ranked Illinois squad that was just humiliated on the road by Indiana. The Illini will do everything it their power to bounce back and use the game against the Trojans as their "get right" game, but will Jayden Maiava and company simply be too much for the Illini? USC's offense has been clicking with an explosive passing attack and relentless ground game and it will try and exploit an Illinois defense that has been decimated by injuries in the secondary. The Trojans have only punted four times all season and with Maiava taking care of the football, the points have been coming fast and furious. Defensively no program has sacked the quarterback more than the Trojans and no Power Four school has given up as many sacks as the Illini. If the USC pass rush can get home, it should go a long way to picking up a win in Champaign. ⁠⁠This is the podcast version of our Tunnel Vision video show. ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CLICK HERE for 30% 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,
0:24.1	no one covers the Trojans like the Peristyle podcast.
0:28.7	And now, here's the host of the Paristyle podcast,
0:32.1	USCFootball.com publisher, Brian Abraham.
0:38.4	Hello, Trojan fans. Welcome to another edition of Tunnel Vision. I am your host, India Auto,
0:46.5	aka Automatic, here alongside Triple Double, Connor Morissette and Bossman himself, Ryan
0:53.2	Abraham.
0:54.9	Welcome, guys.
0:56.7	We have another special show for you guys.
1:04.4	We did a really, really big in-depth analysis on USC's game versus Illinois on Saturday.
1:06.7	We had Jeremy Warner come on.
1:10.1	So guys, take a look at the Peristyle podcast that was on yesterday.
1:28.3	But we will continue to do an in-depth dive of Illinois. We are taking live callers today. The number to call is 512 for tunnel. And as always, put your questions, comments, concerns in the chat. And I'll be sure to star them. and we're live on YouTube and Facebook. So guys,
1:32.9	how are you doing? We're good. Nailed it. India, nice job. Yeah, quite the intro. Great job.
1:37.4	Yeah, I love it. She's trying to steal my hello Trojan fans. We're going to go over here. It's epic. It's iconic. No, you got it. That's great. Yeah, we should, we did, yesterday we had
1:43.0	Jeremy Werner from the Aligni, not illustrator,
1:48.7	Aligni inquire, I keep getting that wrong, my apologies, but the University of Illinois 247 site,
1:55.1	and he did a great job.
1:56.9	We talked a lot about Illinois.
1:58.0	We'll keep going.
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