USC 2026 schedule release plus Gary Patterson introductory press conference
Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion
USCFootball.com - Ryan Abraham, 247Sports, USC, USC Trojans, USC football, College Football
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🗓️ 29 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
In this edition of the Peristyle Podcast hosts Ryan Abraham and Connor Morrissette (aka "Triple-Double") return to discuss two major topics for the Trojan football team this off-season, the official hiring of former TCU head coach Gary Patterson as USC's new defensive coordinator and his introductory press conference and the official 2026 Big Ten schedule release.
The guys start off talking about the Patterson presser where the future college football Hall of Famer met with the USC media for the first time, talking about his time away from the game, defensive philosophies and why now was the right time to come to Los Angeles and run the Trojans defense.
Afterwards Ryan and Connor turn to the Big Ten schedule release and what they think of how USC's slate of games stacks up. We still do not know the Trojans week zero out of conference opponent, but we do know where the Trojans bye weeks are slated and when and where the Big Ten games will occur. SC starts conference play with a road trip to Rutgers before hosting the Pacific Northwest schools back-to-back before another East Coast road trip to Penn State. At Wisconsin and Ohio State in the Coliseum are sandwiched by bye weekends and the schedule finishes up at national champion Indiana, Maryland at home and UCLA in the Rose Bowl.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Trojan fans, it's time to get into the huddle with the Parastile podcast. |
| 0:11.0 | Since 2008, the Parasstyle podcast has been your ticket for year-round coverage of the USC football program. |
| 0:20.0 | 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, Brian Abraham. |
| 0:38.4 | Oh, Trojan fans, welcome to another episode of the Peristyle podcast. |
| 0:46.9 | I'm your host, Ryan Abraham, joined in studio by my buddy, my pal, my friend, my fellow, |
| 1:11.3 | Massachusetts person. Connor Morissette, call him triple double. What's up, Connor? How you doing, man? Doing well, Ryan. Good to be here. We got a lot to talk to even though, or talk about, even though it's the end of January. Football season just ended, but as we know, it never really ends around here, right? It does not end. |
| 1:13.7 | He's got the crop haircut a little bit, though. |
| 1:16.0 | I got a haircut, but I didn't get cropped. |
| 1:18.3 | I didn't go, like, military, man. |
| 1:19.8 | But good stuff. |
| 1:22.5 | Yeah, that's the first time I could do like the Hello Trojan fans for a while. |
| 1:23.5 | I've been a little under the weather. |
| 1:25.2 | Last time, a couple times I tried it. |
| 1:27.6 | It didn't work out very well. But this should be a very fun show. We're doing an evening show because earlier today, we got to talk with USC's newest |
| 1:32.8 | hire, the defensive coordinator, Gary Patterson, for about 40 minutes. It was crazy. A really long |
| 1:39.7 | press conference. It wasn't live. It's up on YouTube now on our YouTube channel at Inside Troy. |
| 1:44.4 | If you want to check out the entire press conference, we recorded it, put it up there for you. |
| 1:48.6 | I think the audio sounds good. We had a special microphone for it. So hopefully that works out well |
| 1:53.4 | for you. But we're going to talk about everything that we heard from that. Also, the Big Ten schedule |
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