{"id":453905,"date":"2026-09-05T00:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453905\/"},"modified":"2026-09-05T00:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-05T00:12:09","slug":"usc-football-vs-fresno-state-live-updates-start-time-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/453905\/","title":{"rendered":"USC football vs. Fresno State: Live updates, start time, watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

After sparse attendance during USC\u2019s season-opening win over San Jos\u00e9 State<\/a> turned the Trojans into a national punchline during the weekend<\/a>, USC coach Lincoln Riley<\/a> responded Tuesday, dismissing what he called a \u201cfalse narrative\u201d being spread about the program in recent days.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that comes from a lot of people who don\u2019t follow our program, most of those who have never stepped foot in the Coliseum,\u201d Riley said. \u201cThe reality is, during my years here, attendance has gone up every single year. As has our play in the Coliseum, including running the table last year in front of a lot of epic atmospheres. And I expect that to happen again this year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Average attendance for USC football games at the Coliseum actually dropped from the 2024 to the 2025 season, from an average of 71,571 to 67,783. But the 2025 season also featured fewer marquee home matchups, plus one game soaked by heavy rain (Iowa), and it was still the second-best average attendance of Riley\u2019s four seasons as coach.<\/p>\n

Saturday, though, marked the smallest home crowd at USC since late in the 2018 season, when the Trojans had their worst finish for the program in a quarter century, under former coach Clay Helton<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After sparse attendance during USC\u2019s season-opening win over San Jos\u00e9 State turned the Trojans into a national punchline…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":453906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11155,423,72208,177252,48,52,51,32698,47,50,49,77144,1417,996,16948,315,177251,780,56427,23138,3533],"class_list":["post-453905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-defense","tag-game","tag-gary-patterson","tag-ho-hum-debut","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lincoln-riley","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-noon-saturday","tag-point","tag-san-jose-state","tag-short-pass","tag-time","tag-total-yard","tag-touchdown","tag-trent-mosley","tag-trojans","tag-usc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453905","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/453906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}