{"id":506993,"date":"2026-10-24T23:22:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-24T23:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506993\/"},"modified":"2026-10-24T23:22:18","modified_gmt":"2026-10-24T23:22:18","slug":"usc-football-vs-wisconsin-live-updates-start-time-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/506993\/","title":{"rendered":"USC football vs. Wisconsin: Live updates, start time, watch"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was a potential nightmare scenario. Starting left tackle Elijah Paige<\/a> had been scratched in pregame warm-ups at Penn State. And in his place stepped a true freshman in his first start at USC<\/a>, forced to find his way in a White Out, surrounded by a hostile crowd of 114,000 strong.<\/p>\n

But when Vlad Dyakonov<\/a> learned he was stepping in, a couple of hours ahead of kickoff, his coaches were surprised by how little it seemed to faze him.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome of us [coaches] were like, \u2018Does he realize what he\u2019s getting himself into?\u2019\u201d coach Lincoln Riley<\/a> said, with a grin. \u201cHe didn\u2019t flinch, man.\u201d<\/p>\n

You could say the same, generally, about USC\u2019s entire front through the first half of this season. After years of shallow depth, unfortunate injuries, and transfer misfires at the position, USC\u2019s offensive line has been the stabilizing force propelling its high-powered attack to a 6-1 record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was a potential nightmare scenario. Starting left tackle Elijah Paige had been scratched in pregame warm-ups at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":506994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[11155,6308,16945,34423,48,52,51,47,50,49,39393,68553,8937,4666,427,315,780,23138,11320,1543,1539],"class_list":["post-506993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-defense","tag-field","tag-fourth-quarter","tag-king-miller","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-maiava","tag-nittany-lions","tag-penn-state","tag-riley","tag-team","tag-time","tag-touchdown","tag-trojans","tag-usc-football","tag-win","tag-yard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506993","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=506993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/506994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}