{"id":65707,"date":"2025-11-22T22:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65707\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T22:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T22:11:19","slug":"usc-vs-oregon-jayden-maiava-tosses-pick-ducks-lead-trojans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65707\/","title":{"rendered":"USC vs. Oregon: Jayden Maiava tosses pick, Ducks lead Trojans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Times of Troy: Why Lincoln Riley sensed a change in Trojans at halftime against Iowa <\/p>\n<p>Welcome back to the Times of Troy newsletter. Hopefully, by the time you read this, you will have finally dried off. Or maybe it\u2019s still pouring rain where you are. But whatever the weather, things are looking pretty sunny for Lincoln Riley and USC right now.<\/p>\n<p>The Trojans are now just two wins away from a trip to the College Football Playoff. But the bigger statement Saturday, while rallying in the rain to beat a team like Iowa, wasn\u2019t so much about this season, but rather the program\u2019s trajectory after next week\u2019s marquee matchup at No. 8 Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>Riley said later that he sensed this shift at halftime, just as the team\u2019s Playoff hopes were hanging by a thread. His Trojans <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/sports\/usc\/story\/2025-11-15\/usc-football-vs-iowa-recap\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">were trailing Iowa<\/a>, 21-10, once again having succumbed to the same slow start that plagued them the last two games. They\u2019d been outplayed, outworked, outsmarted. The run defense was awful. The offense was stuck in the mud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Times of Troy: Why Lincoln Riley sensed a change in Trojans at halftime against Iowa Welcome back to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65708,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[13247,48,52,51,32698,47,50,49,17677,18158,39253,545,39252,4666,39251,427,315,23138,3533,11320,72],"class_list":["post-65707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-head-coach","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-lincoln-riley","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-nebraska","tag-no","tag-only-road-victory","tag-oregon","tag-oregon-live-update","tag-riley","tag-road-warrior","tag-team","tag-time","tag-trojans","tag-usc","tag-usc-football","tag-year"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65707","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=65707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65707\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}