{"id":314455,"date":"2025-11-26T08:47:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314455\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T08:47:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T08:47:08","slug":"lincoln-riley-reaffirms-commitment-to-remaining-at-usc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/314455\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Riley reaffirms commitment to remaining at USC"},"content":{"rendered":"

USC<\/a> coach Lincoln Riley reaffirmed his commitment to the program Tuesday, saying he plans to remain at the helm of the Trojans next season.<\/p>\n

“Oh yeah, 100%,” Riley said after USC’s practice. “Like I said before, I’m right where I’m supposed to be.”<\/p>\n

“I think [about] nothing other than what we’re building, literally,” he added, shooting a glance toward the $200 million football facility USC is set to open next summer. “I love being here.”<\/p>\n

As college football prepares for a busy coaching carousel that features vacancies at LSU<\/a>, Penn State<\/a> and Florida<\/a>, among others, Riley’s name has not been at the forefront of discussions, but it has come up. So far, however, Riley has shot down any speculation about a potential departure.<\/p>\n

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Two weeks ago, after USC beat Northwestern<\/a>, Riley was asked about the idea of him being a candidate for open jobs.<\/p>\n

“You guys know what I sacrificed to be here,” Riley said. “I’m where I need to be.”<\/p>\n

In 2021, Riley shocked college football by leaving the head coaching job at Oklahoma<\/a> for USC. Since his arrival in Los Angeles, Riley has gone 34-17.<\/p>\n

After an 11-3 record in his first season in 2022, USC went 8-5 and then 7-6. This season, Riley’s team was 8-2 before a 42-27 loss Saturday to Oregon<\/a>, No. 6 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings<\/a>, effectively eliminated the No. 17 Trojans from playoff contention.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Riley described the USC season as “a very good year — right on the verge of being a great year, but a very good year.”<\/p>\n

USC plays UCLA<\/a> in its regular-season finale Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"USC coach Lincoln Riley reaffirmed his commitment to the program Tuesday, saying he plans to remain at the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":314456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[399,398,396,397,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-314455","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-ncaafootball","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314455","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=314455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/314456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}