USC football played Maryland for the very first time on Saturday, part of the new-look Big Ten football universe. The Trojans and Lincoln Riley traveled to the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, not far from the nation’s capital city in Washington, D.C. The Trojans had a chance to extend their national brand and repair their season against a not-very-good Maryland team which lost to Northwestern by 27 points one week ago. Northwestern lost to Wisconsin on Saturday, 23-3. Maryland lost 37-10 to Northwestern at home. Maryland isn’t good. This was a game USC should have been able to win without too much drama — not by 30 points, but by enough points that the final two minutes of regulation would not be tense.
USC certainly had a lot of different chances to make this a drama-free game before the final two minutes. We would need quite a lot of time to list all those moments. Yet, in almost every single one of those moments, USC failed. This is the recurring theme of an extraordinarily frustrating and failure-filled season. USC is consistently coming close to victory but is just as consistently not making the final few plays which would put the victory away. It’s Groundhog Day for USC, and after losing 29-28 to Maryland in College Park, USC fans want Lincoln Riley fired. They have had it with this coach. That doesn’t mean Riley will be fired, but it does mean the head coach is plainly failing at his job. Let’s process yet another all-too-familiar USC loss in 2024, with Trojan fans wanting Lincoln Riley gone:
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