USC football and Oklahoma football are both at rock-bottom right now, or if not, they’re very close. The Trojans and Sooners are reeling. USC lost to Maryland this past weekend. Oklahoma got drubbed at home by South Carolina. Lincoln Riley and Brent Venables are both enduring disastrous seasons. Fans at both schools are miserable. Signs of a quick turnaround don’t exist. Powerful teams in each of their conferences just registered really important victories. Oregon beat Ohio State one week ago in the Big Ten and is now No. 1 in the country. Oklahoma has watched Georgia and Tennessee win huge games to rise in the SEC.
When we consider why USC and Oklahoma are both struggling right now, it is easy to think that Lincoln Riley’s role in this scenario is connected only to the Trojans. However, there are Oklahoma fans and analysts who will tell you that even though Riley left the Sooners in 2021, his flaws and mistakes are very much responsible for what Oklahoma is enduring today. Riley’s main weaknesses have a hand in both USC’s and OU’s problems, which lays the groundwork for a very interesting conversation about both schools.
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