Against a Utah team that handed them their only loss, the Trojans look to their first-year coach who went 4-0 at Oklahoma in rematches for the Big 12 title
LOS ANGELES — Four times in his tenure as head coach at Oklahoma, Lincoln Riley played in the Big 12 championship game. By nature of the Big 12’s round-robin schedule, each title bout was a rematch. Two times, it was against a team the Sooners beat in season, twice it was against an opponent that beat Oklahoma.It’s this type of experience that led USC to hire Riley a year ago.
After losing to Texas in 2018, the Sooners made a pointed effort to take away the Longhorns’ run game in the title-game rematch. They limited Texas to 2.8 yards per carry on the way to a 39-27 win. A handful of USC players have championship game experience from the 2020 season, when a 5-0 Trojan team’s fourth-quarter comeback fell short in a seven-point loss to Oregon. Those players had to watch the Ducks celebrate on the Coliseum field.
And the team has been overwhelmingly successful on Saturdays this season. Except that one game against Utah in October.
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