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

We knew there were a lot of unknown variables that would determine where USC was headed. But Lincoln Riley has been the biggest variable.

In another far-flung college town, at the end of a nightmarish month spent crisscrossing the country finding new ways to unravel, Lincoln Riley sat behind a plastic folding table with