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Lincoln Riley’s No. 15 USC Trojans look to maintain their School Soccer Playoff hopes alive as they tackle Dan Lanning’s No. 7 Oregon Geese at Autzen Stadium.
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Whereas right now’s recreation can have main on-field implications within the Large Ten, there’s additionally loads of off-field drama brewing as USC and Michigan have successfully blocked (for now) a private equity deal with UC Investments that may have influxed $2.4 billion into the convention. The deal, championed by Large Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, is now paused indefinitely.
The off-field drama is a symptom of a larger issue in the Big Ten, our Stewart Mandel writes — the convention is simply too huge for its personal good.
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John E.: Hate this recreation … my two favourite groups. Geese 44-36. Each groups can move, Lemon is unstoppable, and “it by no means rains in Autzen” at the very least not this Saturday.
The Geese’ protection has been sturdy all through this season, and that is sensible contemplating head coach Dan Lanning’s defensive background. In Oregon’s 9-1 begin, solely two opponents have scored at the very least 20 factors (Penn State with 24 and Indiana with 30).
In seven of the Geese’ different eight video games, they’ve held their opponents to 14 factors or fewer, and the opposite one (Iowa) reached 16.
That’s spectacular stuff.
Dan Lanning is 44-7 in his fourth season as Oregon’s head coach, and the Geese received double-digit video games in his first three seasons (10, 12 and 13). Oregon seems like it’s headed towards one other double-digit-win season this 12 months with a 9-1 document with two video games left (USC right now, Washington subsequent Saturday).
Lincoln Riley is 34-16 in his fourth season as the top coach at USC after going 55-10 in 5 seasons at Oklahoma.
He has 5 double-digit-win seasons as a head coach, however solely a kind of got here at USC, and that was in his first season. After ending 7-6 final 12 months, nonetheless, the Trojans have responded with an 8-2 season this 12 months.
The Trojans are 8-2 total and 6-1 within the Large Ten, and so they have been flying below the radar a bit since dropping at Notre Dame in October. The Trojans’ different loss was at Illinois, and their two losses have come by 12 whole factors.
So USC isn’t out of the Large Ten race and even the School Soccer Playoff race. If the Trojans win right now and beat UCLA subsequent week, they might have a great case for being within the Playoff for the primary time.
The Geese are 9-1 total and 6-1 within the Large Ten, with their lone loss coming to Indiana in early October. However that loss did happen at Autzen Stadium.
Oregon has responded properly since then, profitable its previous 4 video games by a mean of 23 factors. That stretch features a two-point, hard-fought win on the street towards a ranked Iowa squad.
If Oregon can win right now and beat Washington subsequent week, it’s in terrific form for a School Soccer Playoff spot.
At this time is the final full Saturday of the 2025 faculty soccer season. There are two weeks left within the common season, however the ultimate week is Thanksgiving weekend, when a lot of the schedule is break up between Friday and Saturday.
Sadly, the Week 13 slate options numerous lopsided matchups. No. 1 Ohio State, No. 4 Georgia and No. 9 Notre Dame are all favored by greater than 30 factors whereas No. 3 Texas A&M and No. 10 Alabama are taking over FCS groups.
There are just a few key matchups, although, starting with No. 15 USC going to No. 7 Oregon for a recreation that would resolve a School Soccer Playoff spot. The Geese are favored by 9.5 factors on BetMGM, exhibiting confidence stays in Oregon regardless of USC having three strong wins in a row: at Nebraska, towards Northwestern (by 21) and vs. Iowa. At 9-1, Oregon can be ok with making the CFP with a win, whereas USC has two losses and is hoping to construct its resume round a win in Eugene.
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Autzen Stadium landed at No. 10 on The Athletic’s latest college football stadium rankings, which we launched final month. Right here’s what our Cameron Teague Robinson needed to say concerning the venue:
📝 “I walked round Autzen Stadium twice after I went to go to final October — positive, I couldn’t discover the media entrance, but in addition as a result of I used to be so enthralled by the surroundings. The tailgating scene exterior is particular, and you then get inside and every part takes your breath away. From the scholars sprinting into the stadium the second the 90-minutes-until-kickoff mark hits to the sight of your entire bowl-shaped stadium filling as much as the surroundings of the timber and mountains behind it.
“There are numerous scenic stadiums, however a fall night at Autzen Stadium is without doubt one of the most lovely sights in faculty soccer. And that's to not point out how loud it’s throughout the recreation, punching properly above its 54,000-seat weight. The open-air press field made it so I might barely hear my coworker subsequent to me speak.”
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It seems like Ohio State and Indiana have accomplished sufficient to earn spots within the School Soccer Playoff. However will there be a 3rd Large Ten crew within the 12-team discipline? In that case, who will that be?
At this time's recreation in Eugene, Ore., could go an extended option to answering each of these questions. Each groups have another recreation after right now (Oregon vs. Washington and USC vs. UCLA), so, sure, there’s extra work to do.
However whichever crew wins this Large Ten showdown might take a giant step towards the Playoff.
One week after Iowa was shocked at residence by Oregon, the Hawkeyes traveled to Los Angeles and bought a present from the weather, as a rainstorm belted Southern California and threatened to restrict USC’s high-flying offense.
And it checked out first as if the mixture of the climate and Iowa’s physicality would show an excessive amount of for the Trojans to beat. USC fell behind 21-7 within the first half, the kind of lead that normally proves insurmountable towards the Hawkeyes' protection. As a substitute, nonetheless, USC completed the sport on a 19-0 run for a massive 26-21 victory. The Trojans’ much-maligned protection held agency, giving time for quarterback Jayden Maiava (23-for-32, 254 passing yards, one landing) and famous person extensive receivers Makai Lemon (10 catches, 153 receiving yards, one landing) and Ja’Kobi Lane (seven catches, 65 yards) to energy the comeback.
“Tradition win proper there, man, if there ever was one,” coach Lincoln Riley stated after the sport.
USC improved to 8-2 with the win to stay within the School Soccer Playoff race — for now.
Sandwiched between an exhilarating last-minute win at Iowa two weeks in the past and right now’s pivotal matchup towards USC was a quintessential lure recreation for Oregon — a sleepy Friday evening contest towards an unheralded Minnesota crew that entered having already clinched bowl eligibility at 6-3.
Many applications would have fallen into that lure, however not the Geese, who jumped out to a 14-0 first-quarter lead and by no means seemed again in a 42-13 drubbing. Oregon quarterback Dante Moore was correct all evening lengthy, going 27-for-30 passing with 306 yards and two touchdowns via the air. Oregon improved to 9-1 with the win and may safe Lanning’s third straight season of at the very least 10 wins with a victory tonight.
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The Trojans final performed the Geese two years in the past, within the ultimate 12 months of the Pac-12. That recreation additionally came about in Eugene, and it’s the solely earlier assembly between present head coaches Lincoln Riley of USC and Dan Lanning of Oregon.
Lanning and the Geese prevailed 36-27 due to 412 passing yards and 4 landing throws from Bo Nix, who outplayed reigning Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams (291 passing yards, one landing move) within the victory.
Not like the case with most of their new opponents within the expanded Large Ten, these two have loads of familiarity with one another due to their historical past as rivals within the outdated Pac-12.
USC leads the all-time collection towards Oregon 38-23-2, courting again to a 34-0 Geese win in 1915. Oregon has received seven of the previous 9 matchups between the 2 applications, courting again to Chip Kelly’s promotion to Geese head coach earlier than the 2009 season.
USC’s final victory over Oregon got here in 2016 as Sam Darnold led the Trojans to a 45-20 win over the Geese, who have been beginning a freshman quarterback named Justin Herbert, in Los Angeles. The Trojans final received in Eugene in 2011, a 38-35 thriller wherein Oregon missed a last-second discipline aim that may have pressured additional time.
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Autzen Stadium in Eugene, Ore., one of the crucial scenic (and, for its measurement, loudest) faculty soccer stadiums within the nation, will host tonight's recreation.
The venue, which is simply north of Oregon’s campus, opened in 1967. It has hosted Oregon Geese soccer video games ever since. Autzen at present has 54,000 seats, and each certainly one of them is predicted to be crammed right now.
USC at Oregon can be proven on CBS and streaming on Paramount+.
It’s also possible to stream the sport on Fubo (Stream Free Now).
CBS’ No. 1 faculty soccer broadcast crew, consisting of Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Gary Danielson (analyst) and Jenny Dell (sideline reporter), can be on the decision.
USC at Oregon kicks off at 3:30 p.m. ET. That’s 12:30 p.m. PT on the West Coast, native time in each Los Angeles and Eugene.
