A new era of Big Ten football kicked off Wednesday when first-year UCLA coach DeShaun Foster and Southern California coach Lincoln Riley took the podium inside Lucas Oil Stadium. Both stepped up to the microphone as their school fight songs played.
Southern California head coach Lincoln Riley talks with reporters during an NCAA college football news conference at the Big Ten Conference media days at Lucas Oil Stadium, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Indianapolis. Southern California head coach Lincoln Riley talks with reporters during an NCAA college football news conference at the Big Ten Conference media days at Lucas Oil Stadium, Wednesday, July 24, 2024, in Indianapolis.
Sure, it’s been two years since the announcement that USC and UCLA would join the 14-team league. They, like Oregon and Washington, will become official Big Ten schools next week. The Ducks and Huskies are scheduled to take questions Thursday in Indy as the grand preseason kickoff wraps up. “Those challenges are magnified for Penn State, being one of the most Northeast schools without an international airport,” he said. “So we spent a ton of time talking to NFL organizations, as well as college programs that have done East Coast to West Coast travel during the season, to find what are the best practices for that.
“Studying the defenses hasn’t been difficult, but it terms of personnel grouping, there’s a lot of teams that use two and three tight ends at any given moment,” Moss said. “So some of the formation tape and stuff like that doesn’t necessarily line up with what we’re doing.”
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