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USA Today
02-07-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
USC not ranked among top 25 teams in EA Sports College Football 26
The start of the 2025 college football season continues to draw closer and closer. One sign that the season is just around the corner is the upcoming release of EA Sports College Football 26. After the popular college football video game franchise returned from a decade-long hiatus last year, the revamped version is back for round two this year, with release set for next week. With release date drawing closer and closer, last week, EA released the top 25 teams in the game. Coming off of a 7-6 season, USC did not make the cut. The Trojans do have one of the top 25 offenses in the game. USC has an 85 ranked offense, tied with seven other teams for 19th. In terms of the top 25 overall teams, however, the Trojans are on the outside looking in. Based on this, it seems as though EA Sports believes that defense will hold USC back this season. It will be up to Lincoln Riley and D'Anton Lynn to prove them wrong on the field.
USA Today
05-06-2025
- Sport
- USA Today
USC not ranked in top 20 of ESPN's preseason FPI
USC not ranked in top 20 of ESPN's preseason FPI The start of the 2025 college football season continues to draw closer. This week, we got another sign that kickoff is just around the corner with the release of ESPN's annual preseason Football Power Index (FPI) rankings. Coming off of a 7-6 season last year, USC did not make the top 20 of the rankings. Perhaps more interesting, however, was the conference makeup of the list. Of ESPN's top 20 teams, 11 are from the SEC, compared to just four from the Big Ten. Given ESPN's well-established relationship with the SEC, many fan bases may very well accuse the FPI rankings of being biased towards the conference. This group includes USC fans, who certainly feel as though there are not 11 SEC teams better than the Trojans. ESPN's FPI did have USC as a top-20 team on offense, with the Trojans tied with Tennessee at No. 12. It seems as though the computers have more faith in Lincoln Riley's offense than they do in D'Anton Lynn's defense. Regardless, it is clear that ESPN's FPI is not particularly high on USC heading into this fall. It will be up to the Trojans to try and use this as motivation and prove their doubters wrong on the field.
