Trojans 企て，努力，提案 Pac-12 別れの（言葉，会） in Holiday Bowl against No. 16 Louisville
SAN DIEGO (AP) - The 速く changing college football landscape 供給するd a moment of levity between Holiday Bowl coaches Jeff Brohm of the No. 16 Louisville 枢機けい／主要なs and Lincoln Riley of the staggering and 使い果たすd Southern California Trojans.
Brohm´s 枢機けい／主要なs (10-3) are making a rare West Coast trip for Wednesday night´s game at Petco Park, the downtown home of baseball´s Padres. However, starting next year, 飛行機で行くing to California won´t be so unusual. One of the 枢機けい／主要なs´ 2024 road trips will be to play Stanford, which will be in its first season in the ACC, along with California.
"明白に there´s a lot of change in college football in that regard, but for us I think it will be a 広大な／多数の／重要な mix, two teams from out west that will 供給する some excitement and 利益／興味 across the country," Brohm said.
To which Riley quipped: "We´ll pass each other in the 空気／公表する."
The Holiday Bowl will be the last Pac-12 football game for the Trojans (7-5). They´ll begin play in the Big Ten next season, along with fellow Pac-12 defectors UCLA, Washington and Oregon. It was USC and UCLA´s 告示 in 2023 that they were leaving for the Big Ten that was the beginning of the end of the "会議／協議会 of 支持する／優勝者s."
The Holiday Bowl also illustrates how rosters are 劇的な 影響する／感情d by 非常に／多数の players from both teams 選ぶing out to 準備する for the NFL 草案 or entering the 移転 portal.
A marquee player who will be 行方不明の is USC quarterback Caleb Williams, the 2022 Heisma n トロフィー 勝利者 and presumptive No. 1 全体にわたる 選ぶ in next spring´s NFL 草案 who has 選ぶd out.
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Other Trojans who have 選ぶd out are 主要な rusher MarShawn Lloyd and Brendan Rice, the son of Hall of Famer Jerry Rice, who led USC with 12 touchdown catches. Louisville will be 行方不明の Jawha Jordan, a 1,000-yard rusher, and 主要な receiver Jamari Thrash, both of whom have 宣言するd for the 草案.
QB DISPARITY
USC redshirt sophomore quarterback Miller Moss will 取って代わる Williams and make his first college start. He has played in 11 games during the past three seasons, going 43 of 59 for 542 yards and three touchdowns, with no interceptions. His longest pass is a 71-yard TD pass to Duce Robinson against Nevada this season.
The 枢機けい／主要なs will 反対する with experienced 退役軍人 Jack Plummer, a 卒業生（する） 上級の who will be making his 39th career start. In his first year with Louisville, he 完全にするd 235 of 370 passes for 3,063 yards and 21 touchdowns, with 12 interceptions. He also played at Cal and Purdue.
EGGNOG BATH
Either Brohm or Riley will be getting an eggnog bath - nog on the noggin - instead of a Gatorade にわか雨 as the winning coach. Riley would no 疑問 welcome that after a disappointing season that began with 国家の 肩書を与える hopes but ended with three straight losses and just one 勝利，勝つ in the final six games. Brohm would welcome it, too, to cap a season that saw the 枢機けい／主要なs play in their first ACC 選手権 game, albeit a 16-6 loss to Florida 明言する／公表する.
A SUPER CHARGER
Brohm 調印するd with the San Diego Chargers as an undrafted 解放する／自由な スパイ／執行官 in 1994 and was the third-string quarterback. He didn't take a snap as the Bolts made it to their only 最高の Bowl, a 49-26 loss to San Francisco.
"I have very fond memories because we were able to go to the 最高の Bowl that year, I didn't have to play a 負かす／撃墜する during the 正規の／正選手 season, so I didn't get 攻撃する，衝突する, and I collected a paycheck," Brohm said. "We had some 広大な／多数の／重要な players, we had a 広大な／多数の／重要な run and it was a lot of fun."
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