{"id":81534,"date":"2025-05-27T00:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/81534\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T00:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T00:55:09","slug":"lincoln-riley-hits-cfb-criticism-with-greatest-sport-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/81534\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Riley hits CFB criticism with ‘greatest sport’ take"},"content":{"rendered":"

College football looks a lot different than it did just a few years ago. There are different conferences, a different College Football Playoff format and players earning NIL money. There are things that have made positive impacts on the game, but there are also a lot of things that fans don’t like. Still, USC football<\/a> head coach Lincoln Riley<\/a> isn’t worried about the criticism. He doesn’t think that there is anything that compares to college football.<\/p>\n

Lincoln Riley talked about<\/a> the current state of college football on a recent episode of\u00a0Always College Football,\u00a0and he isn’t concerned about the recent changes and the current worries. This is the start of something new for the sport, and it might lead to new things that fans come to love.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt really doesn\u2019t,\u201d Riley said. \u201cIf you love college football, then are you gonna scroll on your TV past USC-Ohio State? No, you\u2019re not. All of these things have to start somewhere.\u201d<\/p>\n

Riley understands that the change is difficult for some fans to see, but he is focusing on the positives that he has seen.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo, is there some changes that I understand people are having a hard time coming to grips with? Sure. Again, I get it. But the alternative is pretty darn good,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt\u2019s creating some incredible matchups and seeing how the Playoff played out this year, and, obviously, that\u2019s going to continue to evolve and just get I think better.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the end of the day, there are a lot of sports that are not in as good of a position as college football, and it doesn’t seem like that is going to change.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur sport\u2019s in a great place, and I think anybody that thinks anything other than that \u2014 I know there\u2019s a lot going on with scheduling,\u201d Riley added. \u201cI know everybody\u2019s got an opinion on NIL, rev share, and the settlement. I get it. There\u2019s all that stuff. Listen, we just sat through 10 days of Big Ten meetings where that\u2019s all we\u2019re listening to, but despite all that, we still have one of the greatest products in the greatest sport in the world. Let\u2019s don\u2019t forget that.\u201d<\/p>\n

With all the changes that the USC football team<\/a> has been through with its move to the Big Ten, it would be completely reasonable for Lincoln Riley to have some complaints<\/a>. The Trojans are on the opposite side of the country compared to the rest of their conference. Riley is happy with what the change is doing for the sport, however.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"College football looks a lot different than it did just a few years ago. There are different conferences,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81535,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,6106,49,48,8937],"class_list":{"0":"post-81534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-lincoln-riley","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-football","12":"tag-usc-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114577075583792531","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}