The USC football program got a big commitment for its 2027 recruiting class on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
Four-star cornerback Danny Lang officially committed to USC on Wednesday night. He chose the Trojans over the Oregon Ducks<\/a> and Ohio State Buckeyes<\/a>.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Lang is the ninth-best recruit in California and the No. 12 cornerback recruit in the country, per 247Sports Composite rankings<\/a>. He’s also listed as the No. 104 overall recruit in the nation.<\/p>\n This is a big win for Trojans head coach Lincoln Riley. He got one of the top recruits in California to stay home going into his fifth season as head coach.<\/p>\n Riley helped USC finish the 2025 season with a 9-4 overall record. He’s compiled a 35-18 overall record since taking the USC job ahead of the 2022 season. His best season so far with the program came in 2022 when he went 11-3.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n Before joining USC, Riley spent five seasons with Oklahoma, compiling a 55-10 overall record. He led Oklahoma to the College Football Playoff three times during his tenure in Norman.<\/p>\n He has yet to lead USC to the CFP, but he will have an opportunity to do so during the 2026 college football<\/a> season.<\/p>\n Now that Lang is in the boat, USC has the ninth-highest 2027 recruiting class in the country, per 247Sports<\/a>. Lang is one of six commits in the class, and that number figures to increase as we get closer to signing day.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n USC will open the 2026 season on Aug. 29 against San Jose State.<\/p>\n Related: Matt Leinart Makes Announcement After Rejecting USC’s Request<\/a><\/p>\n This story was originally published by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Mar 26, 2026, where it first appeared in the College Football<\/a> section. Add Athlon Sports as a Preferred Source by clicking here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The USC football program got a big commitment for its 2027 recruiting class on Wednesday night. Four-star cornerback…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":835727,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[9232,1443,332,115182,7,115183,6106,49,48,69,1135,575,13394,8937],"class_list":["post-835726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-247sports-composite-rankings","tag-california","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-danny-lang","tag-football","tag-lang","tag-lincoln-riley","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-ohio-state-buckeyes","tag-oklahoma","tag-oregon-ducks","tag-san-jose-state","tag-usc-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116298016586445477","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835726","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=835726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/835726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/835727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=835726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=835726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=835726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}