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Lincoln Riley said so earlier in the offseason. He said it again at Big Ten media days on Tuesday. Riley believes USC football is better equipped to compete for a College Football Playoff berth.
"I do believe we're more equipped than at any point in the previous few years. That's not a hope or a wish, there’s a lot of facts to back that up," Riley said. That's strong stuff. Asserting that a belief is a fact and not merely an opinion is bold. It's a display of confidence not matched by USC's track record. Riley, though, has convinced himself everything is going in the right direction at long last, in Year 5 of his USC tenure.
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