Peristyle Podcast - USC Trojan Football Discussion

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Ranking USCFootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans of 2025, 1-10 Aug 01, 2025

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Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino come together for the final installment of a three-part special behind-the-scenes series of the Helium Boys Podcast. The Helium Boys work through the process of compiling and debating the top 10 spots for the initial summer ranking of USCFootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans' list for the 2025 season.

For the sixth year in a row, the USCFootball.com staff is counting down the Top 30 Most Important Trojans in a series of offseason articles leading up to the kickoff of fall camp. The series is based off our staff's guesses on the development of returners as well as the value of newcomers as the Trojans' roster comes together after another offseason of turnover under head coach Lincoln Riley.

Each USCFootball.com staff member submits his own list of whom he believes will be the most important Trojans. Considerations for the rankings take in a wide range of factors including positional depth, 2024 stats, overall talent, departures from the previous season, projected development and expectations. The only guidance we try to follow is that the most important factor for placement is if this particular player was lost for the season, how detrimental would it be to the team and the overall success of the season. The individual lists are submitted and compiled before Shotgun and Chris come together to sift through the information, debate and assemble the official USCFootball.com rankings.

In this podcast, the Helium Boys give you a peek behind the curtain, allowing you to listen in on the final third of the rankings discussion as they debate and settle on the initial summer preseason rankings for the top 10, including a spirited back and forth on the top three spots and who should be the No. 1 Most Important Trojan for 2025.

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Trojan fall camp kicks off plus highlights from USC's massive media day Jul 31, 2025

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In this edition of the Peristyle Podcast hosts Ryan Abraham and Connor Morrissette (aka "Triple Double") are back in studio discussing the long awaited start of USC fall camp, the unofficial kickoff to the 2025 college football season. The Trojans held practice No. 1 on Wednesday in the shadow of the construction site of the massive new Bloom Center that is still set to open in 2026.

The guys start off the show talking about all of the players and assistant coaches they heard from on Monday at USC's media day, with 12 coaches and 40 players that were made available for interviews with the press. We have posted hours and hours of video from the event and Ryan and Connor try to summarize the highlights of the event.

The crew also gives their thoughts on what they saw and heard from day one of training camp, with an extended viewing period of stretching and individual drills and their first look at new strength and conditioning coach Trumain Carroll.

After practice we heard from head coach Lincoln Riley, getting updates on the overall health of the team and how day one went, plus Trumain Carroll to get a feel for his approach to strength and conditioning.

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Helium Boys Podcast: USC opens fall camp after week of media days Jul 30, 2025

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Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino are backbehind the microphones for another edition of the Helium Boys Podcast to break down and react to USC's Big Ten Media Days appearance in Las Vegas as well as the Trojans' football media day at Heritage Hall and the impending start of fall camp for the 2025 season.

The duo talk about their takeaways and impressions from listening to and talking with USC head coach Lincoln Riley, offensive lineman Elijah Paige, receiver Makai Lemon and safety Kamari Ramsey in Vegas at the Big Ten Media Days as well as what they learned from news and notes to insights on some position battles during USC's football media day held on campus.

The episode opens with the 'Two-Minute Drill' where Shotgun discusses the left guard elephant in the room while Chris talks about his Vegas experience for Big Ten Media Days. The Helium Boys then spend the first half of the show breaking down the news, notes and takeaways from the two media days.

After a break, the podcast duo discusses players they are excited to see at USC's fall camp, including their picks for a breakout player during camp. They also discuss some of the players that fans have clamored for to move up or down in the Top 30 Most Important Trojans countdown and answer your mailbag questions discussing DJ Wingfield, the offensive line group, Elijah Newby, Trumain Carroll and more. Shotgun Spratling is then put through a blind ranking of types of bread to close out the show.

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Chatting with head coach Lincoln Riley and the USC players at Big Ten Media Days Jul 26, 2025

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In this edition of the Peristyle Podcast host Ryan Abraham puts together four separate interviews he and the USCFootball.com team conducted in Las Vegas during Big Ten Media Days. The team chatted with head coach Lincoln Riley, wide receiver Makai Lemon, safety Kamari Ramsey and offensive tackle Elijah Paige and you will hear all of those interviews back to back to back in this episode of the podcast.

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Tunnel Vision: Live from Las Vegas for Big Ten Media Days Jul 24, 2025

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On this latest edition of Tunnel Vision USCFootball.com's Ryan Abraham, Connor Morrissette (aka "Triple-double") and Chris Trevino are on location in Las Vegas reporting on all the happenings from Big Ten Media Days.

All of the Big Ten media have gathered at the Mandalay Bay Resort for the unofficial kickoff to the college football season, with the head coaches and three players from each of the Big Ten college football programs on hand, talking about all of the optimism heading into the new season.

The guys will talk about what they have heard so far from commissioner Tony Petitti and some of the other programs on USC's schedule and what they expect to hear from head coach Lincoln Riley and the three Trojan player representatives, left tackle Elijah Paige, wide receiver Makai Lemon and safety Kamari Ramsey.

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Ranking USCFootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans of 2025, 11-20 Jul 21, 2025

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Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino are back together for a special behind-the-scenes edition of the Helium Boys Podcast. The Helium Boys work through the process of compiling and debating spots No. 11 through 20 for the initial summer ranking of USCFootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans' list for the 2025 season.

In this podcast, the Helium Boys give you a peek behind the curtain, allowing you to listen in on the second third of the rankings discussion as they debate and settle on the initial summer preseason rankings for No. 11 through No. 20, which may be the most difficult in determining because these are often players we think have a lot of potential, but haven't always reached the top end of that potential.

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Tunnel Vision - Get to know USC redshirt junior defensive tackle Devan Thompkins Jul 21, 2025

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In this special edition of Tunnel Vision hosts Ryan Abraham and new intern India Otto are in studio and joined remotely by Trojan fourth year defensive lineman Devan Thompkins who came to USC in the class of 2024 out of Edison High School in Stockton.

Thanks to House of Victory, the 6-foot-5, 293 pound defensive tackle from Northern California joins the show to talk about his journey to USC, how he has built up his body over his college career and what has changed working with new strength coach Trumain Carroll, switching from basketball to football, what he learned from playing in all 13 games last season and how he expects to build on that during the 2025 season.

New defensive coordinator D'Anton Lynn improved the Trojans on that side of the ball, but USC had limitations on the defensive line. Expectations are high with bigger, stronger bodies along the front seven including players like Thompkins who are expected to make bigger contributions.

The interview with Thompkins was conducted in conjunction with House of Victory, an alumni-backed nonprofit collective dedicated to providing a competitive edge in the NIL space for University of Southern California student-athletes.

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Ranking USCFootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans of 2025, 21-30 Jul 13, 2025

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Shotgun Spratling and Chris Trevino are back together for a special behind-the-scenes edition of the Helium Boys Podcast. The Helium Boys work through the process of compiling and debating spots No. 21 through 30 as well as the First Five Out for the initial summer ranking of USCFootball.com's Top 30 Most Important Trojans' list for the 2025 season.

In this podcast, the Helium Boys give you a peek behind the curtain, allowing you to listen in on the first third of the rankings discussion as they debate and settle on the initial summer preseason rankings for No. 21 through No. 30 and the First Five Out (31-35).

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Tunnel Vision - Get to know USC redshirt freshman linebacker Jadyn Walker Jul 12, 2025

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In this special edition of Tunnel Vision hosts Ryan Abraham and Connor Morrissette (aka "Triple Double") are back in studio and joined remotely by Trojan second year linebacker Jadyn Walker who came to USC in the class of 2024 out of Portage Northern High School in Michigan.

Thanks to House of Victory, the 6-foot-2, 231 pound linebacker out of the heart of Big Ten country joins the show to talk about being recruited to play in D'Anton Lynn's defense, working with new linebackers coach Rob Ryan, his progress this spring, how he has been preparing for fall camp working with new strength and conditioning coach Trumain Carroll and the stiff competition in his position group.

USC has limited depth at the linebacker spot and Walker is poised to play a major role in the middle of the Trojan defense.

The interview with Walker was conducted in conjunction with House of Victory, an alumni-backed nonprofit collective dedicated to providing a competitive edge in the NIL space for University of Southern California student-athletes.

If you want to help out USC's NIL efforts, you can donate to House of Victory ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠here⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠.

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Composite Two-Star Recruits: Boobie Galore! USC lands Top247 WR Ethan Feaster and way-too-early 2027 lineups Jul 08, 2025

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The Composite Two-Star Recruits podcast is back to discuss USC landing Top247 WR Ethan Feaster, wrapping up the 2026 class and way-too-early look at potential 2027 lineups.

TIME STAMPS:

6:55: Cold Open (WR Boobie Feaster Commits)

31:32: Way-too-early 2027 Lineup Projections Pt. 1 (Offense)

1:16:20: Way-too-early 2027 Lineup Projections Pt. 2 (Defense)

2:03:04: What's Left on the Docket?

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