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Ryan Kartje details success and ‘institutional hubris’ of 2000s USC football in ‘House of Troy’ podcast

Published by Awful Announcing on September 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM ET

No other college football team will ever be quite like the USC Trojans in the 2000s. They won back-to-back national championships and came close to an unprecedented threepeat, while dominating pop culture. Snoop Dogg and Will Ferrell hung around the program, and rumors circulated that Matt Leinart was dating Paris Hilton. USC was THE football team…

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