Lincoln Riley or Marcus Freeman: Who wins a National Championship first? | First Take

Stephen A. Smith is joined by Sam Acho and Tim Tebow to debate if Lincoln Riley and the USC Trojans or Marcus Freeman and the Notre Dame fighting Irish can make it to a National Championship first.
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[joey]

Why isn't anyone mentioning NIL? With NIL, USC is going to attract top recruits not only from Cali, but also from across the country. Had they had NIL in the Pete Carroll days, Matt Leinart, Reggie Bush, and Lendale White would have raked in millions.

[VawlterWhite]

Tim Tebow is the most respectful person I’ve ever seen

[mxl_reps_]

Here on 5/23/22 and Tebow sounds like he makes the most sense

[bvgshouldbecoach]

With ND’s improved Oline play, wide receiver play, (due to new and better coaches), better emotions, no BK excuses, and going after better athletes with better coaches, ND has a very real shot

[georgemunroe]

Let me help everyone with this. I'll simplify it for people USC, Lincoln Riley, Los Angeles and NIL (Name Image and Likeness). The opportunity for football players to make money in one of the Nation's LARGEST MEDIA MARKET. It will be a feeding frenzy. USC will win a national title before LSU and especially Notre Dame.

[chrisdufort]

People dont watch ND football during the regular season and it shows. Kelly is going to be awful in the SEC. People never got to see how much he didn’t care to win games big. The amount of times when a game is close at half time with lets says 1:20 seconds on the clock before half. HE’D KNEEL ON THE BALL TO HALFTIME. Like dude, if you want to be great at least act like you have the guts to try and win big. He was always too cautious and that wont fly in the SEC. Thats why he lost every big game. He’d change his entire offensive scheme to try and throw off the opponents and it never worked

[Whatsthe_dill]

Usc all day! California has the best football players and lincon riley has them in his back yard to scout and make personal relationships. USC I'd gonna be a major threat here in the next few years if not next year...

[leemarie]

Tim Tebow is SEC guy pure and simple. He never gives credit to ND schedule or teams

[irish]

It’s hilarious that they talk about Lincoln Riley like that when his playoff resume is even worse than notre dame

[Alex_Lynch]

“Brian Kelly wasn’t a shabby recruiter” actually the more and more info comes out the more light is being shed on how terrible a recruiter he is

[brandonabner]

Should be Riley how been coaching for a couple of years now. USC is way easier to get top talent while ND has academic levels. But in the long term Freeman yes

[OldChanCharlie]

Question should be who will be fired first. These dudes ain’t winning a chip

[heydude]

Why does the national media hate Oklahoma?

[BromanderInChief]

Who has inherited a better situation? Freeman, by far.

[RaysDad]

USC did a lot of work to improve the football program infrastructure before they let Clay Helton go. They are ready to make full use of Lincoln Riley, just as professor Stephen A. Smith says.

[Narnho]

Wake Forest 35 - Pitt 31. 8:00 PM ABC 12.4.21

[ndn]

It never makes sense saying Someone will win the ship in a
Weak conference, cause you don’t play people in your conference for the ship. You play most likely two sec teams, osu or Clemson. Not ucla, not asu, not even Oregon. It’s easy to make the debate that usc should win their conference probably before Brian Kelly cauee theirs lesser teams. But to win a ship vs any of those teams. Naw and people act like Lincoln Riley had a defensively good team at OU.

[marketweis]

Life-long Irish fan. I've been alive for 3 championships. When I saw our last one in '88, I was 21. I NEVER thought that would be the last one I'd see up till now. We ND fans have sadly been conditioned to think that it's virtually impossible for us to win a natty, when those other 2 schools have at least taken the big prize home this fvcking millennium, so I'm picking both USC & LSU to do it before we do. (As an aside....jeezus raked us over the coals! lol)

[LD]

Lincoln Riley had Kyler Murray and Baker Mayfield and couldn’t even win a playoff game. He’s not winning a championship

[hoeelander]

Notre Dame not winning 😂😂😂, Ill take USC in 3-4 years