Yahoo Sports' Jason Fitz, Caroline Fenton, and Adam Breneman discuss the dire straits USC finds itself in after losing to Penn St. and falling to 3-3 on the season. Hear the full conversation on the “College Football Power Hour” podcast - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or wherever you listen.

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We've learned that US c at this point is a joke.

Like, like, do you, you want to say that you give them respect?

You know what?

I don't respect anybody that sits here and tells me they put on 1400 pounds of poke so they can compete in the big 10.

Hell of a lot of good those Big Macs are doing you now, like Lincoln Riley gets paid over $100 million in his contract to lose three games this quickly.

Like it's OK to say this is a disaster if we're paying Lincoln Riley 100 and $10 million plus to be the head coach.

What exactly is he getting paid to do?

He's getting paid to win national championships, not be a top 16 to 25 teams.

It's not even just losing to a top five team in the country and you gave it your best, you know, good job, you know, pat on the back.

Everybody gets a cookie.

It's the fact that US C had so many opportunities to win this game and they said no, thank you, Mr Franklin.

I would like you to have it when you're leading 20 to 6 at home.

And then you let Penn State right back into the game.

This is a Lincoln Riley offense.

This is supposed to be kind of the calling card of his teams is offenses and teams that can put up, you know, crazy gaudy numbers and, and yards and points and just, we didn't see that.

So for every opportunity that US c had to win this football game, winning the turnover, battle out, out gaining Penn State on the ground.

They didn't, it hurts my brain to think about how frustrated Lincoln Riley must be going to sleep tonight.

I mean, he just must be just so fed up and frustrated with his team this season because in all three of their losses, they look like the much better team.

I mean, and that's, I know it means nothing but they look better than Michigan when they lost to Michigan.

They were clearly better than Minnesota but made mistakes and lost the game at the end on the questionable goal line call.

They look better than Penn State through the 1st 3.5 quarters of that game and then found a way to lose the game in overtime.

So if there's a bright side or a or any silver lining for us c it, that they have one of the hardest schedules in the country had to play LSU in week one, got out with a win, had to play Michigan.

Penn State.

Minnesota Wisconsin early in the season.

UFC beat Wisconsin and then throughout the rest of the year, they play Notre Dame, they got to play Nebraska.

So US C has a tough schedule and for Lincoln Riley in this game against Penn State, they're without Eric Gentry, probably their best defensive player, second best defensive player after Kama Ramsey.

So there, there may be some bright spots moving forward for US C but they're completely out of the playoff picture.

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