By Matt Zemek, Trojans Wire: Our story begins with a recollection of the night before Lincoln Riley was hired by USC.
The Oklahoma Sooners visited the Oklahoma State Cowboys. The winner would go to the Big 12 Championship Game.
I watched that game live, not knowing that Lincoln Riley would be the head coach of USC 24 hours later (to be precise, fewer than 20 hours later).
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