Brady Quinn’s fumble hits Lincoln Riley amid blame game of Notre Dame football-USC rivalry

With rivalry between the Notre Dame football team and the USC Trojans which is ending for the foreseeable future due to the impossibility of an agreement, we hope that both programs will be able to renew it. As Trojans coach Lincoln Riley blamed the Notre Dame football team because he didn’t prolong the rivalry, Brady Quinn didn’t hold back against USC, especially Riley.

Riley would say he was on the side of the Fighting Irish for not living up to their word in scheduling the Trojans, and when Quinn heard the news, he would go on Fox Sports’ “Two Pros and a Glass of Joe.” He continued his six-minute rant about Fr USC football program and Riley for not being able to beat Notre Dame, and ruined his mandate with the Trojans in general.

“I said this publicly. It’s rich coming from a guy who basically questioned playing the game, at all, back in 2024,” Quinn said. “And that’s rich coming from him because he couldn’t beat Notre Dame, really, if you look at his record. I don’t know. Was his record as a head coach at USC better than Clay Helton’s? He didn’t win a conference championship, he didn’t win one in the Pac, he didn’t win one in the Rose Bowl, he never won a playoff, he never won a Big Bowl.

🏈Lincoln Riley says USC isn’t to blame for canceling Notre Dame rivalry.

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— FOX Sports Radio (@FoxSportsRadio) December 30, 2025

Brady Quinn continues the conversation about Notre Dame-USC football

While USC will not play the Notre Dame football program for an unknown amount of time, Quinn would continue his grievances against Riley and the Trojans. In addition to taking aim at Riley for being wary of tough competition, Quinn would address rumors surrounding the scheduling of talks between USC and Notre Dame.

“It’s true that they offered a proposal that they knew Notre Dame wouldn’t be able to play because their current 2026 schedule was already set with some of those early dates because SC wanted to play before conference play,” Quinn said. “And some of those dates are already set. You can’t move that already. They already had to move the Wisconsin Lambeau Field game — I believe it was during COVID. So they had to, like, make up through it. That was the reality.”

There’s no question Quinn went to scorched earth at USC, as people wonder what the future relationship between the two programs will look like.