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Lincoln Riley leaving Oklahoma to be USC head football coach

Lincoln Riley said he wasn't leaving Oklahoma for LSU. He didn't say he wasn't leaving the Sooners for USC.

In a stunning move on Sunday, Riley, 38, accepted the head-coaching position at USC.

"Leaving OU was probably the most difficult decision of my life," Riley said in a statement released by Oklahoma. "OU is one of the best college football programs in the country, and it has been forever. ... This was a personal decision solely based on my willingness to go take on a new challenge, and I felt like it was the right opportunity for me and my family to do that.