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Opinion: Lincoln Riley to USC was a no-brainer. He avoids SEC mayhem, has shot at a championship.

Like the final scene in "The Usual Suspects," the little clues that had been laid out for everyone to see started to come together just before 4 p.m. on the East Coast, roughly 16 hours after Lincoln Riley uttered the following words: “I’m not going to be the next head coach at LSU.”