Swanson: USC’s Lincoln Riley might want to win a press conference

LOS ANGELES — That there’s much discourse at all about anything Lincoln Riley has said says a lot, I think, about how things are going at USC.

As it is, his Trojans football team – unranked this week after checking in at No. 11 two weeks ago – will host No. 4 Penn State in a win-or-kiss-playoffs-goodbye game Saturday afternoon at the Coliseum.

Before that, Riley ended Tuesday’s practice by addressing the few-days-old controversy of Minnesota’s game-winning fourth-and-goal score: “Unfortunate for us …” but not...