Celebrities saw USC at its best under Pete Carroll; not so under Lincoln Riley
The stars were out for the USC-UCLA game, including pop-punker queen and USC student Olivia Rodrigo.
In spite of Rodrigo’s presence and the hype which attended it, USC ended up losing to UCLA 38-20. Celebrities aren’t seeing the Trojan empire thrive the way it did when Pete Carroll developed a must-see attraction every week in the early 2000s.
Still, Rodrigo had quite a day at the Coliseum. The Grammy winner seemed to have a good time at the game, even sharing a video of USC’s pep band playing “Good 4 U” in the stands.
The USC Trojans suffered their fifth loss in their last six games to close out this dreadful nightmare of a 2023 season.
Rodrigo provided a welcome distraction from the football mess on the field.
The 20-year-old singer-actress’ time among USC football fans came just a few days after she attended the premiere of “Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” to which she contributed an original song titled “Can’t Catch Me Now.” On the red carpet, she posed for pictures with members of the film’s cast, including Rachel Zegler, Hunter Schafer and Tom Blyth.
Olivia is currently enrolled as a part-time online student at the University of Southern California. In 2022, she enrolled at the University of Southern California’s Thornton School of Music, where she took music production classes.
Olivia began college in a less-than-ideal way:
“I had no friends, I didn’t know where to go and I actually walked into the wrong class,” she revealed. “I sat there the whole time and was like ‘I’m in the wrong class.’”
That has changed.
Now USC football needs to change, so that celebrities and the rest of the USC fan base can see winning football again, like the Pete Carroll days.
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