USC football is dropping Texas Tech from future schedules. You know that the national media reaction will focus on Lincoln Riley being soft or weak. We aren't going to deal with that well-worn topic here. Let's simply pivot to what the Trojans should do to replace that game on their schedule before, it should be noted, Notre Dame comes back onto the slate in 2030. This is not a long-term plan, but a short-term deal.
The obvious answers: Stanford and Cal. USC regularly played the San Francisco Bay Area schools for a long time. Now that both the Trees and the Golden Bears are out of USC's conference, a nonconference meeting with those schools makes all the sense in the world. What makes even more sense is that since Stanford and Cal have to make cross-country trips to play ACC road games, they can surely use a nonconference game in which they don't have to travel a long distance. A home-and-home with USC is such a logical and obvious solution to a problem the Cardinal and Bears have in Palo Alto and Berkeley, respectively.
Stanford or Cal versus USC. This is the nonconference game which obviously needs to happen in the coming years. If people are upset about the Texas Tech series getting nixed, having Stanford or Cal step in as a replacement would be welcome and happy news for a lot of Trojan fans.
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This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: Stanford and Cal make natural USC replacements for Texas Tech

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