USC Trojans head coach Lincoln Riley discusses how the team has risen for the game coming up

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00:00Are you expecting Caden to be out for a little while?

00:02I don't think it'll be that long, but, you know, it's a unique position, you know,

00:10and guys obviously want to feel good, want to feel healthy.

00:13And so we're trying to manage, obviously, getting him back in

00:16with also the amount of proper time to let everything calm down.

00:21So I don't think it'll be much longer, but, I mean, either way,

00:24you know, Ryan's definitely going to factor in.

00:26Over the past couple of weeks,

00:27how have you kind of seen the younger guys come to the realization

00:29that this is the moment coming up, no longer a rehearsal?

00:32Yeah, I mean, there's a lot of excitement, especially for your freshmen.

00:36They're so used to playing scrimmages and doing all that in high school,

00:40and all of a sudden you don't have it, and then this camp's long,

00:43and then all of a sudden you're going to be in the Coliseum

00:45and somebody's going to be on the other sideline.

00:47It's going to be real.

00:47So the team, I think, as a whole has really risen up this week.

00:51There was a ton of energy out here Sunday night, again today.

00:54So you can tell the team senses that it's near,

00:58and you can tell them just kind of rising their level of energy.

01:02And I think just the kind of juice on the field over the last few days

01:07has been like you could tell the team is just really hungry to play.