JUST IN: I tried my best but am disappointed by LSU Tigers decision.

The college football season is slowly approaching as we are less than three months away from the first game of the season. There are going to be a lot of exciting matchups to start the year, and one of the biggest games will be between USC football and LSU football at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. The Trojans and Tigers are going to be playing in primetime on the Sunday of week one, but according to a report from Saturday Down South, Lincoln Riley and USC tried to get out of the game.

USC football vs. LSU football was originally scheduled in 2021 and both schools are making $5 million off the game. However, Lincoln Riley and the Trojans tried to back out.

“The biggest game of the opening weekend of college football almost never happened,” The report said. “USC tried for nearly 2 years to find a way out of a contract to play LSU in Las Vegas because Trojans coach Lincoln Riley didn’t want the game, multiple sources told Saturday Down South.”

Riley pulled out a lot of stops when he was trying to get out of this game. At one point, Fox Sports even got involved. This USC-LSU will be airing on ABC, an ESPN network. The Big Ten has a huge media deal with Fox, and the network got involved because this will be the Trojans’ first game as a Big Ten team, and it won’t be aired on a network that the Big Ten has a deal with.

Fox tried to help USC, but it didn’t work.

“They weren’t getting out of the game,” A source said.

Another route that Riley took was talking to his agent, who also represents LSU head coach Brian Kelly. Riley wanted his agent, Trace Armstrong, to help get Kelly on board with changing things up for that matchup, but that didn’t work either. The Trojans were never going to find a way out of this huge contest.