{"id":1836,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1836","headline":"Lincoln Riley calls postgame shouting match with Ohio State AD a non-issue","dek":"The USC coach addressed the viral sideline confrontation with Ross Bjork three days after beating the then-No. 2 Buckeyes 30-18.","body":"Lincoln Riley spent part of his Tuesday media availability cleaning up a mess he insists was never really a mess. The USC coach addressed the postgame shouting match with Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork that went viral after Saturday's 30-18 upset of the then-No. 2 Buckeyes at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.\n\nVideo of the exchange spread quickly once fans stormed the field to celebrate, with Riley seen yelling expletives at Bjork as the teams left the field. Riley called it \"typical emotions after the game\" and said the whole thing was a non-issue that had already been resolved.\n\nBy Tuesday, Riley struck a notably calmer tone than the heated scene captured on camera days earlier, saying he put the dustup behind him almost immediately. USC's win over Ohio State was the headline result, but the sideline theater afterward gave the matchup an extra life online, prompting both programs to address it publicly before the week moved on.","published_at":"2026-11-04T23:33:22.238429+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"USC HC Lincoln Riley downplays viral dust-up with Ohio State AD after beating Buckeyes","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/usc-hc-lincoln-riley-downplays-044404635.html"},{"outlet":"The Athletic","publisher":"The Athletic","title":"USC's Lincoln Riley on heated exchange with Ohio State AD: 'It's a non-issue'","url":"https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7752150/2026/11/03/usc-lincoln-riley-confrontation-ohio-state-athletic-director/"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"USC’s Lincoln Riley takes different tack regarding blowup with Ohio State AD","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/11/03/sports/usc-lincoln-riley-ohio-state-ad-ross-bjork/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"Lincoln Riley addresses heated postgame exchange with Ohio State AD Ross Bjork","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/lincoln-riley-postgame-exchange-ohio-state-ad-ross-bjork/"}],"image":null,"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}