TCU OC Kendal Briles departs before Alamo Bowl matchup with USC

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Later this month, USC will wrap up its 2025 football season when the Trojanstravel to San Antonio for the Alamo Bowl. There, they will face off against a TCU team that finished the season 8-4 playing in the Big 12.

However, a notable development occurred earlier this week when the Horned Frogs lost their offensive coordinator, Kendal Briles. Briles left TCU to take the OC job at South Carolina.

With Briles gone, he will not be calling the plays for the Horned Frogs against the Trojans. As of this week, TCU head coach Sonny Dykes has not yet announced who will call plays in the game.

“We’re trying to figure that out,” Dykes said. “The world of college football is always working on contingency plans. And so I think there’s always a Plan A, a Plan B, Plan C, etc., all the way down the road. I don’t know what we’re going to do quite yet. As that plays out we’ll have an answer for you.”

Briles served as TCU’s offensive coordinate for the past three seasons. Prior to his arrival, the job was actually held by Garrett Riley, the younger brother of USC head coach Lincoln Riley. In 2022, the younger Riley won the Broyles Award, presented annually to the top assistant coach in college football, while with the Horned Frogs. In 2023, he left to become the offensive coordinator at Clemson, leading to Briles’s hire at TCU.

This article originally appeared on Trojans Wire: TCU’s Kendal Briles leaves before Alamo Bowl against USC football

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