Since its inception in 2014, the College Football Playoff has seen three renditions with none of them seemingly appeasing the masses. The main holdup now is that the Big Ten and SEC each went a certain amount of automatic qualifiers.

With the future of the USC-Notre Dame football rivalry uncertain, Trojans coach Lincoln Riley on Thursday expressed his desire to retain the game -- under the right circumstances.

A lot of Lincoln Riley's words on Thursday sounded tough, but diving into them just a little reveals a head coach just looking for the easy way out.