{"id":230082,"date":"2026-06-11T11:46:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/lincoln-riley-usc-football-hire-director-of-artificial-intelligence\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T12:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T16:00:26","slug":"lincoln-riley-usc-football-hire-director-of-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/lincoln-riley-usc-football-hire-director-of-artificial-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Lincoln Riley, USC football hire director of artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trojanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/trojans\/football\/2026\/06\/11\/lincoln-riley-usc-football-hire-director-artificial-intelligence\/90504621007\/\">Lincoln Riley, USC football hire director of artificial intelligence<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/trojanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/trojans\/football\/2026\/06\/11\/lincoln-riley-usc-football-hire-director-artificial-intelligence\/90504621007\/\">https:\/\/trojanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/trojans\/football\/2026\/06\/11\/lincoln-riley-usc-football-hire-director-artificial-intelligence\/90504621007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 11:46:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"trojanswire.usatoday.com\">trojanswire.usatoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>USC football program hires Conor McQuiston as the first-ever director of artificial intelligence (AI) in college football history.<\/li>\n<li>McQuiston will report directly to Chad Bowden, USC general manager and son of former MLB general manager Jim Bowden.<\/li>\n<li>Members of the Trojans football program praised the decision made by athletics director Jennifer Cohen to appoint McQuiston, emphasizing the importance of embracing AI technology.<\/li>\n<li>Southern California intends to hire more staff to support the football program&#8217;s analytics department and research as AI becomes more widespread.<\/li>\n<li>The appointment signifies USC&#8217;s commitment to staying ahead of the game in terms of integrating AI technology within its athletic department and the entire university.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lincoln Riley, USC football hire director of artificial intelligence https:\/\/trojanswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/college\/trojans\/football\/2026\/06\/11\/lincoln-riley-usc-football-hire-director-artificial-intelligence\/90504621007\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-11 11:46:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/trojanswire.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/06\/11\/STRJ\/90504810007-usatsi-27909282-168416287-lowres-3.jpg?crop=2327,1310,x0,y174&width=2327&height=1310&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-230082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230082"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230084,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230082\/revisions\/230084"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}