Louisville football is emerging as a potential destination for USC QB Miller Moss

LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The transfer portal hasn’t officially opened yet, but a player the Louisville football program is very familiar with is emerging as a potential landing spot.

USC quarterback Miller Moss, who announced his transfer on Monday, is expected to “look at” four schools – including Louisville – once he officially hits the portal On3’s Pete Nakos. The other three in play are Auburn, Iowa and Michigan.

The 6-foot-1, 200-pound signal caller started the first nine games of USC’s 2024 season and completed 64.4 percent of his passes for 2,555 yards and 18 touchdowns with nine interceptions.

However, he had problems at times in October. In his last five starts with the Trojans, he completed 63.5 percent of his throws for 1,357 yards and 10 touchdowns, but also threw seven interceptions.

After a three-interception performance in a 26-21 loss to Washington, he was benched for the final three games of the year in favor of UNLV transfer Jayden Maiava.

“You literally couldn’t change anything that Miller did and we could be sitting here with a really, really good record,” USC Lincoln Riley said after officially benching Moss. USC notably has lost five fourth-quarter leads this season. “Miller did a very good job. He was a really good leader for this team. He remained loyal to this program. He worked hard and did a lot of really good things on the football field.”

Moss sat on USC’s bench for the first three years of his time with the Trojans and was the backup to Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams during the 2022 and 2023 seasons. The first start of his college career came in the 2023 Holiday Bowl against none other than Louisville, where he threw for 372 yards and six touchdowns with one interception.

Monday, December 9th marks the first day of college football’s 30-day winter transfer portal window. Players then have until Saturday, December 28th to enter the portal per current NCAA guidelines. So far, Louisville has had five of its own players announce that they will enter the portal when it opens.

(Photo by Miller Moss: Kirby Lee – Imagn Images)

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