Caleb Williams has already won the Heisman Trophy in hand and he’s viewed as a likely first-round choice when he enters the NFL Draft, be it after the 2023 season or beyond. He was the Pac-12’s Offensive Player of the Year, a unanimous All-American, the Maxwell Award winner, and the winner of the Walter Camp Award as college football’s most outstanding player.

He had a historic season even by lofty USC quarterbacking standards.

He was asked last week when he met with local reporters what will drive him going forward, and the answer was legendary. Literally.

“I don’t want to be forgotten,” Williams said. “That means immortality, and that means championships. I’m not there yet and I won’t be there for a while. So I’m still working, still fighting for those dreams and goals.”

Williams wants to win a championship at USC. He’s got at least one season left in Los Angeles before presumably moving on to the NFL Draft.

The Trojans made it to the doorstep of the College Football Playoff this season, peaking at No. 4 in the penultimate rankings. It set up a situation in the Pac-12 Championship Game where a win over Utah would have sent USC, in Year 1 under Lincoln Riley, to the CFP.

But Williams suffered a hamstring injury early in the game, USC’s defense struggled to do much of anything throughout, and the Trojans fell 47-24. The Utes garnered their second consecutive Pac-12 title and sent the Trojans to the Cotton Bowl instead of a CFP semifinal.

An 11-2 record — with a chance to get to 12 wins — one year removed from a 4-8 season is nothing to sneeze at, but Riley and Co. set expectations high when they landed in L.A. It’s a championship-or-bust kind of staff, and Williams is already setting the same kind of expectations for next year’s team.