[King Glorious]

Originally Posted by horseofcourse

USC shouldn't even be ranked at this point. They lost to a cess pool of a Stanford team. They struggled mightily with a Washington team that OSU hammered. Their signature win was over Nebraska, whom Missouri absolutely pummeled worse than USC did..indicating that USC probably isn't nearly as good as those two teams...granted they are both undefeated and in the top 10 teams...but anyway. They should not be in the top 20...perhaps a 21-35 ranking would be appropriate for them. So the last two years they have lost to Orgon State, UCLA and Stanford. The SC myth is quickly coming to an end. They are not that good. (I'm being a bit melodramatic, great program, but they are completely out of the National Championship picture in my mind even if they beat Cal and the rest of the PAC 10. You lose to Stanford, you should be done.)

However, if not for maybe one play, not only would they be in the top 20, they would still likely be in the top three. I agree that they aren't nearly as good as they have been in and I don't think they are among the top teams in the country this year. But they haven't slipped so far that they are not better than a team like South Florida. I wonder who would fare better, South Florida in USC's conference or vice-versa? Granted, the gap between the majors and the mid-majors is shrinking in football like it is in basketball. Just about any team is vulnerable on any given Saturday. Boise St beats Oklahoma. App St beats Michigan. The gap is shrinking. But on a week in, week out basis, a team like USC is better than South Florida. Florida is better than South Florida. While SF was playing at Florida Atlantic and nearly being upset (they led 28-23 in the final minute), Florida was nearly upsetting the #1 team in the country on the road.

I'm not saying that this week alone should put Florida ahead of South Florida. After all, SF did beat the same Auburn team that beat Florida. SF obviously has a talented team. I just can't see them as being as superior to Florida as the polls would indicate. The practice of automatically dropping down when u lose is silly. Florida's play in the loss was better than 90% of teams play in their wins. The polls always have been and always will be a sham.