The Polls: Week 3

[High 5]

USC beat an Arkansas team without McFadden and a WR playing QB if I remember correctly. Beat Georgia, Florida or LSU and I'll be impressed. I'd like nothing more than for Georgia to play USC in the NC. Of course, we have lost our best OL, our best DL and we have by far the toughest schedule in the country. USC on the other hand gets to coast through the Pac-1...Oh USC beat Virigina who will at the very best go 3-9. They beat OSU who might not even win the crappy Big Ten this year.

USC should win the NC every year. They have zero recruiting competition west of Texas and they only have to beat 1 or 2 decent teams to go undefeated on a tough year. The fact they only have one NC during these years of "dominance" is sad.

[craig01]

NO TEAM . . . and the SHOW will repeat that to you again . . . NO TEAM FROM THE S.E.C. can hang with USC. we would spank, shank and take any of those teams to the bank. you go ahead to the south . . . and tell ALL YOUR BOYS from down yonder, that they should remember what happened when we faced off with auburn. remember cadillac or brown? we turned him into dump truck and yellow. remember that arkansas team that went to the SEC championship game? we threw 70 and 50pts on that team! SO DONT BRING THAT SEC stuff and attempt to compare it to us, because we have ownership papers on that conference . . . and they know it.

Bring it on. Maybe this year USC can beat Stanford .

USC is good, no doubt, and maybe has the most "talent on paper" ever. Put them in the SEC, and I guarantee you they would not run the table. When the NCAA gets around to the dirty details, the run at USC takes a nosedive.

Beating Arkansas twice in September hardly qualifies as "ownership". I'll concede ownership after USC wins at Auburn, at LSU, against Fla, against Georgia, and at Alabama over a five or six week schedule.

[skones]

ON WISCONSIN.

If you wanna be a badger, just come along with me by the bright shining light of the moon.

[LAKESHOW]

NO TEAM . . . and the SHOW will repeat that to you again . . . NO TEAM FROM THE S.E.C. can hang with USC. we would spank, shank and take any of those teams to the bank. you go ahead to the south . . . and tell ALL YOUR BOYS from down yonder, that they should remember what happened when we faced off with auburn. remember cadillac or brown? we turned him into dump truck and yellow. remember that arkansas team that went to the SEC championship game? we threw 70 and 50pts on that team! SO DONT BRING THAT SEC stuff and attempt to compare it to us, because we have ownership papers on that conference . . . and they know it.

Bring it on. Maybe this year USC can beat Stanford .

USC is good, no doubt, and maybe has the most "talent on paper" ever. Put them in the SEC, and I guarantee you they would not run the table. When the NCAA gets around to the dirty details, the run at USC takes a nosedive.

Beating Arkansas twice in September hardly qualifies as "ownership". I'll concede ownership after USC wins at Auburn, at LSU, against Fla, against Georgia, and at Alabama over a five or six week schedule.

well thats true, because tennessee should have an easy time with our sisters from down the street, ucla.

[Flaming Mo]

georgia gets 2 votes and florida gets 1?? what kind of crap is that, cmon, just unbelievable. we travelled 3000 miles to body slam virginia. and then come back home to lay the smackdown on OSU. yet some guys vote for georgia and florida for the TOP spot? or even oklahoma?

man, we are in trouble if we struggle against arizona or cal this year. these pollsters are ready and willing and looking for any excuse to vote USC out of the BCS title game.

Congrats on beating this great Virginia team. Your win gets even more impressive after the Cavaliers just barely lost at UConn by more than 30 points... beatin the mighty Buckeyes is another thing to be really excited about as we see. Hell, Ohio almost managed to beat them.

Screw all these stupid rankins and all that crap, now it all doesn't matter. All I know the rest of USC's schedule is a giant cakewalk while LSU, Florida, Georgia and Auburn will all slub it out against each other.

OK son, now the SHOW is gonna take you to the woodshed!

NO TEAM . . . and the SHOW will repeat that to you again . . . NO TEAM FROM THE S.E.C. can hang with USC. we would spank, shank and take any of those teams to the bank. you go ahead to the south . . . and tell ALL YOUR BOYS from down yonder, that they should remember what happened when we faced off with auburn. remember cadillac or brown? we turned him into dump truck and yellow. remember that arkansas team that went to the SEC championship game? we threw 70 and 50pts on that team! SO DONT BRING THAT SEC stuff and attempt to compare it to us, because we have ownership papers on that conference . . . and they know it.

So you gonna brag about beating an unranked Auburn team??! Geeez...

Craig is making a great about the tough spans SEC have to go through. They can't coast threw weeks of easy competition and then come rested for a strong opponent. They have to be mentally and physically ready every week or they will end up with their share of losses.

Nobody denies USC being a very good team but what got the discussion started, comparing schedules and stuff, is just a point ridiculously in the favor of the SEC.

[El Turco]

No, I'm not hating on them. But when USC start to brag about their schedule and how they might be treated badly in the polls, things need to be put in perspective.

USC shouldnt take any criticism for the schedule they played so far. yes, virginia isnt a good team but they are still better than most of the D-II teams that major CFB teams tend to play for their first game. think what you want about OSU but they were ranked above USC just three weeks ago and still has a very good chance to finish in top 10 or top 15 at worst. and other than ECU i dont see any other team that played a better schedule.

granted Pac-1 is nowhere near the SEC in terms of competition but i am having hard time putting that against USC.just about every conference goes through soft cycles and USC has no choice but to play the games assigned to them in the conference. for ooc games which they have control over scheduling, they did a pretty good job by taking on mediocre BCS conference team and one of the biggest football programs in the country.

[LAKESHOW]

Congrats on beating this great Virginia team. Your win gets even more impressive after the Cavaliers just barely lost at UConn by more than 30 points... beatin the mighty Buckeyes is another thing to be really excited about as we see. Hell, Ohio almost managed to beat them.

Screw all these stupid rankins and all that crap, now it all doesn't matter. All I know the rest of USC's schedule is a giant cakewalk while LSU, Florida, Georgia and Auburn will all slub it out against each other.

So you gonna brag about beating an unranked Auburn team??! Geeez...

Craig is making a great about the tough spans SEC have to go through.

Nobody denies USC being a very good team but what got the discussion started, comparing schedules and stuff, is just a point ridiculously in the favor of the SEC.[/quote]

uhh, that would be incorrect. they were ranked #1 . . . NUMBER 1 when we played them at home! AT AUBURN! so weve seen that so called tough homefield advantage down south. and frankly, the game wasnt even close. heck, even auburn with the likes of carlos rogers etc. was sayin, damn, USC has some serious speed.

secondly, if you read, he is baggin on virginia and ohio state on our schedule. remember, when we played virginia, the only game tape we had on them was from the previous year when they were highly ranked and bowl contending team. we didnt play them in their second game, we played them in the first game. so we had no idea what we were up against. but all of the sudden someone wants to play monday morning QB and say they stink. well who knew that in the very first game of the year??? theyve just sent a guy top 10 in the draft, thats an indicator that theyve got top notch talent and weve gotta travel 3000 miles to face it. also, give me a break about OSU, we dont see any SEC teams scheduling the OHIO STATES of the world. they were ranked top 3 when we faced them . . . but again, all of the sudden someone wants to play monday morning QB after USC gains a win against their formidable program.

so there is no credence to the thought that we dont know about, nor are ready to face top notch SEC teams on the road, in tough places such as auburn. been there, done that.

third, auburn had success for many years with who? a west coast guy from ucla teaching their offensive schemes. florida has success with who? some guy named urban meyer with the spread he brought in from utah, we know that stuff. lsu has success with who? some offensive coordinator out of byu and previously from oregon in the pac-10. WE KNOW THAT STUFF. weve seen those schemes. pac-10 teams run those same designs. and guess what? weve got 6 straight pac-10 titles to prove it. so those new fangled offensive schemes that are winning championships and titles in the SEC may be new to those 3 yards and a cloud of dust folks down south, but weve seen that junk before. that is why we get those 70 or 50pt blowouts vs. those SEC teams. fortunately for them, we held back and didnt slap the century mark on 'em.

[craig01]

The difference is in that the SEC, a team will play 5-6 games every year against teams with top ten talent.

Usc will play 2-3 games against teams with top ten talent. There is a big difference. Especially when most of those games may be on consecutive weeks. The Pac 10 is good, but it does not have the depth of talent that the SEC does from top to bottom.

But in defense of USC, they have never dodged anybody, and Notre Dame/UCLA being dogs does not help validate their schedule.

BTW- those games against Auburn and Arkansas were early season games, hardly a barometer of the quality of those teams. Still, USC won them, but they were not the best teams in the SEC. Auburn was a year away from being a top 5 team, and Arkansas was, well, Arkansas.....a second tier talent team in the SEC.

[High 5]

USC has the perfect schedule to end the season undefeated and at #1. On top of the usual Pac-1 schedule, they opened the year in Virginia where Virginia was judged based on a decent year last year, not the fact that they're arguably the worst team in the ACC this year. Then they get a bye before their biggest game of the year (against the most overrated team in the country at that), and just incase they have a bye right after. Then they get a long week before their 2nd toughest game of the year. And if that wasn't enough, they get another bye before two of their biggest rivals. Oh, and just for good measure they get all of the potentially tough games at home. Except Stanford.

Props to the genius that set that up.