It annoys me when people bring up USC's strength of schedule.
All our non conference games are scheduled against Div 1 teams-- unlike other conferences who proclaim to be harder than ours but who regularly schedule 1AA teams for their non conference games.
Kudos to Arkansas for agreeing to start our home and home at USC and to UT and OSU for their non conference game this year. THIS is what makes College Football exciting and separates the best from the rest...
Not teams who play Lousiana Monroe and Louisiana Lafayette.
/rant
and thank you ConnieBama for the "USC deserves to be #1 until they lose." That is true. 'Course, I am biased.