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Originally posted by ktsnake
I'll agree with that... USC is a good team. However, I have yet to see much reason to give creedance to the ability of PAC-10 teams. OU didn't get the PAC-10 butt-kicking that we'd anticipated in the Rose Bowl from Wazzu..
And UCLA this year allowed Jason White and company to score 50+.
Yeah.. K-State beat Cal
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Yeah, we started out the season w a bunch of ranked teams--OU, Ore St, WA St. ASU, USC... and end up w just us and WA St. Pac 10 is a tough conference, because regardless of the disparity between the best (USC, WA St) and the worst in the conference, we all play each other pretty toughly, and an undefeated team w in the Pac 10 is pretty rare. USC did it in 88, our only loss was to Notre Dame. That was also the last time we were ranked 2nd, and the measles was decimating the campus and the football team that November. We had Rodney Peete and UCLA had Troy Aikman battling it out that year.
I never under-estimate our Pac 10 opponents. Everyone can have a good or bad week. Look at our loss to Cal as a prime example. We were too busy looking ahead to the next week and a ranked opponent and we got beat.
Hopefully that won't happen again, as I'd love a chance to play Oklahoma. It would be a great game. USC is far tougher than the rest of the Pac-10, that is a fact, but, as our loss to Cal shows, that doesn't make us unbeatable. But, unlike Miami, our loss was at beginning of season, which is why, of all the 1 loss teams, we will get the shot if we win out.
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