So how far do the trojans fall?

[The Maestro]

It will be interesting to see where the pundits that adored them place them. Here is the coaches poll as of right now...

RANK TEAM RECORD PTS PVS
1. USC (56) 2-0 1517 1
2. Oklahoma (2) 3-0 1424 2
3. Georgia (2) 4-0 1388 3
4. Florida (1) 3-0 1345 4
5. Missouri 4-0 1284 5
6. LSU 3-0 1247 6
7. Texas 3-0 1143 7
8. Wisconsin 3-0 1041 8
9. Texas Tech 4-0 944 10
10. Alabama 4-0 939 13
11. BYU 4-0 931 11
12. Penn State 4-0 818 15
13. Ohio State 3-1 744 14
14. South Florida 4-0 721 16
15. Wake Forest 3-0 678 18
16. Auburn 3-1 650 9
17. Utah 4-0 528 20
18. Kansas 3-1 506 19
19. Clemson 3-1 378 21
20. Boise State 3-0 265 NR
21. Illinois 2-1 233 23
22. Oregon 3-1 174 12
23. TCU 4-0 151 NR
24. Fresno State 2-1 117 NR
25. Vanderbilt 4-0 103 NR
Others Receiving Votes
East Carolina 88, Nebraska 83, Oklahoma State 55, Connecticut 54, Virginia Tech 47, Michigan State 37, Kentucky 36, Colorado 30, Northwestern 21, Tulsa 17, Ball State 16, Arizona State 11, California 9, Minnesota 8, Purdue 8, West Virginia 7, Miami (FL) 7, Georgia Tech 7, Cincinnati 6, Maryland 6, Louisville 3

Now USC should be ahead of Ohio State, but Auburn should now be ahead of USC and Ohio State. Losing to LSU is better than USC's loss. South Florida has a win over Kansas and is unbeaten. They are 14th and should be ahead of USC.

If USC even sniffs the top 10 it is a JOKE!

By the way, listening to Corso on espnradio.com with Cowherd. These guys are banging on Petey today...saying he got completely outcoached. Funny how quick they jump off his jock.

[fossil]

:P I say they drop to number 11. No way should they be ranked ahead of the teams that are undefeated, even if the season is but four weeks old.

[oumartin]

2 spots below oregon state :)

[sooneron]

They shouldn't have any major undefeated teams behind them. Fair is fair.

I will guess 9-11

[4everasooner]

#10

[Sooner_09]

Remember this is USC were talking about..I'd be surprised if they fall out of the top 10

[stoops the eternal pimp]

1a

[Mad Dog Madsen]

I say right above Ohio State. So right at about 12. But who really cares?

[Remembering Tom Stidham]

How far did they fall last year when they lost to a pathetic Stanford team?

[oupride]

#15
right below Wake Forest

[Dio]

Maybe as low as 5

[badger]

I think that it depends on how the rest of the teams do this weekend :D

(yes, cop out)

[stoops the eternal pimp]

number 3

behind

Notre Dame and any sec school

[IronHorseSooner]

At least below Penn State (if they beat the Illini). Joe Pa's boys destroyed that same Oregon State team. What's even worse for SUC that even with the loss, their best defender was injured. The only guys on that team who looked like they cared at all were Sanchez and Maualaga. If they don't get things right, they might have a couple more losses by the end of the season.

[The Maestro]

Everyone agrees the Pac 10 is really bad. Check out the standings today...

1. Arizona - 1-0 - loss at New Mexico
1. Oregon - 1-0 - loss at home to Boise State
1. Cal - 1-0 - loss at Maryland
1. ASU - 1-0 - loss to UNLV and Georgia at home
5. Stanford - 1-1 - loss at TCU and at ASU
5. Oregon State - 1-1 - loss at Stanford and Penn State
7. UCLA - 0-1 - loss at BYU and at home to AZ
7. Washington State - 0-1 - loss to OSU, Cal and Baylor
7. Washington - 0-1 - loss to OU, BYU and Oregon
7. USC - 0-1...tied for last!!!

Giddy like a school girl...

[BoulderSooner79]

Hopefully, it won't matter any more. If USC wins out, they would still end up behind any 1 loss SEC or big12 team and any undefeated big10 team. Last year was the only year a 2-loss team got into the title game, so the odds are there will be enough undefeated or 1-loss teams to fill the slots. 'SC doesn't have a ranked team left on their schedule, so they shouldn't be able to pass any 1 loss teams that do.

[S.PadreIsl.Sooner]

Probably all the way to #1 if the NCAA gets their way.

[oudivesherpa]

Assuming (we all know what assume means--***-u-me) that all the other top nine teams win, USC should fall to 10th. Check it out late Sunday night when the polls are realsed.

[badger]

Assuming (we all know what assume--***-u-me) that all the other top nine teams win, USC should fall to 9th. Check it out late Sunday night when the polls are realsed.

Where do you have Bama and UGA ranked? One of them has to lose :D

[The Maestro]

I bet Petey takes a beating Saturday...it's what the media does. They abandon you as soon as you fail. Plus, look at the last few years losses for USC. I'd love to find out what the spreads were on these games.

Oregon State, 2008 - 25 1/2 point favorite
Oregon, 2007 - not sure, but a tough team
Stanford, 2007 - 41 point favorite
UCLA, 2006 - I assume USC was at least a 20 point favorite
Oregon State, 2006 - same thing

So of their last five losses, is Oregon, 2007 the only team to finish in the top 25?

[oudivesherpa]

Where do you have Bama and UGA ranked? One of them has to lose :D

I thought Bama was 10th?

[85sooners]

f usc they can all suck it!!

[badger]

I thought Bama was 10th?

Ok, so they're 8th in one and 10th in the other. :)

[Jason White's Third Knee]

They should be ranked quite low. I would say around 20th. They were handled last night and it could have been a lot uglier. The score was a lot closer than the game was. They looked very outmatched.

[rainiersooner]

I say 11th...but I also think they could lose another two games in conf play.

[Rock Hard Corn Frog]

Hopefully, it won't matter any more. If USC wins out, they would still end up behind any 1 loss SEC or big12 team and any undefeated big10 team. Last year was the only year a 2-loss team got into the title game, so the odds are there will be enough undefeated or 1-loss teams to fill the slots. 'SC doesn't have a ranked team left on their schedule, so they shouldn't be able to pass any 1 loss teams that do.

I agree. The best they can hope for is to win out and Ohio St win out. With the Pac-10 looking so bad even if they run the table and somehow got to #2 in the polls I think the computers will rank them lower. If Ohio St drops a couple more games than USC is playing for a spot in the Rose bowl, period.

[shaun4411]

Remember this is USC were talking about..I'd be surprised if they fall out of the top 10

exactly. they wont allow usc to lose and be out of the picture. theyll probably be between 7-9. there is so much of the season left that if they win out, they have a good shot at the title game. pending a couple other top 5 teams lose of course.

[JLEW1818]

If they stay in the top 10, its complete bull ****.

[KingBarry]

If we could rank them today, in other words before any other teams play, USC should be about 7th-8th, IMO. Below the two best Big XII teams, and the two or three best SEC teams. There may be another team from another conference that should be in there, so

I can't easily see the Top 25 list from this screne, so I am going from (hazy) memory.

I don't buy it that just because USC lost a game they should fall below all of the undefeateds. Oklahoma, Missour and Texas will all have to play each other, and I don't have a problems with SC being ahead of one of those.

The same is true for all those highly-ranked SEC teams.

If USC wins out, they will go into the bowls in the top 5, end of story. If they lose again, they'll fade from view.

I'm OK with that.

[JLEW1818]

Updated

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/bowls/predictions

[Boomer.....]

They shouldn't be in the Top 10 with as weak as the Pac-10 is and that everyone choke on national television but SUC, being the media darlings that they are, will probably be around 7 or 8.

[Laelaface]

Updated

http://www.sportsline.com/collegefootball/bowls/predictions

Nice!:D

[stoopified]

Straight to Hell. :D

[sendbaht]

"I say right above Ohio State. So right at about 12. But who really cares?"


12 would be perfect and then one more loss and out of the top 20.... love it!

[Flagstaffsooner]

Assuming (we all know what assume means--***-u-me) that all the other top nine teams win, USC should fall to 10th. Check it out late Sunday night when the polls are realsed.Polls come out by 3 or 4PM EDT noob.:rolleyes:

[chad]

"I say right above Ohio State. So right at about 12. But who really cares?"


12 would be perfect and then one more loss and out of the top 20.... love it!
12 sounds about right, assuming only one other top 10 team loses. They'd have to be below penn state (penn st beat oregon st), but above OSU. Figure in Alabama or Georgia who would be a "better" one loss team than them and #12 is the spot.

All that matters is that we continue to win.
Hopefully the players ignore these polls and everything else that we obsess on.

[Sirus]

just saw this on ESPN's site :

USC might fall out of the top-10: If it seems like the media fell out of love with USC and quickly into hate, that's because media folk don't like looking foolish -- BEST USC TEAM EVER! -- and they will feed from the schadenfreude of a college football nation that's been suffering USC Exhaustion for a few years now. There will be widespread speculation over whether the Trojans can play their way back into the national title hunt. So activist voters will try to make it hard for that to happen.:eek:

[Jacie]

SUC as a team may have gotten worse after three games. Their top CB, Wright, is out for 5 or 6 weeks. During the last game DL Mauluga ("the heart and soul of USC") had to come out at the end and Sanchez looked gimpy when he wasn't running for his life. McKnight, supposed to be their best RB, couldn't hold on to the ball or do anything with it whenever he did. I am not saying they are going into a tailspin . . . the remaining teams on their schedule don't have the NFL-calibre athletes like they do, but I think they will lose one of these three games:

Arizona (another SUC road game), Cal (at SUC) or (don't laugh) the domers (also at SUC) who are the best of the rest they will face this year.

[Lott's Bandana]

just saw this on ESPN's site :

USC might fall out of the top-10: If it seems like the media fell out of love with USC and quickly into hate, that's because media folk don't like looking foolish -- BEST USC TEAM EVER! -- and they will feed from the schadenfreude of a college football nation that's been suffering USC Exhaustion for a few years now. There will be widespread speculation over whether the Trojans can play their way back into the national title hunt. So activist voters will try to make it hard for that to happen.:eek:

ESPN actually asked the Oregon State coach if SUC could get back into the title game (like they were already automatically there).
I thought, WTF!!?? His team just outplayed SUC and handed them a loss and they ask him that???

What was worse? The Beaver coach said, "Yes."

[BoulderSooner79]

ESPN actually asked the Oregon State coach if SUC could get back into the title game (like they were already automatically there).
I thought, WTF!!?? His team just outplayed SUC and handed them a loss and they ask him that???

What was worse? The Beaver coach said, "Yes."

Sure he said yes - he wants to hype the team he just beat as much as possible.

[crimsonclass]

So how far do the trojans fall?

All the way to the floor!

[Lott's Bandana]

Sure he said yes - he wants to hype the team he just beat as much as possible.

Somehow I hear BS saying, "Well, I don't have anything to say about that, especially since WE just got done beating them. I suppose we could be in the discussion now too."

[Lott's Bandana]

So how far do the trojans fall?

All the way to the floor!

Sometimes they stay where you didn't mean to leave them.:eek:

[josh09]

Id say #12 or #13 ish, thats usually how far #1 teams drop after losing to unranked opponents.

[JLEW1818]

If my life depended on it. I would say after this week, they will be ranked number 11

[JLEW1818]

USC season is not over, just like Clemson season is not over.

[OUthunder]

Knowing the media lovefest with USC, I'll say no further than #4.