how do you think USC would do if they were in the SEC?

Answer 1

At least 3 losses a year. Probably stay in the top 25 though.

Answer 2

Football is football. If you take two little weak guys and have them beat on each other for 4 quarters, they are both going to be wore out and tired at the end of a 12 game season. sec guys may be bigger, stronger, etc.. but they can also take the abuse better than a smaller guy. So that arguement doesn't hold water with me. I live in the south and pull for and SEC team, but USC has had a great team for the past 5 years. Who knows if they win as many total games if they are in the SEC, but they would be competitive, and be in the hunt for the SEC title. They would have down years just like any other team. But they are never going to play in the SEC, so just get over it and realize that for the past 5 years they have been the best team in college football. Find another team that has lost a total of 4 games out of there last 60 games, by a total of 12 points. They are the real deal, for right now. People said the same thing when FSU was winning all those games upon joining the ACC, people said the same during the Lou Holtz era at Notre Dame. People hate a winner.

Answer 3

Well not fair question. They would be travelling way to much across the country. But lets us assume that isnt an issue. I think they fit in nicely and would have similiar sucess and pitfalls that the other good teams in the SEC share. I mean yes they will always emberass the bad teams in the SEC. The Kentucky, the Vanderbilt, South Carolina,The Arkansas, the dogs of the SEC. They would compete versus the LSU, Auburn, Florida extremely well just cause of the recruiting and the coaching.
In the SEC they play good defense and with USC offense somewhat explosive like what the Ole ball coach used to have in Florida they would do well enough to fight for that division every year, coming up a game or two short some years while winning the division in other years.

Answer 4

It depends on the year. Conferences, like teams, tend to wax and wane in quality year to year.

Last year I saw the SEC as easily the best, and backed it up with cash in the championship game when the Gators easily beat OSU. I knew also last season that the PAC 10 was a bit overrated.

This year, tho, the Pac 10, not just the Trojans, are loaded. And better than the SEC, which lost around 40 or so players in the NFL draft, the most of any conference.

Easily 6 and maybe even 7 Pac 10 teams this year could go to a bowl, tho USC is still the one to beat. This is not to dis the SEC - still a lot of football factories there, but you can't lose all those great players to the pros and expect to be the same quality this year.

Florida, for instance, will not have the crushing defense they had last year. And LSU, while their D will be super, will drop a notch or two on O. Oh yeah, forget Tennessee. And Fullmer will soon be history.

Answer 5

USC is good, but in the SEC, USC would loose at least 1 or two, maybe upwards of 4 or five games each year. They do what Miami did in the Big East, which is dominate a weak conference. I didn't understand Miami moving to the ACC, where they now have to compete instead of winning championships, and I know USC will never perform in the regular season against the big boys of the SEC or Big Ten. When they do have a big game, they have 3 easy ones beforehand and one after to get ready for it. So, while Notre Dame has a tough game before and after USC, USC can rest, recoup and prepare for Notre Dame. USC's conference is the weakest in the country. They're not even as good as the poor Big East!

Answer 6

I think they would do good perhaps maybe the best, but they will have a tough time, a very good challenge. But, I wouldn't be surprised if they get 2-4 losses a season, considering the fact that they play against many top ranked BCS teams. USC would be the best in my opinion in the ACC, but they will have a tough time, and you might see a few upsets like this pass season Ex. UCLA vs. USC game. ACC is like the Pac-10 competition in football.

If you put everything together USC beat almost every team they played by big margins, but this past season may have been their worst team the last few years, but they were still top ranked, and they were INCONSISTENT.

AND USC recruits one of the best if not THE best in the country. So YES they would be good FOR SURE in any conference/divison, but you can argue about them being the best.

Answer 7

USC will always be good, but if they played in the SEC they would know the taste of defeat alot better. And the guy who said they have recruiting 10X better, i believe part of that is who they are in competition with, a recruit in the south gets offers from Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, LSU not to mention ACC teams like FSU and Miami. A recruit in cali gets offers from USC and doesn't bother looking anywhere else in the region. And last i checked it was Florida who's had 2 #1 recruiting classes in the last 2 years. The SEC kicks *** and we all know it.

Answer 8

IF they were in the SEC, they would not win the entire confrence for about 5 years, currently, the SEC has 2 or 3 championship contenders, LSU, Tennessee, and maybe Auburn. The Pac-10 has not been good exceept for USC in 8 years. All the teams have been at least 3 wins behiend USC so therefore, USC only appears good in their confrence, but would not survive in the SEC, ACC or BIG 10

Answer 9

They are one of the few non SEC teams that I feel would be competitive year in and year out.As a true SEC fan I have great respect for USC and are impressed by them.It would be interesting though,I mean having a schedule facing Tennessee ,LSU,Georgia,Auburn,and Florida. Then you also have Alabama,Arkansas.Teams in the SEC get banged up so much that it doesn't resemble the same team at the beginning of the year.It's a survival of the fittest.

Answer 10

Well, it would all depend on how long they were in the SEC. They would possibly have a winning season if they had some experience playing in the toughest conference in college
football. If it were to be only 1 season, they'd get beat down.

Bob, LSU may have lost some key players but most of their awesome defense is still intact. Matt Flynn is a pretty decent quarterback. He played nearly the entire 2005 Peach Bowl in which LSU beat Miami 40-3.

Answer 11

I agree with Gavin. They would win some. But that conference is clearly survival of the fittest. They would capable of losing at least once or twice a year. Plus, playing in the SEC means recruiting SEC talent , and that I don't think they are capable of.

As far as there defense, with no bias, they are always overrated. They are rarely year in and out one of the toughest D's in the nation.