Why Do the Polls Love USC So Much?

So USC has had quite a decade, a great run at it. But not this year! The team has a freshman quarterback and lost eight starters from their defense. I will not lie I hate USC, but how could you not expect them to fall from grace, and this was a perfect year for it. They played well early, but have since just fallen apart. So what happens? They find themselves falling just enough to not make a big stink, but not enough to make it impossible to sneak back into things. I got news for the pollsters, that is just not fair.

So going into a bye week USC finds itself ranked 18. That is right 18. You look at that without thinking and say 'well this is a bad year for them, and now they are 18 now number four in the nation.' Then you look into things and you realize that this is a joke.

They lost early on to an improved, yet still bad Washington team. They then beat Notre Dame almost more because Notre Dame ran out of time as they were making a furious comeback. Then came the big game at Oregon, where they were absolutely destroyed by a score of 47-20. Well alright at least they won next week, albeit against a down Arizona St. squad 14-9. So here comes the game on controversy, in which Stanford literally ran all over USC and dominated them by a score of 55-21.

Where does this put them? 18. What other team could lose two of three (with the one win being against a team that only has two conference wins against the bad Washington teams), with the average score of those games 51-20, and only drop to 18 in the polls?

This is just hilarious that this happens, how they are still ranked is extremely confusing. But hey, the pollsters love them, and maybe if they lose to UCLA or Arizona by 30 points they will drop out of the top 25 altogether.

But probably not.