as much as the next guy……..but I think people ignored the UF-Mich game possibly due to the notion that UF lost 4 Jr’s to the NFL draft the previous year alone and was starting 4 Sophomores and 3 Freshman on Defense against Michigan. I hate to say it, but had those 4 guys not come out early we would probably be on the verge of a 3 peat for Florida this year. Couple that with the Sr. laden team Michigan showed up with and you have Michigan beating Florida. I loved it, but at the end of the day it was a bunch of upper classmen from Michigan beating a bunch of under classmen from Florida.

with “top defense” and the offense of the rest of the conference. I didn’t honestly watch a lot of Pac-10 football outside of USC, so I can’t really say if the offenses were really just bad (from what I saw that’s how it seemed, though).

I did watch plenty of Big 12 football, though, and it is similar to how everyone thinks that the Big 12 has all these top offenses, when if you watch the games it clearly looks like there’s just a lot of terrible defenses.

Of course it is hard to really pick out if the Big 12 receivers are just so good that they are untackleable (by really poor form defensive tacklers who run by their man and try a flying arm tackle of the shins) that they make the defenses look bad in comparson, but again, from watching the games, it looked a lot more like defensive players being out of position, missing their assignments, and incapable of tackling even an undersized high school wideout.

and their QB turned it over 5 times i think. Yes I agree with you that the USC offense has been spotty at times. But I wouldn’t take our defense lightly simply because some of the teams on our schedule were less than competitive.