USC is 6-0, and that’s better than being 5-1 with the season basically being over. It would have been over if the Trojans had lost to Arizona. Let’s be real: USC is highly unlikely to beat both Washington and Oregon. The Trojans would do really well just to split those two games. Giving away a game to Arizona — which USC very nearly did — would have basically put USC in a position where the Trojans would have been unlikely to make the Pac-12 Championship Game.
Not making the Pac-12 title game this year would be a clear and unmitigated disaster.
Even with the win and the 6-0 record, USC isn’t fooling anyone. The Trojans are not convincing experts that they are an elite team.
They aren’t.
They have the potential to be elite, but they aren’t playing like it. That’s on the coaches. Let’s go through yet another report card in which the grades aren’t good.
This time, they’re even worse than they were against Colorado and Arizona State.
Let’s open up the envelope and hand out some (very bad) grades to the Trojans: