Case for South Florida and Virginia over USC, Oregon and Oklahoma?

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USC was supposed to be the unchallenged #1 in the country. They have played an unimpressive schedule and preformed unimpressively. USF is supposed to be a dumpy Big east school. They have impressive wins vs. accepted good schools, and won impressively against unaccepted "good" schools (like 5-2 elon).

USC might well be the worst 6-1 team in the country while USF might be the best. I have no way of explaining why. By all right USC SHOULD be better by far. Their recruiting pool, facilities, coaching, EVERYTHING is better than USFs. Their talent level is certainly better as well. But so far this year, all that talent has combined for a weak showing vs. nearly every sub-par opponent they've face. How do you beat Arizona by only a TD at home? How does ANY "good" team lose to Stanford at home? It is ludicrous to rank them ahead of USF.

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There is a simple explanation. Injuries. Thats it.

VS Idaho W 38-10}
VS Neb W 49-31} HEALTHY
VS WSU W 47-13}

VS UW W 27-24}
VS Stan L 24-23} INJURED
VS AZ W 20-13}

VS ND W 38-0} ALMOST-HEALTHY