Ohio St. and LSU have better competition on their remaining games than USC. Unfortunately for USC, their schedule looked a lot tougher on paper in the beginning of the year than how it turned out. Despite that, USC SOS is tough but OSU has a tougher schedule and I am not sure about LSU. I do know LSU has not played a tough schedule up to this point in the season.
Ohio St. is the real threat to jump USC because of their SOS and COMPUTER POLLS. USC is ahead in human polls. USC might get quality win points if WSU wins out and finishes in top 10 BCS. Ohio St. will not beat a team ranked in the final top 10 BCS. It will be very close with USC and OSU, and i prob. have to give OSU the edge if they win out. However i do not think they can, and I bet $500 on Purdue +3.5 over OSU.
Pac 10 is a lot tougher than people give it credit for. Take a look on who the pac 10 plays for OOC games throughout the years. Look at the results. Not only do pac 10 teams play tougher OOC opponents than other conferences, they also do fairly well too.
LSU i do not "think" can pass USC if they win out. Ohio St. i think they can pass USC if they win out and are #3 in both polls.
Now i agree with the human polls. USC clearly is the 2nd best team in the nation. LSU and Ohio St. are not in USC league. USC can beat OU, LSU small chance, Ohio St. can't (unless they get 5 turnovers and best player on OU gets injured and blown calls by refs). That is my opinion.
We will see how good LSU is because so far this year they have not impressed me at all. Against Georgia (quality opponent), they got totally out-played. Georgia clearly was the better team on the field and Georgia beat themselves. I watched the whole game. LSU SOS at this point is not good at all, but that will change in next 3 weeks in where their SOS will get better.
Ohio St. also has not impressed me at all to be considered #2 in the country. Beating PURDUE and MICHIGAN will impress me, especially if they beat them soundly.
USC plays Arizona (bad team), UCLA (average team with good talent), Oregon St. (average/good team with good talent)
USC blew WSU out, so WSU did not give game away. USC played backups in 4th quarter, so not sure how you could give game away when playing reserves and going vanilla in the 4th.
FIGHT ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!