No B1G winners: Can USC and UCLA buck the newcomers curse?

[nitramnaed]

No B1G winners: Can USC and UCLA buck the newcomers curse?

Every Big Ten newcomer since 2011 has seen a downturn in football. Will UCLA or USC prove exceptions to the rule?

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[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

Like Nebraska, it’s not like they’re entering as world beaters in the first place …


I don’t expect a decline like Nebraska but I dunno if it is a curse as much as the way things already are.

 

[Pete smith]

USC and Nebraska aren’t even in the same universe as to football. Even though I expect(pick) the Cornsuckers to be 9 - 4 this year. USC would win it all this year in the B1G West.

 

[Word]

USC and Nebraska aren’t even in the same universe as to football. Even though I expect(pick) the Cornsuckers to be 9 - 4 this year. USC would win it all this year in the B1G West.

The USC team that went 4-8 last year?

 

[A_Slab_of_Bacon]

The USC team that went 4-8 last year?

And in the pac….

USC is where high level recruits have gone to vanish for years.

 

[fmlizard]

Buying players will help but at the present moment both USC and UCLA would be 4th-5th place entries in the West. The West put a screeching halt to 100 years of Nebraska football tradition and put it at the bottom of the conference in a few short years.

 

[TruthSeeker]

USC under Riley, will kick a lot of ass, especially with the QB that.followed him.

 

[Word]

USC under Riley, will kick a lot of ass, especially with the QB that.followed him.

Probably but the magic might not happen in year 1 (or 0).