The Star-Telegram has a nice treatment of what’s shaping up to be a brutal road schedule for the Trojans:

Two weeks into the season, the Pacific-10 Conference has earned plenty of woooooo-eeeeeee’s. The Left Coast League is the second-best only to the Southeastern Conference.

The conference went 7-0 Saturday. The only loss of Week 2 was Oregon State’s stumble at Cincinnati on Thursday.

Top-ranked USC was idle. The Trojans play at Nebraska on Saturday, but it’s becoming evident their road to a national championship will be long and bumpy because of the competition in the Pac-10.

Two of USC’s road games will be at Washington (Sept. 29) and at Oregon (Oct. 27). While Cal and UCLA have been considered as “circle the calendar” games, the Huskies and the Ducks proved Saturday they’re worth the worry.

Plus, we’ve got that October trip to South Bend … oh wait, never mind.

Actually, given the developments of the past two weeks, you can make a case that the Pac-10 does stack up to the vaunted SEC. Now that Auburn, Georgia and Tennessee have had their pants pulled down, we can see that there are only two really good teams in that conference and ten teams that are no different than any other conference.