So says Pete Fiutak, in the latest Cavalcade of Whimsy:

10. Nebraska RB Marlon Lucky
The star recruit of a few years ago ripped through a not-that-bad Nevada defense for 233 yards and three touchdowns on 30 carries. Currently the nation’s leading rusher, if Lucky can be a workhorse for the attack, Nebraska, with its potential in the passing game, will be unstoppable. That’s why if the Huskers can get by Wake Forest, it’s important to take a good, hard look at at the September 15th date against …

9. USC
Be very, very careful before you just hand the Trojans the national title. If the team that snoozed its way through the 38-10 win over Idaho shows up two weeks from now in Lincoln, it’s not only going to lose, it’s going to get flattened. Call it a sixth sense, women’s intuition, or the burrito I just ate, but I’m starting to think this is a potentially special Husker team, and I didn’t see “it” in USC. Against the Vandals, that looked like a team that’s spent a few months reading about how good it is, and now it has two weeks off. That’s not a positive.

We don’t really see how two weeks off is a bad thing (and anyway it’s only one week off, right?), but other than that we’ll consider ourselves duly warned. And speaking of USC/Nebraska-related whimsy …