Ben's CFB Top Ten: Penn State, LSU, USC Make Up Middle Tier
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00:02 All right, five through seven right now or seven through five as we go up the order
00:07 in Ben's preseason top ten.
00:09 Checking in at number seven in the country, a team I am incredibly high on
00:14 this season from Happy Valley, Pennsylvania State College as it is known
00:18 on a map, it's the Penn State Nittany Lions at number seven in the country.
00:22 Six, LSU, the Bayou Bengals in year number two for Brian Kelly.
00:27 And at fifth overall, Kevin, that would be the Trojans of Southern California.
00:31 Kev, your reaction to five through seven here in Ben's preseason top ten.
00:35 >> So if you had to guess, right?
00:39 If you had to guess, if I told you I wanna talk about the USC ranking, and
00:44 I had an issue with the USC ranking, you'd probably think, here he goes again.
00:49 It's Caleb Williams and it's too much.
00:51 I think I hate this USC team.
00:55 I don't like them at all.
00:57 I'm really worried about what they're going to be.
01:01 First of all, the whole Heisman repeat, yeah, it doesn't happen, right?
01:06 It doesn't happen.
01:07 And USC schedule, I think, relatively speaking, Ben fell favorably.
01:12 And it's a big part of the reason I think why their status as Pac-12 favorites
01:16 is fine.
01:17 But their defense was one of the absolute dead worst in college football.
01:22 Full stop, not of a contender, not of a power fight.
01:25 They had one of the worst defenses in all of college football,
01:28 despite having one of the greatest turnover margins we've ever seen
01:32 in the history of this sport.
01:35 And I know it's insane to worry about an offense that's gonna have Lincoln,
01:38 Riley, and Caleb Williams at the helm.
01:41 But I don't love the offensive line.
01:44 Jordan Addison is a loss.
01:46 It's like, we can say that.
01:48 We can acknowledge that that's true, because it is true.
01:51 It's not saying that USC is gonna only win seven games, right?
01:55 But it's relative.
01:56 They rank top five for you.
01:57 They rank top five for a lot of people.
02:01 Listen, this is not a USC team that I will be pushing into a college football
02:05 playoff.
02:06 And it's a USC team that if they didn't get the favorable draw that I do think
02:10 they got within the Pac-12, I could see them really, really struggling this
02:14 season.
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