USC has had 37 players drafted including 9 first round picks.

The next closest teams are Ohio State and LSU with 25. OSU had 10 first rounders and LSU had 7.

They've had 48% more draft picks than the next two teams on the list.

We get them in South Bend with a talented, deep roster, off a bye week (of course, they have one, too) and with them breaking in a new QB.

In 2010, we'll probably be even deeper and more talented, but Corp will be seasoned and we all know how tough USC is in the Coliseum in November.

In 2011, Crist will be the QB, and the transition may or may not be seamless.

It would be really, really nice to beat them when they're still on top. SoCal lost to ND for a long, long time, and only managed to win once things started to slide for the Irish. I'd like to one-up them.

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But given that USC's admissions office will never do to that recruiting juggernaught what Monk did to Holtz, I'm not holding my breath.

More likely Carroll will be like Bowden, finishing in the top five for a ridiculous number of years in a row.

He righted the ship in a couple of years, hit the pinnacle with an undefeated season and NC, then had a string of seasons where every year there was at least one embarrassing loss to a lesser team.

the fact that McCoy, Gresham, Bradford, Tebow, Spikes, etc., stayed for another year.

But that is kind of quirky.

No one would argue that Smith isn't one of the best coaches in the history of college basketball. Still, there's a decent argument that he should have done more with all the talent he had.

featured the fewest 1st round picks in BCS history. Sort of a quirky little fact.

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but you could argue that the Trojans have underachieved since losing to Texas in the 2005 title game.

And their draft results the last two years:

SOUTHERN CAL (23-3)
1st Rd: 7
Total: 21

OKLAHOMA (23-5)
1st Rd: 0
Total: 9

TEXAS (22-4)
1st Rd: 1
Total: 9

*FLORIDA (22-5)
1st Rd: 2
Total: 5

MISSOURI (22-6)
1st Rd: 2
Total: 8

OHIO STATE (21-5)
1st Rd: 3
Total: 8

GEORGIA (21-5)
1st Rd: 2
Total: 10

CINCINNATI (21-6)
1st Rd: 0
Total: 8

VIRGINIA TECH (21-7)
1st Rd: 1
Total: 9

*LOUISIANA ST (20-7)
1st Rd: 2
Total: 13

BOSTON COLLEGE (20-8)
1st Rd: 3
Total: 5

OREGON (19-7)
1st Rd: 1
Total: 9

And guess what our draft profile looked like from 2005 thru 2006?
(19-6)
1
10

And the last two years?
(10-15)
0
5