USC preseason

The expectations are soaring at Southern Cal as the college football season draws closer. The Trojans are finished with their two-year NCAA sanctions and are eligible for the Pac-12 and BCS National Championship game titles. Lane Kiffin’s team might have been the best in the land by the team the season ended a year ago. USC finished 10-2 and their only loss after September was a four-overtime affair against Stanford and Andrew Luck. Southern Cal knocked off Oregon on the road and had it not been for the sanctions, we’d have seen a Trojans-Ducks rematch in the Pac-12 title game. The preseason polls say we’ll get that game this season and USC is a consensus choice to play the SEC champion for the national title. Is USC worth all the hype? TheSportsNotebook previews the Trojans and the rest of the Pac-12 football landscape…