USC vs. Indiana Preview: Trojans, Under Are Best Bets

Let's talk about a team with two losses. Favor to get their third, it's the USC Trojans playing an Indiana team who very, very upset, as we said, with their ranking. Well, I don't really know what Cignetti's upset about. You start out of conference, North Texas, Howard, Western Kentucky, AKA bye week, bye week, bye week. You play close games against Northwestern, Nebraska, Michigan, and Minnesota. All of those decided by seven or less. You lose to Ohio State. You're old, Rutgers. Congratulations. Are you? That's the entire Indiana resume. There isn't a ranked win on the schedule. There's not a single, there's not a single one. And by the way, that's not the committee hating the Big Ten. There's not, they didn't play UCLA. They haven't played Wisconsin or Iowa. There's not a ranked win on the resume for Indiana. It's a gotta-have-it game for the Hoosiers, but it is also certainly a gotta-have-it game for Lincoln Riley. Yeah, I think Signetti, he may have wanted to take this one off and not go there. Indiana's going to be an extremely interesting case come a month from now. If you ask me, I don't think they should be in the top 12 at all. You just spelled it out. Not one ranked win, awful strength of schedule. They have not even impressed in the games that they have won. If you're actually looking at the numbers and looking at what has been done this year on this schedule through November 14th, Indiana's not fourth. They're not ninth. Their resume is not any better than the team that's 15th or 16th in the country. I get it. They're the defending national champions, and that's the only reason that there's a number nine next to their names. He may have wanted to sit that one out. As far as USC, Kev, it's there. It's there for them. We talked about it two weeks ago. They beat Ohio State. They got Indiana. They got UCLA. If they want to play their way in, it's sitting right in front of them, especially with all everything else going on. I look at this game, just like I've looked at most Big Ten games, as an underplay because I'm not necessarily sure where the offense is coming from. I know USC has a good one. Indiana, one of the best defenses in the country, and their offense has been less than brutal this year. This is a team that only allows 75 yards rushing on the season. They've been fourth nationally in scoring defense at 12 points per game, and they're only scoring 18 points per game in the last four games, although winning some of them. I like the under here. If you look what Indiana has done, 39, 19, 34, and 37 of their last four games combined, USC can score, but I don't think they can score on this defense. I played the Trojans plus the 10 in this spot, minus 120. I think that USC could win this game, and that's not some deep belief in USC. The Hoosiers, in their most recent game, Had two quarterbacks throw 15 passes. I don't know what the Indiana Hoosiers quarterback situation is. Yes, their defense is good. Their running back room is a little bit injured. I don't believe Turbo Richard is supposed to play in this one. USC's team total is 20 and a half. There's a moment I was like, ah, should I play that? I go, if they score 20, it could be enough. So I took the 10 worst case back doors open. I think the Trojans hang here on the road in Bloomington.