this team is stacked in a big way once again in 2007
USC is loaded this year again this year. They might have loss there fair share of players to the NFL last year, but don't think there down in 2007 at all. USC brings back the most starters and experienced players out of any team in the Top 15. A defensive unit ranked in the Top 25 in 2006 for total defense returns every significant contributor outside of LB Dallas Sartz. Booty will only improve in his second year starter for this team, and there very deep at the RB position.
How can you love there defense with everyone they have coming back this year. Now granted it there schedule isn't the easiest, but surely capable of being in the championship game when it's all said and done.
Actually, USC lost less than their "fair share" to the NFL draft this year. For the first time in five years they did not have a player drafted in the First Round.
(Tho DeWayne Jarrett, the Trojan WR, probably should have been taken by the Chargers, rather than the "alligator arms" receiver from LSU that was taken by them in Round 1. Carolina was so happy they got Jarrett they released Keyshawn Johnson - look for the latter as a talking head on ESPN this season.)
USC has a strange schedule this year - nothing really challeging until almost November. They could relax with all the creampuffs scheduled out of the gate. But look for them to "cream" Stanford, after Harbaugh's dumb comment about Carroll.