USC fans are excited about this season. And so is Coach Gobrecht: "This is potentially the best team that I've had at USC."

The Trojans are only 1-2 so far. They lost a close one at the Pit, and they got beat pretty bad by my Gophers in the Bahamas. But they're not discouraged.

"Well, I think that when you go and play a tough game, it just makes you have a much more realistic view of where you are as a team," Gobrecht said. "And then by the time you get to Pac-10, there isn't anything you haven't seen yet. And that's the way you want to feel. You want to feel like, 'OK, whatever happens now, we've seen it, we've done it, we're OK.'