Interesting "rivalry" note......

[tman]

https://www.thestate.com/sports/coll...222573285.html

Was USC’s season a disappointment? Or were expectations set too high?

[tman]

^ "Perhaps history will be kinder, and the lofty expectations will recede as time passes. The three 11-win teams in a row from 2011 were at the time often looked at as a missed chance considering none produced an SEC East title, but that part of it seems to have waned.


In the end, it’s hard not to see 2018 as a disappointment of sorts, but not one quite so severe as the preseason expectations would say."