I admit, I scoffed when Pete Carroll suggested the Pac-10 would be a difficult road to hoe. Obviously, Carroll knew something about his team that I didn’t.
The fallout of Oregon State’s shocking 27-21 win over the highly-touted USC Trojans will have more ripple effects than a two-ton boulder dropped in a placid lake. [...]

As USC gets ready to leave the confines of the Los Angeles for the first time this season, Pete Carroll is warning his team and the anyone else that will listen that USC’s Pac-10 schedule is “ridiculously difficult.” Essentially, Carroll is trying to get his team in the mindset to avoid any Stanford-style upsets. [...]