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- Updated: May 18, 2016
7:14 PM ET
All fans can look at their teams’ schedules and identify the stretches that will likely determine whether the season will be a success.
That’s our objective as we examine the schedules of all Pac-12 teams and attempt to identify the toughest two-to-four-game stretches of 2016 for each club.
Up next: The USC Trojans
Toughest stretch: September, October, November (pretty much all year)
Why: The Trojans have the toughest schedule in the country, according to ESPN’s FPI metrics. So can we just say Week 1 through Week 13 and call it a day? But that would make for a boring post (even though it’s pretty much true).
There are multiple pitfalls along the way for USC in 2016, including a November slate that features four-consecutive games against Oregon, at Washington, at UCLA and home to Notre Dame to close out the season. Those are likely to be four Top 25 teams. That’s as tough a November as you’ll see in college football.
However, I’m going to go the …
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