Teams that are now better than USC, either directly or by the transitive property of college football: Oregon St. Stanford (beat Oregon St.) Penn St. (beat Oregon St.) TCU (beat Stanford, who beat Oregon St., who beat USC) Arizona St. (beat Stanford, who beat Oregon St., who beat USC) Georgia (beat Arizona St., who beat Stanford, who beat Oregon St., who beat USC) UNLV (beat Arizona St., who beat Stanford, who beat Oregon St., who beat USC) Utah (beat UNLV, who beat Arizona St., who beat Stanford, who beat Oregon St., who beat USC) unfortunately that's as far as the chain goes, at least right now.