Daily Bruin: USC, Cal Dominate Top-Heavy Pac-10

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Cal-related quote:

While Pete Carroll has built USC into the premier program in the country, the Pac-10 has developed a gap between the good programs and the bad ones. And that gap is still growing. USC has just flattened everybody with superior talent, plain and simple. Meanwhile, Jeff Tedford has quickly turned California into the second-best in the West, and these two schools are running away with the entire Pac-10.

There's no doubt that the success of USC and Cal has increased the national exposure of every other team in the conference. But that exposure isn't always a good thing. It's not good for UCLA to give up over 100 yards to Reggie Bush in the first quarter of a nationally televised game only a couple of weeks after Fresno State almost beat the Trojans at the L.A. Coliseum.  It's not good for Stanford to lose to UC Davis when Cal is winning between 8 and 10 games every year.  Tedford's rise at Berkeley aptly defines the shift in the conference. When he left Oregon as offensive coordinator to become head coach at Cal, he took with him that offensive magic that spits out NFL quarterbacks