And welcome back to the Cover 3 podcast here on CBS Sports. That's Danny

Canal. That's Bud Elliot. That's time for Nelly. I'm Chip Patterson coming to you

live on CBS Sports Network. Fire it up to be with you over the next hour a ton to get into.

The AP top 25 poll will be released in moments.

We will be giving you the update where Big Ten teams stand and some of the big movements

from within the new rankings.

We also have huge games in the big 10 on deck.

Michigan playing host to Texas in the big house

and Matt Rool in Nebraska, squaring off

with Colorado once again.

We're gonna give you that big game breakdown treatment.

But let's begin with those Trojans, because on Sunday night, USC, who we now know has moved up

10 spots from number 23 to number 13 in the new AP top 25 poll made quite a statement and

so Danny I guess what impressed you the most in terms of what you saw from USC the way that it all played out in that win against

LSU. The answer to the unknown was the defense. The defense was what we

weren't sure about like we trusted Lincoln Riley to figure out his quarterback

to be able to put up points offensively.

So it was no surprise there.

The defensive game plan by Danten Lynn the defensive coordinator combined with this new look defense

which looks like it has some dudes combined with outstanding tackling was something we did not know we were going to get and that's why I love the fact that the AP voters said you know what we're not going to just bump them up a few spots. We're going to move them all the way up because now all of a sudden this team I do think gets into that upper tier category of the big 10.

So I am bullish on USC now from what we saw a lot of those question marks were a lot of those questions were answered in that game against LSU which was a really

good challenge for them and they lived up to it.

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