Florida State (top 3), Penn State, good UCLA team, at a good Hawaii team
No, we have had tougher schedules before. Not to mention Beck's Junior year where we had top 3 USC and Boise St.
Michigan State and Miss St both turned out to be bad teams. Utah and Boise had "once a decade" black swan games where they had many unforced turnovers and bonehead plays, and we still lost. This was not as tough a schedule as previous years, and even the good teams played terrible against us - probably their worst games of the year - and we didn't take advantage.
Go Cougs!!!!!!!!!