Utah is running wild over a truly bad conference. Maybe USC can pause the descent for a time. If you have watched football for a while, you would admit the pac has not been even a shadow of what it once was for over 20 years.
Utah is not better, BYU is certainly not better. It is the PAC that has severely declined. Winning the PAC is hard for PAC teams but is it harder than winning the old WAC with BYU, Utah, and TCU? No. Those were solid teams. The PAC has declined a lot.