Sure, they could be the next USC in theory... But so could UTSA or UAB by those arguments. It's like arguing that Georgia St is just Georgia...but with better geography.

I think that's a pretty over optimistic comparison. And if you're going to strain the bounds of credulity by going THAT far outside the realm of anything likely when considering the positive? Then you need to do the same in the negative.

The downside is Temple, a private school in a good area that was terrible, overshadowed by other schools in their state and was eventually kicked out of their AQ conference because they were so bad