Winning the East last year (and beating RWS's team) qualifies them as "decent".
Add a QB to that team (i.e. Lattimore, Jeffrey, Ingram, Taylor, Sanders, Gilmore, Clowney), and they would be serious.
Just because they beat my team last year doesn't mean they're decent. Alabama shouldn't have lost to them. Case in point, they went out and lost to KENTUCKY the very next week. Other than beating Alabama, USCe did not beat a worth a shit team last season. UF may be an arguable win, but last year UF's biggest accomplishment was beating a 7-6 Penn State in the Outback Bowl. Believe me, I should be pumping them up to be world beaters last year since they beat Alabama, remember? They just weren't all that great. Alabama should have punked them just like AU and Arky did. Last season qualified them as a middle of the pack team that found some luck.
They are averaging 7 wins a year. They're averaging middle of the pack in the
SECE. That's 6 years into Spurrier's term. The scary thing is, last year may have been their peak. The deal with them EVERY year is "Well, they just need this piece of the puzzle." Or that piece of the puzzle. They've needed a QB for 3 years. It's not like Garcia all of a sudden started sucking. Arkansas, UF, Clemson, and possibly UT will beat them this season.