...as incredible as that may seem. If there is a fanbase that should have some humility, you would think it would be USCe, but many of them have bought into the idea of SEC superiority. And since they are in the SEC, they tend to look down upon non-SEC teams.

They do not VT seriously at all. So when Clemson comes in and beats the crap out of them, they have trouble handling it, but many of them think that Clemson is really an SEC playing in the ACC (ditto for FSU), so they rationalize it.