USC 2nd toughest schedule?

Matt Hayes from the The Sporting News writes about the upcoming SEC football schedule check out this link to read his full explanations, but as usual here is the cliff notes....

The SEC’s non-conference schedules from toughest to weakest:
1. Georgia
2. South Carolina
3. LSU
4. Alabama
5. Tennessee
6. Vanderbilt
7. Mississippi State
8. Auburn
9. Florida
10. Kentucky
11. Arkansas
12. Ole Miss

So this guy has us as having the 2nd toughest schedule in the league and Phil Steele had USC as having the toughest schedule in the nation....I guess bottom line is the schedule is not a cake walk and the Gamecock football team will have to "man-ip" in 09!