According to the Omaha World Herald, the smack talking has commenced.

The next opponent on USC’s football schedule is Nebraska.

To Trojan center Ryan Kalil, it could just as well be “Anybody State.”

That’s not a knock on the Huskers, the All-America candidate said. But after winning 46 of the past 48 games, that’s how USC operates.

“We’ve become accustomed to not really caring who we play,” Kalil said. “We worry about ourselves and what we do.”

USC made a statement of similar sorts in their Saturday opener by pounding Arkansas 50-14. After an open date this week, USC takes on Nebraska in Los Angeles on Sept. 16.

Before the Huskers can concentrate on handing Kalil his words, the squad must line up against the Colonels of Nicholls State, a I-AA opponent out of the Southland Conference. Nicholls beat Southern Arkansas 35-0 in their season opener.