This is the National Championship for the USC of the East. This is like Stony Brook playing SU, or Colgate playing SU, or Akron playing SU. Your stuck in a sh!tty conference, you expanded your stadium so that it would look even emptier on ESPN 3, your former coach has now been proven to be a complete douche to the rest of the nation, you had 1 decent year in your entire history, and despite inventing the sport it took over 100 years to actually learn how to be marginally successful at it; for 1 year.
Loser teams like USC of the east go into these games knowing this is their shining moment. They aren't playing a 1 - 2 team in absolute turmoil, they're playing an SEC team. If your dyslexic Arkansas is really 2 - 1 AND an SEC team. This is the biggest game in their history, if they win they can talk about this game for the next 10 years. By that time they will have another successful season and they'll be able to talk about their 3rd place finish in the Patriot League.
We are probably just jealous though. This year we are playing two terrible B10 teams plus USC and we know USC sucks because they aren't in the SEC.