Is the joke gratuitous when it's so obvious? Anyway. The College Football FanHouse will be staying up late (for us East Coasters, anyway) for a rare Pac-10 Thursday Night battle between No. 1 USC and Oregon State.
The Pac-10 set the world on fire last week by officially cementing itself as USC and the Nine Dwarfs after not a single Pac-10 team was in the Associated Press top 25 rankings. Except for USC, of course. This caused much consternation and concern that like with 2003, a top-ranked USC would be kept out of the BCS Championship Game in favor of undefeated SEC and Big 12 Champions.
That's all projection for now but unless the Pac-10 situation improves and Ohio State starts performing like a top 10 team again, USC's in desperate need of a great many blowout victories to make its title case. ESPN host Chris Fowler pejoratively calls this cadavering of opponents "style points". I call it demonstrating consistent dominance and evidence of worthy play. Tomato, tomahto, it all goes in the sauce.
Be sure to join the College Football FanHouse crew at 9 p.m. Eastern for what will be a fun live blog. Chat application after the jump. PS - we realize The Office season premiere is on tonight. TiVo it and join us. Do it. Bacardi and cola, do it.
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"Worse, since that fateful January the teams have gone in different directions. Both programs had "repeat" expectations but LSU never came close in 2004 nearly losing their home opener to Oregon State before eventually losing three other games that season. Coach Nick Saban saw the writing on the wall and bolted town for the NFL's Miami Dolphins and the Tigers have been unable to sniff championship football since.
Meanwhile, USC won an outright championship in 2004 and was within 19 seconds of another title in 2005. If not for a stunning upset against UCLA last November they would have appeared in their fourth consecutive championship game. USC's built a lasting legacy beyond 2003's split championship and received a great deal of attention for it. Attention LSU fans have so badly wanted. That dichotomy has only deepened the wound for LSU fans, casting a great many of them further into the anti-USC fever swamps. And so we continue to see childish antics from otherwise rational people."
now that's great journalism.. hahaha.. Get over the love fest with USC and get over the fact they deserved to get left out in 03 for losing to 6-5 Cal. If they end the season and don't have any teams on their schedule in the top 25 again, then they need to get left out again.
And that's *exactly* the kind of mentality I'm referring to. Thanks for playing exactly to description. You are a parody, well done.
USC has not lost to a nonconference team since 2002, yes i agree the pac10 this year is USC and the rest, but hey everytime a team plays USC you know there are going to ready and waiting to be the team to knock them off. USC is going to have to run the table this year to play in the national championship, but I say they can go up against any SEC team and beat them.
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USC lost to OSU, USC lost to OSU!!!
Oh, the wrong OSU... The Buckeye nightmare lives on.
then next team to go down is Georgia, mark it down
Well, Penn State CRUSHED the Beavers, so what does that say about them???
FIGHT ON
Biggest up-set since 1990!!!!!!!!! and USC is NOT over rated, they are where they are for a reason.... YOU GOTTA EARN IT FOLKS!!! Now let the games roll....
everyone thought USC was great but what they fail to realize is they are nothing on the road
Seems this was bound to happen. Just when everyone was convienced that USC was the "Mother of all College Football Teams",they would find a way to prove just how flawed the idea of a Pac-10 team being #1 is. Everyone knew that the "west-10" was soft...well... anyone with a real knowledge of the college football game that is. Maybe all those bandwagon pollsters will realize that Football is more than a Flashy school with a big rep and a weak schedual. Football is and will always be an SEC game and championship to lose.... Just not for now ...or anytime in the near future. Catch up all you Big-10's,Pac-10's,who-ever 12's and any other pretenders. The SEC is by far the BEST College Division there is for football in America. Watch and learn. BTW....Good Game Oregon State.
The SEC is very, very, very good. But the best? We will not know that until they consistently play football in to late November in states where the temp. goes below 65 degrees and possibly get some snow. Until then they are the best warm weather / indoor conference.
The loss to Oregon proves, at least, that USC is not indestructible, nor unbeatable. The Beavers ran wild against a team that has a defense-minded head coach. So, it is time that some team other than USC be anointed as the number one team. It is sad, but true, that college players cannot, in many cases, keep their heads screwed on right for a 12-game season. They either party too much or relax too much when they are not on national TV so that some of the " big " teams fall every year. It may well be that LSU or another team will have the season-long discipline strength to deserve it. Since the coaches now earn $ 1- 5 million per year they certainly have the motivation.Then - there is good ol' Fullmer of Tenessee - a nice guy and very good coach, but always losing to the hard-bitten, hard driving, really mean guy Urban Meyer.
Nobody 5' 6" carries defensive linemen and linebackers like that, something is not right
USC has difficulty playing in Corvallis, lost 3 out of the last 4 games there. Its a great day to be a Beaver!!!
That was effectively our bowl game this year, I fear.