re: Silas Redd to USC

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In 01 no one thought that team was super amazing. It is just hindsight because of where their players were drafted.


I've been saying this for years

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Well articles from that time believed they were dominant - that it wouldn't have mattered who Miami played that year...despite the controversy with Oregon/Nebraska...similar to USC in '04. They were touting the talent at that time...

Rarely this past decade has that happened...sportswriters writing that it didn't matter who these two teams played amidst the usual BCS squabble at the end. So these two teams do stand out as BCS controversy busters.

'01 Miami

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In the end, it didn’t matter who lined up on the Rose Bowl’s other sideline. In fact there probably didn’t need to be one. The Rose Bowl people could have used it to display the floats, or store Regis Philbin’s hair gel, or stick the remaining 37 Nebraska residents who weren’t already in the stands.

Because Miami was national champion before it ever got on the plane to come eat beef and visit Disneyland.

The reason the ‘Canes are 2001 national champion is not because they started high in the polls or because their conference doesn’t have a championship, but because roughly five years ago, Butch Davis and Larry Coker began assembling a collection of talent, leadership, depth and balance that by the time this season arrived was unmatched anywhere else in the country.

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- Sports Illustrated

'04 USC

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In dismantling the supposed second-best team in the country 55-19, the USC Trojans left no doubt as to which was the best team in college football this season. If indeed this was the Game of the Century, perhaps Oklahoma can use the next 95 years to catch up.

The great 2005 Orange Bowl was no classic. It was a classic mismatch. The question isn't whether Auburn could have beaten the Trojans, but whether they would have suffered a less embarrassing fate than the Sooners.

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- Sports Illustrated