re: USC - 2003 National Championship

Gotta love the entitled liberal AP that thinks they are above rules….

Well if ESPN showed it, this must be true.

Yes

The AP was under the umbrella of the BCS. That was known going into the season. They decided to remove themselves later. It didn’t make any sense.

No
Fusc I will never forget! Hope we curb stomp them in Vegas in 2 years

Should be "alleged national championship"

Never happened. AP didn't determine the NC, PERIOD. Why dimwits try to claim this lie is beyond me.

Pete Carroll was selling a counterfeit championship and throwing himself on the court of sob stories. Classless then and still classless today.

No. Its the only reason I hate them. Since the BCS era began, National Champs were crowned on the field. But for some reason USC thinks they're special and get to crown themselves NCs for that year because the Media thought they were better than LSU. Frick em. Where's the crystal football? BR.

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Am I the only one that is triggered by this statement every time it is shown?

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What realy annoys me about that whole thing is that people seemingly just ignore the fact that the AP was simply a part of the BCS whole that everyone agreed to beforehand. It'd be no different whatsoever than if the colley matrix or jeff sagarin computer poll or harris poll had voted someone else #1. It's completely and totally irrelevant. All teams agreed to abide by teh BCS system, which is to say that the polls/computers wuld do their thing and spit out a ranking, and the #1 vs #2 team would play in the BCS national title game, wiht the winner being the namtional champion. That was it, that was the system. That system produced a NCG in which LSu won, so there is no debate, no discussion, no controversy. They are the chamipon. Period.

The AP poll going against the grain and letting themselves know how important they are doesn't facotr into the euation at all. And it was so ridiculous that the very next year the powers that be said "hey AP, thanks for everythign but we're replacing you with the harris poll. See ya". From 204-2013 prior to the playoffs, the AP poll has LITERALLY meant as much in determing a national champion as the AJC, or the times picayune, or the WG_Dawg personal opinion poll.