re: USC - 2003 National Championship

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NEVER WAS EITHER VOTED FOR AS BEING THE method in determining the champ by all schools/coaches.

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And what you keep ignoring is that that also didn’t happen with the BCS. The Coaches’ POLL did not have the power to unilaterally declare their POLL the only arbiter of the national champions. The agreement you keep referencing was between the AFCA and the BCS in relation to their POLL and their poll alone. The schools weren’t party to that agreement and nowhere in the agreement did the coaches agree that they would no longer recognize the AP poll. Even if they did, they had no such power to do so.

Their agreement in and of itself tells us something about the place of the polls in determining the champion. If the BCS actually rendered the polls irrelevant, there would be no need to enter into an agreement with the Coaches’ POLL. They would have just declared a champion and just ignored the polls. That’s not what happened. They made sure one of the polls crowned their champion because the polls still held weight. The Coaches’ POLL had no power to take weight away from the other one.