re: USC - 2003 National Championship

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So you see, the coaches did NOT vote to have the coaches poll determine the champ. They voted for the BCS game winner to be the champ. Big difference. Which I was saying all along.

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You are not reading those comments in the context of the entire article. “We voted to give the winner of the BCS game #1” means the #1 spot in the poll. The coaches gave “their title” means the Coaches’ Poll title. It’s actually quite telling that it says THEIR title and not THE title. “It makes our poll insignificant” is in the context of the prior sentence which states they only vote on 2-25 with #1 pre-assigned. It just means the part of the poll the coaches get to vote on is diminished because they don’t get to determine the champion of the poll. All Carr was saying is that he would like to vote on the champion but the AFCA agreed to give their #1 to the BCS winner. Every single statement is in the context of the Coaches’ Poll.

You have every right to consider only the BCS champ the true champion in the BCS era. The polls only had authority to the degree to which the public accepted their choice. That was true even before the BCS. In that light, LSU as BCS champion will always be more universally accepted. Somewhere less than 100% but more than 50% will acknowledge USC. I don’t really care. It doesn’t diminish LSU’s title. When there were Co-champions in the poll era, no one ever considered those titles to be half a championship. The banners don’t say co-champions. It’s given just as much weight. I don’t know why LSU fans worry about USC.