re: LSU hate towards USC

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Yes. It wasn't LSU fans upset about who they played but rather waiting 45 years for a national title and then everyone forgetting LSU won it when USC was going for their 3rd straight.

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Exactly!!! I'm over it now, but I admit that it took awhile. What infuriated me was that the media was so damned adamant in their self-righteous protests that they created the perception that LSU were illegitimate champions. In one case, a newspaper columnist, less than two years later, even forgot that LSU had made it into the game.

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this time, the angst might involve more than one team, as was the case the past two years when Auburn and LSU, respectively, were left out of the big game.

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Now please don't e-mail this guy, as this article is more than three years old. If I had been posting on the Rant at the time I would have certainly posted it and called for him to be flooded. But I e-mailed him at the time and ripped him pretty good and to his credit, he responded and was very contrite and admitted he had done a bad job and dropped the ball.

The only reason I'm posting this article now is to illustrate just how buried LSU's championship was when a newspaper columnist prints a piece about them being left out of the championship game less than two years after being in and winning that game.

Texas beating USC was absolutely HUGE in helping to turn that tide a little bit. Now that we won again last year and became the first team to have two crystal balls, all is pretty much well.