re: I forgot how much I hate USC

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The BCS era ended split championships.

You wouldn’t recognize a differing AP #1 as champion under the CFP system so logically you shouldn’t under the BCS system.

That’s why we started the BCS in the first place. Some of you are so daft when it comes to this.

The only reason anyone gave the AP poll any credence in 2003 was because the AP poll was the benchmark for many years up until just 5 years prior to 2003, so people were so used to the AP poll being relevant. Now that we’ve been under the BCS and CFP system for so many years people have gotten over that

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It was supposed to end them by including the two polls whose National Champion declarations were most respected. It did not just include the Coaches poll but the AP as well despite the fact that the Coach's trophy was the agreed upon BCS trophy (a single organization isn't going to give out two trophies for the same thing). The hope was that this would guarantee unanimity between them by including them both. It is a canard that whatever credibility the AP had in 2003 was purely residual. They were a part of the BCS ranking! But this was one of the fundamental flaws of the system. The AP was still free to distribute their trophy despite agreeing to be part of the BCS ranking which meant that they could go off the reservation whenever they wanted to. And in 2003 they did.

The only way the BCS could have ever truly eliminated a split title would have been to get AP to fold its TROPHY, and not merely its poll, into the BCS. They should have created a brand new trophy and had both the Coach's and AP sign off on it. It's weird that it comes down to trophies but it kind of did.

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Whether or not you give it credit or not doesnt change the fact that it was a very real title, very well recognized and legitimate and since the NCAA didn't and doesn't crown a football champion

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Wow talk about a swing and a miss