re: Matt Leinart on '03

https://onepeat.com/

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Said that if USC had gotten to play LSU, they would have "whipped LSU's A-S-S.

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There is a better chance that life began on Mars. That LSU squad was not gonna be denied.

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Matt Leinart

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Biotch

It would have been an interesting game for sure. You would have had the nation's top scoring defense against one of the best offensive teams in the country. LSU's front was very dominating with Marcus Spears, Chad Lavalais and Marquise Hill, very good LB's and an elite secondary with Webster & Co.

USC had a very good defense with Cushing and the LB's who were elite as well. The USC offense was just coming into its own with Leinart, Bush and Lendale White. LSU had the freshman duo of Broussard and Vincent who at the time were playing lights out and Michael Clayton who was playing at another level.

I think it would have been a game for the ages. Too bad the BCS computers screwed up....if I remember correctly it all hinged on a game being played out in Hawaii on the night of the SECCG

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there were never any recruiting issues brought up by the NCAA

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University of Southern California athletics scandal

Probes by both USC and the NCAA found that football star Reggie Bush, the 2005 Heisman Trophy winner, and basketball star O. J. Mayo had effectively forfeited their amateur status (in Mayo's case, before he ever played a game for USC) by accepting gifts from agents.

Punishment[edit]

As a result of sanctions issued by both USC and the NCAA, the Trojan athletic program received some of the harshest penalties ever meted out to a Division 1 program. The football team was forced to vacate the final two wins of its 2004 national championship season, as well as all of its wins in 2005. It was also banned from bowl games in both 2010 and 2011 and was docked 30 scholarships over three years. The basketball team gave up all of its wins from the 2007-08 season and sat out postseason play in 2010. The NCAA accepted USC's earlier elimination of its wins between November 2006 and May 2009 and did not sanction the team further.[1]

Shortly after the NCAA handed out its penalties, the Football Writers Association of America announced it would no longer recognize the Trojans as its 2004 national champion.[5] In June 2011, the Bowl Championship Series stripped the Trojans of the 2004 BCS title (leaving Ohio State as the only non-Southern school with a BCS title), though the Associated Press still recognizes the Trojans as its national champions for 2004.

Bush is the first person in the Heisman Trophy's history to give his trophy back to the Heisman Trust, and the 2005 season is the only one in the award's history for which there is no winner.

What a surprise …The ESPN 30 for 30 Trojan War piece was totally misleading in using terms like “three-peat” and “dynasty” in referring to USC’s national championship runs in the BCS era (starting in 2003). Once I heard about this alleged 2003 championship, I was suspicious of everything else included in this piece.

lets make these old frickers play a game.

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Get over it. It was a split title, and of course they are going to claim it

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The 30 for 30 mentioned nothing about a split title or LSU. They just said USC won the national championship

They did win the national championship

It was a story about usc, not lsu

Yall complain about the silliest things

I wanted to play those hollywood pussies so bad. Would have abused them
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Were you a member of the team?

What school wouldn't claim the AP title?