re: Poll Disagreement /LSU-Florida Football Series/LSU-USuCk

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You're just as bad as the idiots in our fan base who insist on having this penis envy contest with Southern Cal. I don't know which fanbase is more insecure - ours or yours? All of this stems from one lousy split decision five years ago.

LSU and USC haven't played each other in two and a half decades. They likely won't play for three and then some. This "cold war" is a symptom of two fanbases who love to talk up their championships, but conveniently leave out the "dark ages" of recent memory - both schools having had their fair share of misery in the last two decades.

LSU's main dislike for USC should center around the 2006 season when it appeared that USC would finish its end of the season cakewalk with UCLA en route to playing Ohio State in Glendale for the BCS c'ship. LSU, meanwhile, would sit tight after a thrilling win over Arkansas (cue USC fan to remind LSU fan about putting up 70 on the Hogs) and wait to more than likely find out that the Tigers would make a landmark and rare appearance in the Rose Bowl to play the 11-1 Michigan Wolverines. All depended upon USC handling a very marginal Bruin squad and everyone would get what he wanted for Christmas. USC, however, choked on the big (errr, semi-big) stage in front of a national tv audience. Led by the vomit-inducing John David Booty - the third Booty to somehow screw it up for LSU - USC lost to a much weaker UCLA team, thus ending a quest of 16 titles in a row (or two in three years, if you're actually counting) by Pete Carroll. Instead of LSU getting a rare chance to play in the "Granddaddy of 'em all", the Tigers were squeezed out by the squeezed out. LSU would have to settle on going to kick Notre Dame's asses in the Sugar Bowl, while USC took a convenient bump back to the Rose Bowl to once again throttle Lloyd Carr. While LSU and Michigan would have been a terrific matchup and USC and Florida perhaps more terrific, the best settlement for everyone likely would have been for the Rose Bowl to tell Michigan to take a hike and rematch Notre Dame in New Orleans and allow the Tigers and Trojans to once and for all end their cold war and settle it in Pasadena. Once again, just like in New Orleans three years earlier, we'd get nothing doing.

So, USC fans...just when LSU fans seem to finally be getting out of the LSU vs. USC debate, you lure them back in. Yes, Florida stomped on us and nearly sucked the life out of us,

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but we lost to a damn good team. It might have been by 30, but is it worse than losing to 6 win, at best, team in Corvallis, Oregon...in a stadium that might hold 40 K A loss is a loss, but in the polls and for the BCS, it's how you lost - no matter if Florida is worlds better than Oregon State. In any case, LSU and USC are still in the "alive" category for a BCS title shot with one loss. As are Georgia, Florida, Mizzou, and Oklahoma. In fact, the SEC and Big XII have a combined 9 schools who are mathematically alive for a title shot. Compare that with the Pac 10's plethora of one...maybe add in the Big 10's stack of three. I can tell you this, though: If USC does get their shot at the title in January of '09, you'd better make it count. Next in line after Ohio State and Oklahoma, as far as "tired of watching this over and over" are the Trojans. True, USC handles up most of the time in the BCS games, but one more loss - in any year - to a very subpar opponent and the sportswriters and coaches will ensure that USC doesn't climb near the top to get their chance. Also, you need a title game worse than anyone, but maybe the Big 10. The Pac 10 is not a showcase conference from top to bottom...not even from top to top, really. Sitting on your asses and waiting for the SEC and Big XII and ACC to play their conference c'ship games, in hopes you'll move up due to a loss by one of them, is weak. Grab Boise and Fresno and make a 12 team conference and have that c'ship. It'll give you some credibility with the rest of us. It would have saved you in '03.

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THANK YOU!!!

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but we lost to a damn good team. It might have been by 30, but is it worse than losing to 6 win, at best, team in Corvallis, Oregon...in a stadium that might hold 40 K?

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although USC had a loss to an unranked team, they also proved their worth with wins over OSU and Oregon. LSU, on the other hand, really didn't play anyone worth a shite until Florida, where we got blown out. We just don't have a quality victory to show that we weren't just vastly overestimated.

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