re: USC is "back"

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Make the argument for Florida over USC Oklahoma or Texas

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USC beat the Big10 Co-Champs Ohio State (#5) 35-3.

During the regular season, only two teams...Stanford and Oregon State scored more than 10 points on USC.

They lost by 6 points at Corvallis in September when Rey Rey had a mental breakdown of a game and let that little scooter back rush all over him.

I've never seen a team so unable to recover in the polls - so for all you people who claim the voters love USC...they stomped everyone after September and couldn't climb back with one loss...like everyone else. It was like a Scarlett Letter or something.

While Florida lost by 1 point to Ole Miss and was able to climb back doing the same stopping USC did...only advantage was Florida got to play Alabama in the SEC Title game and that put them over the edge. USC had to settle for stomping Notre Dame and UCLA.

Texas - their schedule sucked. And to top it off, they beat Ohio State by 3 points in the Fiesta Bowl...that Ohio State team USC beat by 32 points. And Texas lost to Texas Tech.

Oklahoma lost by the most points of all the teams but I guess they had the "best opponent" loss to Texas. Then cruised in their Big 12 schedule but still giving up points and points.

I think in order of deserve and performance on the field and "eyeball test"...and not, after the fact ranking...this order of deserve and what we saw all the teams do.

1. Florida
2. USC
3. Oklahoma
4. Texas

There is no way OU or UT deserved to be that game over Florida or whatever your argument is.

USC will have 2 losses this year.

Utah and the Ducks

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Bisonduck

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guy is delusion

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Make the argument for Florida over USC Oklahoma or Texas

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Best sos out of the 4.

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During the regular season, only two teams...Stanford and Oregon State scored more than 10 points on USC.

They lost by 6 points at Corvallis in September when Rey Rey had a mental breakdown of a game and let that little scooter back rush all over him.

I've never seen a team so unable to recover in the polls - so for all you people who claim the voters love USC...they stomped everyone after September and couldn't climb back with one loss...like everyone else. It was like a Scarlett Letter or something.

While Florida lost by 1 point to Ole Miss and was able to climb back doing the same stopping USC did...only advantage was Florida got to play Alabama in the SEC Title game and that put them over the edge. USC had to settle for stomping Notre Dame and UCLA.

Texas - their schedule sucked. And to top it off, they beat Ohio State by 3 points in the Fiesta Bowl...that Ohio State team USC beat by 32 points. And Texas lost to Texas Tech.

Oklahoma lost by the most points of all the teams but I guess they had the "best opponent" loss to Texas. Then cruised in their Big 12 schedule but still giving up points and points.

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1. What happened in the bowl games is irrelevant

2. Oklahoma was far and away the most deserving they played far and away the best schedule of all the teams mentioned. They only lost to 11-1 Texas

2. Florida lost to Ole Miss at home which is the "worst loss" of all the teams mentioned.

3. Texas didn't have the strongest schedule but it wasn't much worse than Florida and the only loss was on the road to 11-1 Texas Tech and they had the "best win"

4. USC's schedule was similar to Florida except they had a "better loss".

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The Pac 10 was awful that year. USC had 1-11 Wash St and 0-12 UW had home.

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That's retroactive analysis and not really accurate. So two teams make the conference awful?

And...

USC 12-1
Oregon 10-3
Oregon State 9-4
California 9-4
Arizona 8-5
Two teams at 5-7
One at 4-8
One at 2-11 (Okie State, Baylor, Portland State)
One at 0-12 (BYU, Oklahoma, Notre Dame)

The kind of breakdown you'd expect from a round-robin format.

You really showed your true colors trying to hoodwink the board by dropping the two worst teams in the Pac 10 and claiming them as representatives of the entire conference.

Oh, and here's the SEC...for 2008.

13-1
12-2
10-3
9-4
8-5

7-6
7-6
7-6

5-7
5-7
5-7

4-8 (Southeastern Louisiana, Middle Tennessee, Louisiana Tech) - Yeah, I think UW could have won those too.

SEC records are deceiving with the usually gaggle of rent-a-wins...and even then, it's not even better than the Pac 10 that year.

Back on topic:

I am talking about at the time. This "every voter loves USC" is nonsense. USC was leading the nation in D and smoking their opponents after one early loss in September when they were #1 on the road by 6 points...the kind of loss you used to be able to get away and still climb back atop.

If we were using the Bama eyeball test of today, it would be USC/Oklahoma or USC/Florida.

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Zamoro10

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Before the bowls:
OU 12-1
UF 12-1
USC 11-1
UT 11-1
12 > 11