Not sure how all this started. Seems there might be a few doubting USC and maybe one certain SC fan pushing some buttons here. He sure is under attack.
I normally only check this site for the invaluable info I can pull. However, in this case, being a left coaster, and having been left out in the rain so long, with no PAC 10 NC since implementation of BCS, nor title game appearance, I am compelled to give scott some support though maybe there's some history here between you all i haven't picked up on.
It's curious to me how mr Hockey can say any non-USC homer will tell you LSU is way better than USC. Hmm, interesting. My first thread stated how SC beat #6 Aub by 24 at Aub and LSU beat #21 Aub by 24 at LSU. Seems pretty even to me based on common opponent. They each have 1 loss. And then there's the polls. Most of us here have always felt with the time difference our teams sometimes get the short end of the stick by writers/pollsters. I mean come on....west games go off late and eastern writers aren't gonna see lots of late west coast games. But this time the polls have USC #2. So what is it? Regional biaz? Here
I'll state a couple examples of how in past i feel it affected polls. Try not to laugh.
I Remember a couple /3 or 4 years back when everybody was so upset that Miami missed out on the NC game to FSU even though if I recall correctly they'd beaten them. Well, best of my recollect, that Miami team had lost to a Washington Huskie team that ended with one loss too. Now if Wash beats Miami and Miami beats FSU...who goes? The way we in the PAC 10, yes the wonderful PAC 10 see it, UW should have gone. But the fact is they were never even considered or mentioned and all you heard was how a Miami team who beat FSU (and who lost to UW) had gotten shafted. As it turned out, FSU got smoked in the big game. I couldn't understand why UW was not even mentioned. Pls don't laugh or start smashing things.
#2......Oregon...Joey Harrington...did the PAC 10 suck that year? One loss. Nebraska...couldn't even win their own conf. Who goes to play Miami? Cornhuskers get smashed. I forget who the Ducks ripped in Fiesta but again....if you live here....you do start to at least wonder when we might get a turn in the big game. And Oregon might have gotten worked by the Canes too, but not any worse than a team that wasn't even conf champs.
So there's the Polls thing Mr Hockey. Writers from all over have the Trojans #2. They haven't alwasy treated UW and Oregon quite as well. Is LSU good? Uh...yeah. as are a whole slew of teams with 1 and 2 losses. But some lost early and some lost (uhoh) late.
So if Scott here is talkin a little too much smack then Scott chill out a bit. And BBK....well man you still have your facts wrong. Now you wanna say let's not talk about the past let's talk present and then you go right off and say how USC lost 2 times in THE PAST 2 years to Big 12, including losing to a 6-6 team, 27-20. And again man, that's absolutely FALSE. They lost to a K ST team that was in Final Top 10 and finished 11-2, not 6-6. So if you wanna beat on USC then get the facts straight.
In the end, there's no playoff. USC wasn't #2 last week. But somebody lost. And who knows what will happen rest of the way.
Maybe somebody else will lose or somebody jumps over someboyd else.
We shall see. But if USC ends up at #2, they are capable of providing more comp than you might imagine. They only have 1 loss too.
