Also, you must pray for OSU so that we aren’t forced to spend the second half of the New Years day game wondering what happened to all the Big-10 people. I’d love to see a Bama game or even a Baja Oklahoma rematch, assuming the newest Rhodes Scholar can’t help us sneak in to the title game.

USC is good, but not Top 5, national title level good. Ted was complaining that the Trojans weren’t getting any love for the MNC (and somehow attributing that to other teams being scared), and my point is that they don’t deserve it. Ok, they beat an OSU team without their starting RB at home. That’s really their only accomplishment on the season. They will likely finish 2nd in the 5th or 6th best conference this season. Hardly worthy of national title discussion…

They aren’t that good? Really? Lots of teams “aren’t that good”, but USC isnt one of them. They are easily a top 10 team, and probably a top 5, and headed for a BCS bid in one for or another.

Every argument you make against USC applies to PSU. Last minute gift win against OSU. Close road loss to a team with the same record as Oregon State. Struggles against a mediocre Purdue. But I would never say PSU “isnt that good” because thats stupid. They’re damn good, and the only reason they aren’t in the national title confersation is because of the BCS baggage from OSU which taints the Big Ten.

USC -7
PSU

USC -4
Big 12 opp OK or TX

USC PK
FLA

USC -10
ALA

SKURRRED

USC is getting no love because they aren’t that good. Narrow win against lowly Arizona, loss to Oregon State, come from behind win against Stanford (tied at halftime), close win against a mediocre Cal team. They have an inconsistent offense that is exposed by any team with a good front 7, and a good overall defense that is weak against the inside run. They are tough in LA, but I guarantee none of the other Top 10 teams are particularly scared of the Trojans.

As a Penn State fan I would LOVE to see the Nits take on the Trojans in the Rose Bowl (Go Oregon!). It will be tough in LA, but PSU matches up very well with USC. And unlike OSU and Michigan, PSU plays well in bowls and big games….

USC should be no less than #3.

1. Bama
2. Florida
3. USC
4. Big 12 you’re F’ed because nobody can figure out the impossible riddle and you don’t play defense.

That’s the only correct way to settle this thing. SEC vs. USC. Lets see the SEC talk trash now.

Sagarin has Texas Tech rated #2 in the new computer ranking…do they really look like the #2 team in the nation this Monday morning? So take your Sagarin Rankings and Predictions with a Salt Shaker or two.

That’s the stupidity of the preseason polls, not any sort of vindication of Bama’s schedule. Neither Clemson nor LSU is a top-25 team, nor is Georgia a top-10 team, no matter what the pollsters thought before a game was played.

FWIW, Sagarin’s Predictor ratings would have Florida favored by 11 at a neutral site; the composite rating favors Florida by 1.

As a Tech fan, I was at both the Tech v. Texas and Tech v. Oklahoma games and can report that Oklahoma would beat Texas almost any day of the week and twice on Sunday. Unfortunately for OU, they lose at least one game a year that they should absolutely win – usually this is saved for the Fiesta Bowl but Stoops cashed it in early this year with his inexplicable collapse in the second half of the Red River Rivalry.

On another note, Mack Brown’s media whoring is all that is wrong with the BCS. If his glad handing changes even one vote then it proves that the system is a farce. If I had a vote I would move UT down a slot everytime I saw his face on espn (I might also punish Florida for scheduling Citadel in November and elimate the Big 10 from the top 10 due to Wisconsin’s performance – the entire conference should be punished for such display).