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USC No. 1 from start to finish in AP pollBy RALPH D. RUSSOAP Sports Writer MIAMI (AP) -- Southern California joined some elite company with its latest AP national title. The Trojans became just the second team to go No. 1 wire-to-wire in The Associated Press Top 25, and the 10th team to repeat as national champs.Following a resounding 55-19 victory over Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, USC received all but three first-place votes early Wednesday to easily outdistance Auburn.The Trojans (13-0) are the first back-to-back AP champs since Nebraska in 1994-95."I know right now I'm in the middle of...

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The best way to reach the Orange Bowl and play for a national title is to go undefeated. The new scaled-down Bowl Championship Series standings are set to debut on Monday with seven unbeaten teams remaining after a week that began with twice that many. While last season proved that one loss doesn't eliminate a team from the national title chase -- co-champions Southern California and LSU lost one -- at this point the teams with one loss need help and can't complain if they're stuck behind the unbeatens in the BCS standings. ``I don't even know how they figure...

The new BCS formula isn't quite as simple as advertised, but it is simpler, and for that the Division I-A commissioners should be congratulated. The simplest solution would have been to use the ranking of the teams in each poll. Instead, the commissioners chose precision over simplicity. The percentage of votes that a team receives in each poll, and not simply its ranking, will be that team's score in the BCS standings. Here's how it works: in The Associated Press media poll there are 1625 possible points. The percentage of that amount will be a team's AP score in the...

Got their butts kicked by Virginia Tech(themselves recently exposed as overrated) 31-7. That should shut up for a few days the orange blowhard bandwagoning fullofthemselves thugimage rapcrap pullyourpantsup snoopyappiyap loudmouth elements of the Cane fans. OBTW, nice sore loser cheap shots by the Miami bench late in the game after the interception. Spare me the baloney about how this is the "new" "cleaned up" Miami. They sure looked like the heavily penalized, trash talking, thuggish, gang bums of old, mixing it up after practically every play in the final 4 minutes. Think I'm piling on? Watch media favorite Miami hardly...

The ACC announced Tuesday that a vote for expansion might not occur until later this month, but regardless of the outcome the Big East is going to be proactive about its future and pursue a 16-team league, a source told ESPN.com. At least one source close to the Big East said the conference wouldn't stand idle waiting to get raided again by the ACC or another league. The source said the Big East cannot remain a fractured 14-team league in basketball and eight teams in football. The financial issues would still be divisive if the league remained as is even...