[LibertarianInExile]

Give me a f'in break. Anti West-Coast bias? The PAC is such a candyass football conference Michael Jackson stalks Tom Hansen. Your alumni writers have been puffing PAC teams up the AP polls since Warren Harding was president. I'm sorry, but USC deserves the national championship for one sport, competitive whining. Quit the BCS and go back to playing in your flower bowl and those oh-so-tough WAC-only cross-conference schedules, and make those of us who would prefer to go a whole season without listening to Keith Jackson smooching PAC hiney happy.

[raptor29]

"Your alumni writers have been puffing PAC teams up the AP polls since Warren Harding was president".

2003 is now the fifth time (1954,1974,1978,1991,2003) a Pac-10 school has won a split national title in football. And 2003 is the FIRST TIME they won the AP poll in those five title years. Each of the other four, the Coaches (who generally know better) voted the Pac-10 team #1, while the writers voted some other team #1, such as in 1978, when USC and Alabama both finished 12-1, USC played Alabama that year, in Alabama, and kicked their ass 24-14, I believe. They were up 24-0 at one point. Facts to a liberal (and many times, to a libertarian) can be problematic.

[raptor29]

Also, USC received a robust 48 of the 65 first place votes in the AP poll. Lotta Trojan journalism grads out there, all over the country.

[D Rider]

...The PAC is such a candyass football conference...

Up in WaSU, we found Bevo to be a little lean. But tasty, when prepared correctly!

So much for the BCS ranking of #5.