Thanks for sharing your rationalizations, but the fact is, LSU won the National Championship in 2003. What the system is now, what it came to be or your opinion of it MATTER NOT ONE BIT. When the season started and ended in 2003 THAT WAS THE SYSTEM. We all played under it and LSU won it on the field. The trophy is in our trophy case. You can stop by and see it any time. It's the same trophy that Pete Caroll so proudly held up last year. He wasn't waving that "other" trophy around . . . now was he?
I suppose that the trophy from the AP declaring the Trojans Champions of College Football in 2003 is a fake.