>SC beat Big 10 teams the past two years<
That's supposed to mean something?
Yeah -- it means this isn't a "conference" thing. You had two outstanding, undefeated teams. The played a helluva game and one came out on top. The suggestion that USC lost because their opponent wasn't in the Pac 10 is BS. If USC's status were merely the result of a weak conference, as he is suggesting, they wouldn't have won the last 2 years in non-conference games and national championship games and they wouldn't have lost by a mere 3 points in a game that could have easily gone the other way.