My thoughts as well.
Haha, no. Just having offseason fun. My true feelings on 2003 is that it should have been LSU v USCw. That offseason, Saban said he had no problem with the split championship and started advocating a "plus one" scenario which I guess is what we technically have today.
I can't speak for Bazza, but I resent that. We're more than a bit dumb.
If it had said national champs on the new tag, I would have ordered one with the letters NOT on it.
Kiffin and FAU is going to beat the brakes off UCF next season.
Meh. Oklahoma didn’t deserve to be in that game after KSU waxed them. The AP voted them national champions so I say that is a legitimate claim, but no one voted UCF.
Tubby and Auburn BOT never really pushed it. It was mostly fans and players. I still think no one was beating USC that year, but again Oklahoma got in with an inferior team while still milking the 2000 championship. It’s the biggest reason I can’t stand Oklahoma they get the benefit of the doubt 99% of the time for absolutely no reason.Haha, no. Just having offseason fun. My true feelings on 2003 is that it should have been LSU v USCw. That offseason, Saban said he had no problem with the split championship and started advocating a "plus one" scenario which I guess is what we technically have today.
UCF is acting like Tubberville with the Golf Digest trophy. How's that?
I think that CA has one of those (real one). Maybe he can help. :biggrin2:
Nope. USC won the AP poll. It was a legit claim...
Nope; what’s real is politicians’ understandable desire to avoid unnecessarily making voters mad over petty issues...
Several of you had said this, and I understand where you are coming from. But I do disagree for this reason. Back when they started the BCS, the AP agreed to be a part of the selection process with their poll, and have it is a factor in the final outcome. They were all fine with having the champ come from the BCS game until they disagreed with the selection. So, they took their ball and went home that year, naming their own champ. Had their poll never been a factor at all in the decision, I would be completely ok with them naming their own. But their poll was considered, and their choice didn't win out. So, they cried like a little girl and did their own thing. Easy for them to name a champ that didn't have to beat either Oklahoma or LSU in the championship game, I guess. But for that year, both the AP and USC can stick it. And this is coming from a guy who really doesn't like LSU at all.
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Aww man! You went and brought facts into my perfectly content hatred of the AP. I don't care. Hate them anyway.
No the BCS was 100% wrong that year. It should’ve been USC vs LSU. Oklahoma got blasted in conference championship weekend but got rewarded nonetheless. So I would say since the system forked up 2 champs were the right call.
So, by that philosophy, it is ok for UCF to say the playoff committee got it wrong and they are champs? Is that your contention? That if the existing system doesn't get it right in your opinion, anyone else can lay claim to the title?
It's not really the same thing since USC did not declare themselves champions. The AP, a recognized institution that had been rewarding champions for over a half century, did so.
