usc trojans can still make the nat'l title game

[hoopster42]

if lsu could back their way in last yr, becoming the first 2 loss team in history to play for the nat'l title, then usc can get there this yr,

1 loss teams have made it several times this decade

and if you're gona lose, its better to lose early, history has shown us this

oklahoma, florida, georgia, mizzu, they all have very tough roads ahead

i'm not convinced that we've heard the last of usc

(not a fan of trojans, just a big big fan of college foots)

[Panic]

Nope.

[JRS21386]

if lsu could back their way in last yr, becoming the first 2 loss team in history to play for the nat'l title, then usc can get there this yr,

1 loss teams have made it several times this decade

and if you're gona lose, its better to lose early, history has shown us this

oklahoma, florida, georgia, mizzu, they all have very tough roads ahead

i'm not convinced that we've heard the last of usc

(not a fan of trojans, just a big big fan of college foots)

Reality check... LSU plays actualy competition!!! USC will not come close to working their way back in... They would have to prove a point with a good team to do that

[I.R.B]

Not after losing to a team that was 1-2 at the time of the lost... Usc will be in a BCS bowl game but no chance they are going to the big show... Maybe Next year...

[MonkeyF0cker]

Nah. That loss almost assures no title shot...

[raydog]

there are 4 teams now who have a chance...and only these 4 teams...

uga, mizzu, ok, fla... thats it

[ertl09]

who gives a fuk, they lost tonight, lots of season left

[ritehook]

USC can work way back in. Need to win out. And convincingly

[hoopster42]

so much depends on how oregon state does, the better they do, obviously it bodes better for usc, but some of you with short memories of cfb need to consider all of this:

07 - lsu loses at kentucky and at home to arkansas (7-6 team), but makes the nt gm, ohio st loses at hm to illinois, but still makes the nt gm

06 - florida loses at auburn, makes the title gm

03 - usc loses at cal (7-6 team), still earns piece of nt, lsu loses at hm to florida (before urban got there and made florida great again), but goes to nt gm

the short memories ppl have absolutey amaze me!

[VegasDave]

You guys don't realize that the Pac-10 is a garbage conference (every team already has a loss!) and gets no national respect at all.

A loss to an unranked Pac-10 team is far too much to overcome.

The SEC, Big 12, and even Big 10 (Penn State, Wisc, Ohio State, Illinois) all are significantly better and more well respected conferences. There will be 2 other teams in the nation that lose only one game, in conference, to ranked and respected opponents. They will go instead of USC.

USC can not and will not go to the national championship game after this loss. This is not rocket science.

[AgainstAllOdds]

this hoopster guy is still on USC...what is the deal...they have no shot at any title and Im glad they lost tonight to show everyone just how bad pac 10 is and how much more dominant SEC is...

Auburn>USC

[donjuan]

For those of you who say USC has no shot, I'll take USC for +50000, please.

[VegasDave]

For those of you who say USC has no shot, I'll take USC for +50000, please.

For how much?

[wtt0315]

sec teams have to lose 3 for them to come back.. plus they will lose 2 more

[fiveteamer]

They pretty much would need Ohio State to beat Penn State and hope the SEC guys knock each other out. They are not out of it.

[I.R.B]

so much depends on how oregon state does, the better they do, obviously it bodes better for usc, but some of you with short memories of cfb need to consider all of this:

07 - lsu loses at kentucky and at home to arkansas (7-6 team), but makes the nt gm, ohio st loses at hm to illinois, but still makes the nt gm

06 - florida loses at auburn, makes the title gm

03 - usc loses at cal (7-6 team), still earns piece of nt, lsu loses at hm to florida (before urban got there and made florida great again), but goes to nt gm

the short memories ppl have absolutey amaze me!

Yes but Usc won't be playing any top 25 teams for the rest of the year... With that said i can't see them in a title game..

[fiveteamer]

It's a shame for them that Notre Dame is horrible.

[pavyracer]

If USC makes the BCS champ game they will be a 14 point underdog.

[I.R.B]

Yea that seems like the only team that they got going good for them... But ND will lose 2-3 more before Usc gets to play them...

[LT Profits]

The difference is that both of LSU's losses last year came inside the toughest conference in the country, and LSU was REALLY the best team and deserved to play for the national championship.

Conversely, I don't think a team that loses to Oregon State (no slight intended) deserves to play for the title, and there was already doubt about whether or not USC was one of the two best teams to begin with.

The only reason I ranked them number one personally was because I expected thme to go undedeated in a the Pac 10, so I didn't think it was right to drop a team that was already ranked first down if it went undefeated.

From a pure talent standpoint however, I thought that USC had the fourth best team at best (Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma).

[LT Profits]

For those of you who say USC has no shot, I'll take USC for +50000, please.

I disagree with you here donjuan, USC has ZERO chance right now.

The SEC schools and Oklahoma would be more deserving even if they all had one loss, because that loss would almost certainly be to a better team than Oregon State.

[LT Profits]

there are 4 teams now who have a chance...and only these 4 teams...

uga, mizzu, ok, fla... thats it

Make that 5 teams.

LSU

[hoopster42]

USC can not and will not go to the national championship game after this loss. This is not rocket science.

it also wasnt rocket science to know that the alabama-clemson gm was gona be played in atlanta this yr. you missed that pt, even though it was common knowledge to diehard cfb fans like me since last spring. but i digress.

please allow me to drop some fukkin knowledge on the know-nothing masses

the jury is still out on the pac-10. they have had a horrible non-conf showing, but teams like arizona st, cal, and even arizona, can make some noise the rest of the yr and end up in the top 25. the better these teams do, the better usc will look in the bcs formula if they beat them

the season is far from over

[SBR Lou]

First Federer, now USC; Hoopster you have a way of jinxing great things.

[roasthawg]

SC's been exposed...Sanchez can't handle pressure, he looked terrible when he was forced to leave the pocket.

[hoopster42]

First Federer, now USC; Hoopster you have a way of jinxing great things.

i defend greatness when the rest of the sports fan world is ready to bury them. after i defended fed, he bounced back to win his only major of 08

i am a great, not good, luck charm

usc will likely run the table and with the craziness in cfb, they could very well be right back in the natl title picture as the games on sat, dec 6th kick off,

its 11 saturdays left to go so stay tuned

[mmike032]

Am I the only one tired of all these jackasses riding USCs coat tail.
FACT: USC has a cupcake schedule
FACT: USC lost to a nobody in D1 football, again this year.
FACT: USC will not make it to the title game even if they win out agaisnt more cupcakes.

FACT: USC would be lucky to go .500 in the SEC

[hoopster42]

Am I the only one tired of all these jackasses riding USCs coat tail.
FACT: USC has a cupcake schedule
FACT: USC lost to a nobody in D1 football, again this year.
FACT: USC will not make it to the title game even if they win out agaisnt more cupcakes.

FACT: USC would be lucky to go .500 in the SEC

FACT: USC was so highly respected by the AP voters in 2003 that they were given a share of the national title, the trophy sits in usc's athletic dept. the AP voters felt they were the best team that yr, not LSU or OU

FACT: USC won the national title in 2004 destroying OU, auburn went undefeated but the voters and the bcs formula knew who was better

FACT: USC was runner up in the natl title gm to Texas in what has been called the greatest cfb gm of all time

FACT: if USC had not lost to UCLA in dec 06, florida does not go to the natl title game, USC does

FACT: if WVA had not lost to Pitt in dec 07 then lsu does not back their way into the natl title gm becoming the first 2 loss team to ever play in the natl title gm

FACT: south carolina, coached by the great steve spurrier, has lost twice in a row to vanderbilt, who has not even been to a bowl gm since 1982!!!

perhaps your conference teams lose gms because they are more mediocre than you think, they have pedestrian offenses and cannot throw the football around the field, which is why they need the USC's and WVA's of the world to lose a game on the final day of the season so they can back into the natl title gm (Florida 06 and LSU 07) where they get to play weak ohio state and look good against an avg team

i'll match facts and transcend you any day of the fukkin week about this sport, buddy,

bring it on

[hoopster42]

thanks florida, losing at hm as a 22 pt fave to a team that lost to wake forest and vandy

[JRS21386]

This guy is a class act...

[flyingillini]

No way USC will make the title game. I wish there were odds on this.

[ZBOIZ]

if lsu could back their way in last yr, becoming the first 2 loss team in history to play for the nat'l title, then usc can get there this yr,

1 loss teams have made it several times this decade

and if you're gona lose, its better to lose early, history has shown us this

oklahoma, florida, georgia, mizzu, they all have very tough roads ahead

i'm not convinced that we've heard the last of usc

(not a fan of trojans, just a big big fan of college foots)

Please!!

[Patrick McIrish]

Am I the only one tired of all these jackasses riding USCs coat tail.
FACT: USC has a cupcake schedule
FACT: USC lost to a nobody in D1 football, again this year.
FACT: USC will not make it to the title game even if they win out agaisnt more cupcakes.
FACT: USC would be lucky to go .500 in the SEC

I don't get caught up in which conference does what, just looking for teams that can cover in any given matchup. That said I agree with you, if USC played LSU, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, Auburn type of teams instead of Stanford, Washington, Wash St etc..... they would be looked at much differently. SEC is just a very physical conference, even the "weak" teams like Vandy, Kentucky, Ole Miss (as we saw today) can put a hurt on you. It wears you down, you have to come out of the tunnel and go to war every week unlike the Pac-10 where you can coast through the conference if you have a talented team.

I don't know about .500, I think USC would be a bit better than that but there are 4 or 5 SEC teams that are better, couple more just as good. Having to play them every week would put a hurt on a team like USC, doubt they would hold up. They are in the right conference to dominate, would not happen in the SEC.

[hoopster42]

This guy is a class act...

whats the problem sir? you dont like someone calling it as he sees it? does the truth hurt that much, mr sec homer?

[hoopster42]

No way USC will make the title game. I wish there were odds on this.

they have a better chance of making the title game than your illinois over 8 wins has of beating the number!

lmfao at your sucker bet