But the difference is what: The fact that it was at the end of Nov.(our best month the last 8yrs); next that it was ASU and game highlited for Pac-10 champ; and last that we probably didn’t have a bunch of byes in front of it, another reason for non-consistant play. Byes are good here and there but this season schedule was totally strange.

When your strange no one remembers your name!

It was only a decade ago that ucla was on the verge of a national championship and USC was nothing in football.

While we can think of the MNCs that could have come along barring those losses over the past couple years, it’s much better to look at the success and the barren period that came before it and be happy about it.

You guys at WE are sc owe me $129 bucks

seriously, “credibility” for what? A blog? I’m afraid we’ve turned blogging into some sort of intellectual exercise, when all it is is a forum for positing viewpoints — it’s supposed to be fun — an arena in which one can be free with comments (non-offensive) and stir things up a bit. If my “pitiful” comment was offensive, than my apologies — wow.
My point is this — be happy that SC is “pimped” period. Why would you be upset that favorable comments are being made about USC? That just makes no sense to me. Again, sports is about entertainment and fun. If people in Alabama get mad because they feel USC gets too much “cred” on ESPN, what’s the harm? Please tell me how that effects us somehow … what, do people come by your house and shout obscenities at your family? Do they tag your house? I’m just curious why some would be upset that people “hate us”. It’s sports!! Stop taking it personally.
And back to the “sensitivity” subject Paragon … what “you should want here” is fun banter. This isn’t life or death … like I said, a tad too sensitive.

then it can influence the voters…you know the ones that don’t even watch the games, the ones that lobby for each other behind the scenes because there is no transparency in regards to how they vote (until the last ballot).

a one-loss SC was punished throughout the season for Corvallis, yet they win a game (Cal?) and then drop 2 spots in the BCS?

Right….makes sense to me!

We should care because the overhype influences the voters, and feeds into a very, very poor system. I don’t mind people hating USC because the program is regularly on top of the Pac-10 as of late. That’s part of college football.

Where my objection comes in is the general hype train that comes now after the football team has lost a game it probably should not have, and when it is on the outside of the BCS looking in (thanks to conference strength or other perceptions), that the program is touted as one that got wrongly exempted from the current system.

Florida fans deal with the same dislike because many of those same analysts slurp Tim Tebow to death.