The Advocate: LSU to go 9-3, "Bama’s biggest obstacle is Bama"

That's incorrect.

The Coaches and the AP poll had OU at #1, USC at #2, LSU at #3. Up through the middle of November Ohio State was holding the #2 spot in the BCS until a late loss.

At the end of November there were two computers that had USC at #3, one had them at #4. After the SECCG, LSU was at #2 all across the board with one computer poll putting them at #1. USC, on the other hand, was ranked third with a first and fourth place position in two of the computer polls.

The point differential was so small between LSU and USC in the two human polls that when the computers were added in it left OU at #1, LSU at #2.

 

Look it up, USC was #1 in both the AP and Coaches polls. Oklahoma got blown out in the Big 12 Championship game and fell to #3

 

I think you're missing my point. They did win the AP title. Which, as you posted in the very next post, was irrelevant when it came to the agreed upon system, the BCS.

Hence the question I've posed to USC fans. What was the AP title worth? It means nothing in terms of the agreed upon system. But it doesn't change the point they were awarded that title by the AP.

If the roles were reversed and USC had the BCS title and LSU was awarded the AP I'd still feel the same way. Are you suggesting Louisiana State University wouldn't recognize the Associated Press and their award? Don't take the question as confrontational. Setting your allegiance and this story aside, I'd like to know what you think you would have chosen to do.

In the end do I feel one carries more weight than the other? Yes. The BCS. Why? Because it was the system USC, the PAC, and the BCS conferences had agreed upon. USC, by actions of the AP, changed the criteria.

We may end up not seeing eye to eye here. I can't look at a group like the AP and it awarding a title and make a comparison, much less say it's worse, to a school claiming something that wasn't awarded to them and they made up and claim as their own.

One actually exists. The other doesn't.

 

I'll look at the most recent NCAA record book later on, but last one i looked at they listed AP Champs just as prominent as BCS Champs

It's not like split titles are a rare occurance. Go look how many of those Bama titles were awarded by both polls. Not many. It's not like we have to put an asterisk by our 2003 Championship, and it certainty didn't take any of my enjoyment away when i was in the Dome watching us crush OU

 

I did, and I was looking at Week 16.

My mistake. Week 16 was the week before the CCG's.

Laziness...I didn't want to scroll through this pdf which lists it as you stated.

Sadly, I had it opened in another tab.

 

The coaches poll contactually agreed to name the BCS champion the winner of the coaches poll, which is why the coaches trophy goes to the winner

The AP Poll didn't get contractually involved with the BCS

So the AP and Coaches champions went on like they have since like 1950 (about 1936 in the case of the AP), with the only difference being the coaches poll contactually agreed to name the winner of the BCS the winner of the coaches poll

 

I think a lot of people don't realize the NCAA names the champion via a playoff in every sport but D1 football

In the other sports, the NCAA gives them an NCAA trophy and everything.

With the 4-team playoff, will the NCAA be awarding the championship and the NCAA trophy for the first time in D1 football history?