With all due respect, as a fan and alum of USC, I'll take the privilege of picking our defining moment and it wasn't Furd. Pivotal yes, defining, not a chance. Do you really believe that furd is a better team than USC? Obviously they are not. And I really don't give a rip about the points. Points are nothing more than a mechanism for people to bet and make or lose money. It has nothing to do with any real game analysis. Our other loss was also to a potential (and likely winner) Heisman candidate in Dennis Dixon. We lost by one TD on the road and with our backup QB. USC also played McFadden in their house. Playing the what if game will trip up everyone. Like what if every SEC team had to play each other every year? What it LSU had really played the other best team last night? I'm not sure who that is exactly, lots of arguments to be made, but I can think of at least 3 or 4 other teams that were better than the Buckeyes. Let go of the bitterness and just enjoy your :crystal:
Why would anyone look to USC to set the bar? One championship in modern history is nice but nothing to brag about. If it weren't for the talking heads playing up to the large media market where USC plays and USC playing in a cup cake conference they wouldn't even enter into the discussion.:crystal: :crystal: :crystal: :crystal: :crystal:
McFadden didn't play when you played them. Points do matter. And I will say (like the rest of America that isn't brainwashed by the media) that your lost to Stanford will go a lot farther in the memory of sports fans than your win over Illinois. My bitterness won't die until the media trying to build up a weak PAC 10 conference and build up USC does. PEACE OUT! By the way, we beat the team that beat Georgia by 3 TD's with our backup QB. And I thought you had SO MUCH TALENT on that team that you could overcome missing one piece of the puzzle. We had to overcome SEVERAL pieces all year. I am enjoying the :crystal:...and this time we aren't sharing it with you!!!!
Sorry but, Felix Jones 7 55 7 48 0 24 6.9 Darren McFadden 9 44 2 42 0 17 4.7 And I disagree about Furd vs. Illinois. Despite the ad nauseum repeat commercials using the Furd game as a contender for the PGCM, it didn't even make the final four. And that's just one example. Stanford was a hiccup and most reasonable college fans know that. What we did to Illinois was decisive and a truer representative of what this year's team was capable of. As for the rest, Cal beat the team you bet in the SECCCG. USC ripped the team that beat the team you played last night. Oregon ripped Michigan who beat Florida in Florida and yet Florida ends up ranked ahead of them. :lol: Same as playing "what if". USC had much more than 1 piece of the puzzle missing. JDB was only one in a very long list of injuries to key players. One of the reasons we were depending on his passing so much against Furd is because our Oline was depleted and we could not establish the run. Talent alone doesn't equate to wins. Luck often plays a part and it certainly did this year in getting LSU in to the game. And nobody wants to share, so lighten up.
I am pretty sure you are mistaken, Felix Jones was the only one playing RB. DM was either out completely or barely able to play if memory serves. But by all means, justify it how you see fit. In fact that goes for this entire apple to orange firesale of a thread. Next pointless thread, please :dis:
You know what makes the whining and crying roll off my back this time when I was really ticked when we won the title for the 2003 season? Sometime last night, after the game was over, I realized that what ESPN or anyone else said just did not matter. We all joined the BCS system and agreed to play by that system's rules to determine a single recognized national champion. Then we all got a rule book from the NCAA setting out how each game was to be played. And we played every single game under the terms of those agreed rules. One rule was "most points wins; fewest points loses -- that is the only scoring system." So what if there are those who do not care about game outcomes or refuse to use points to judge the quality of their team? I think their self-esteem and self-confidence must be very important to them. Just like it was to the Russian Olympic judges. So if they want to they can judge quality based on "pretty play," uniform colors, facial attractiveness of the star players, or by counting each leading running back's forearm hairs. I'll stick to points won and games won. They can join the Communist block, appease their own egos, and say they are the best because "Georgia" has more vowels than consonants. My money is on a good capitalistic system that keeps score. My ego is not more important to me than my actual performance.
There are a bunch of "what ifs". What if our QB isn't hurt for most of the year? What if we don't lose our starting D-linemen for the year in the third week of the season? What if our #1 receiver doesn't pull a groin? We could have been undefeated and totally dominate all season! Unlike USC we beat the teams we needed to beat to get to the NCG and had a much harder path that any other of the top 5 teams in the nation. No one can compare to the season we had.
