I am sure this has been answered but I am curious. If USC runs the table, goes undefeated, and we all know the AP is in love with USC. Could they conceivably still win the AP National Title even though they are barred from the BCS and bowl games. We all know how the media loves to make up "Well if USC could have played enter team here" they would have won. And like to create news. Is that possible. USC could still win the AP national championship ? Sure whoever is one and two would need a loss or two (See our last Title) but if USC was the ONLY undefeated team, and the National Champion had 1 loss to lets say an unranked team (Which happens). Just curious...
i believe then the question would become "can the ap's lips be pried off of lame kitten's *namebodyparthere*"?
Exactly, see some of the other threads. With media outlets it's all about media markets and where their bread is butted. USC is located in the #2 US media market, no way the AP doesn't award them the title if they are even in the conversation.
Although they could I'd be extremely shocked if they did, given USC won't have that additional bowl win. The last AP poll comes out after the bowls, and without that game USC wouldn't fit any criteria to be logically voted #1.
There is no such thing as the AP National Title. Since the advent of the BCS, there is a national championship game, the winner of which is the national champion. Being #1 on anybody's poll only makes you #1 on a poll, not a national champion. There are a dozen other polls around besides the AP. None of them mean a damn thing anymore . . . especially the AP which is not even used in the BCS rankings. Southern California has exactly zero national championships in this century. They lost the one that they earned by cheating and they never even made it to the national championship game in the year that they claim "half" of a championship.
You can scream this all day but some people will just never get it. AP is purely for entertainment purposes and has no meaning. No different then SI, Athlon, or islstl's rankings.