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August 30 at Virginia W 52-7 1-0 (0-0)
September 13 No. 5 Ohio State W 35-3 2-0 (0-0)
September 25 at Oregon State L 27-21 2-1 (0-1)
October 4 No. 23 Oregon W 44-10 3-1 (1-1)
October 11 Arizona State W 28-0 4-1 (2-1)
October 18 at Washington State W 69-0 5-1 (3-1)
October 25 at Arizona W 17-10 6-1 (4-1)
November 1 Washington W 56-0 7-1 (5-1)
November 8 No. 21 California W 17-3 8-1 (6-1)
November 15 at Stanford W 45-23 9-1 (7-1)
November 29 Notre Dame W 38-3 10-1 (7-1)
December 6 at UCLA W 28-7 11-1 (8-1)
That's your schedule. Honestly. Seriously. Schedule some real opponents if you want anyone outside of the LIBRAL BIASED MEDIASFSD to take USC seriously. Ohio State is your only real opponent.. and they suck, bad.
Compare to OK or FL schedules:
==OK==
August 30 Chattanooga W 57-2 1-0 (0-0)
September 6 Cincinnati W 52-26 2-0 (0-0)
September 13 at Washington W 55-14 3-0 (0-0)
September 27 No. 24 TCU W 35-10 4-0 (0-0)
October 4 at Baylor W 49-17 5-0 (1-0)
October 11 vs. No. 5 Texas* L 45-35 5-1 (1-1)
October 18 No. 16 Kansas W 45-31 6-1 (2-1)
October 25 at Kansas State W 58-35 7-1 (3-1)
November 1 Nebraska W 62-28 8-1 (4-1)
November 8 at Texas A&M W 66-28 9-1 (5-1)
November 22 No. 2 Texas Tech W 65-21 10-1 (6-1)
November 29 at No. 12 Oklahoma State W 61-41 11-1 (7-1)
December 6 vs. No. 20 Missouri* W 62-21 12-1 (7-1)
==FL==
August 30 Hawaii W 56-10 1-0 (0-0)
September 6 Miami (FL) W 26-3 2-0 (0-0)
September 20 at Tennessee W 30-6 3-0 (1-0)
September 27 Mississippi L 31-30 3-1 (1-1)
October 4 at Arkansas W 38-7 4-1 (2-1)
October 11 No. 4 LSU W 51-21 5-1 (3-1)
October 25 Kentucky W 63-5 6-1 (4-1)
November 1 at No. 6 Georgia W 49-10 7-1 (5-1)
November 8 at Vanderbilt W 42-14 8-1 (6-1)
November 15 No. 25 South Carolina W 56-6 9-1 (7-1)
November 22 Citadel W 70-19 10-1 (7-1)
November 29 at No. 20 Florida State W 45-15 11-1 (7-1)
December 6 vs. No. 1 Alabama* W 31-20 12-1 (7-1)
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CA10829 Posts
did you just say USC needs to schedule some real opponents? lol.
look, we scheduled UVA, tOSU, and ND. UVA was a 9-4 team last year, and that was the first game of the season. tOSU is a great OOC game as well. ND is a traditional rivalry game, and historically are an amazing football program.
we all know about the big12 this year. yes, it was clearly the strongest conference by far.
but please don't tell me about florida. yes they have a great SEC record and won against many ranked opponents. but how many teams actually deserved those rankings? they were clearly overrated. a win over "#4 LSU"? they finished 7-5, with a 3-5 conference record. "#6 georgia" ended up with 3 losses. "#25 south carolina" 4-4 in conference, 7-5 overall. "#20 FSU" has 4 losses? plus florida lost AT HOME to unranked ole miss. of course, vs bama was a great win though. their ooc wins are against citadel (lol), miami FL, and hawaii. miami is the only team from a BCS conference.
it isn't USC's fault the PAC-10 had a down year.
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On December 08 2008 05:24 LosingID8 wrote:
but please don't tell me about florida. yes they have a great SEC record and won against many ranked opponents. but how many teams actually deserved those rankings? they were clearly overrated.
You think florida is overrated??? really?
BTW, UVA is in the ACC (one of the worst conferences in the country this season), and their record this year was 5-7 against mostly unranked teams--failing to even qualify for a bowl game. And ND is mediocre at best.
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CA10829 Posts
sorry my sentence structure was very ambiguous.
florida is not overrated, but the many ranked teams that they played were. primarily due to the media loving the SEC.
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If you actually look at the schedule of the teams Florida beat, you'll see they all had much tougher schedules than USC as well. If you put USC into a tougher conference, they would come out with much the same sort of 9-3 8-4 7-5 type of record.
I'm not blaming USC, they can't really do much about their conference sucking. But that doesn't mean they deserve to play in the title game if they have a good record.
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On December 08 2008 05:59 LosingID8 wrote:
sorry my sentence structure was very ambiguous.
florida is not overrated, but the many ranked teams that they played were. primarily due to the media loving the SEC.
I completely understood that you did not explicitly call florida overrated. But I thought the whole reason you brought up florida's "overrated" opponents was to imply that florida itself is overrated. Oh well, nvm.
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On December 08 2008 05:24 LosingID8 wrote:
did you just say USC needs to schedule some real opponents? lol.
look, we scheduled UVA, tOSU, and ND. UVA was a 9-4 team last year, and that was the first game of the season. tOSU is a great OOC game as well. ND is a traditional rivalry game, and historically are an amazing football program.
we all know about the big12 this year. yes, it was clearly the strongest conference by far.
but please don't tell me about florida. yes they have a great SEC record and won against many ranked opponents. but how many teams actually deserved those rankings? they were clearly overrated. a win over "#4 LSU"? they finished 7-5, with a 3-5 conference record. "#6 georgia" ended up with 3 losses. "#25 south carolina" 4-4 in conference, 7-5 overall. "#20 FSU" has 4 losses? plus florida lost AT HOME to unranked ole miss. of course, vs bama was a great win though. their ooc wins are against citadel (lol), miami FL, and hawaii. miami is the only team from a BCS conference.
it isn't USC's fault the PAC-10 had a down year.
I love you ID8 but the PAC-10 is such a weak ass conference this year. USC is the only team from the PAC-10 in the BCS standings and they are only there because they could walk over all of their PAC-10 opponents with ease. UCLA was total joke this year and your friends up north didnt do much better for themselves. The MWC seriously put the smackdown on you guys this year and if we keep doing it I hope we get our BCS slot, because MWC is better than the PAC-10. Besides you guys deserve it for ignoring Utah/BYU for so long now, we deserve a spot in the PAC-10 where we could easily compete against anyone except USC, and I could see the Utes or the Cougs beating them just not easily.
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On December 07 2008 17:40 TheMusiC wrote:
that's the thing though, there hasn't really been a defense anywhere this season that's shown it's good enough to stop the sooner offense (except for, again, texas, but they fucked that up later in getting dominated by TT).
lol "dominated by TT" lol
OU offense is pretty ridiculous though. As much as I hate that they edged out UT to go to the Big 12 championship, it would be cool to see them not implode/choke/suck in a bowl game for once.
That said, their defense could use some improvement.
Oh well, a shootout game would be cool too.
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USC's nonconference schedule was as tough as anyone's out there. UVA, Ohio State, and ND is a lot tougher than (for example) Cincy, TCU, Washington, and Chattanooga.
Can't ignore how awful the rest of the Pac 10 is this year though. Because of that, USC doesn't belong in over Florida/Oklahoma if they all have the same # of losses.
lol I was really hoping Missouri could fix the Big 12's mistake... so much for that!
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On December 08 2008 07:06 MCMcEmcee wrote:Show nested quote +On December 07 2008 17:40 TheMusiC wrote:
that's the thing though, there hasn't really been a defense anywhere this season that's shown it's good enough to stop the sooner offense (except for, again, texas, but they fucked that up later in getting dominated by TT). lol "dominated by TT" lol OU offense is pretty ridiculous though. As much as I hate that they edged out UT to go to the Big 12 championship, it would be cool to see them not implode/choke/suck in a bowl game for once. That said, their defense could use some improvement. Oh well, a shootout game would be cool too.
I'm torn. The Big 12 gets a lot of crap in the media for losing NC games. But I really want to see OU get destroyed. If OU wins, I'll feel like Texas was robbed of a likely national title. But if Florida wins by like 30, then they're probably better than UT also, given how close UT and OU were.
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On December 08 2008 07:08 Signet wrote:
USC's nonconference schedule was as tough as anyone's out there. UVA, Ohio State, and ND is a lot tougher than (for example) Cincy, TCU, Washington, and Chattanooga.
Can't ignore how awful the rest of the Pac 10 is this year though. Because of that, USC doesn't belong in over Florida/Oklahoma if they all have the same # of losses.
lol I was really hoping Missouri could fix the Big 12's mistake... so much for that!
You have to admit Notre Dame hardly lived up to their big name this year.
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On December 08 2008 07:12 SpiralArchitect wrote:
You have to admit Notre Dame hardly lived up to their big name this year.
ND sucks  They're still better than Washington and Chattanooga though.
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Florida didnt have a good schedule wtf are you talking about lol
This is why we need a playoff, Ill murder someone if Urban Meyer and Florida win another National Championship =[
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GrandInquisitor
New York City13113 Posts
the case for USC: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122808016191367339.html
it does suck that they have to basically go undefeated to get to the championship, despite a nonconference schedule way harder than anyone else's. UVa, Ohio State, and ND looked solid before the season. The Citadel never did.
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^ But their conference schedule sucks. The PAC-10 is weak as all hell this year, if USC goes to the NC game I will have a nervous break down.
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Yeah if we're just going to let two teams in, strength of schedule has to count for a lot. It sucks for USC that their conference just happens to be bad this year, but it'd suck worse for the Big 12 champion to be left out when the conference is very tough this year.
I think most people agree - playoff is the only way to solve this.
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Dude, are you guys serious? Scheduling "famous" teams isn't scheduling good teams. Is Michigan, Nebraska, and Notre Dame a hard non-conference schedule? Fuck no. What makes USC's schedule tough at all? Name one thing. There isn't one. They haven't been tested at all.
The best teams get tested week after week and come out on top anyway. Just because Lyon wins the the French football league EVERY SINGLE YEAR doesn't make them the best football team in the world. It makes them the best of a bunch of bad teams.
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This is so fucking ridiculous. FUCK THE BCS!
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United States10774 Posts
BCS is fine and i love it even though it has its flaws. college football playoffs would suck so hard.
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The BCS is a joke. A computer cannot watch football, therefore it fails. There are no other professional or collegiate level sports which use such a ridiculously unstable system to decide a national champion. NBA: Playoffs NCAA B-Ball: Playoffs NFL: PLayoffs MLB: PLayoffs. If the BCS if fine why dont any of the other college sports adopt a similar system. Need I remind you that the press decides one third of the voting from polls. The BCS is engineered to make the most amount of money possible, they dont care if there is a dark horse team out there.
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