Maybe it’s because Pete Carroll comes off as one of the most smug SOBs around. Maybe it’s because of the media’s obsession with USC. Or maybe it’s just my way of raging against the machine.
Regardless, it was with a great deal of satisfaction that I watched the #1 team in the land drop a big deuce in Corvallis, Oregon, Thursday night. It seems Carroll’s Trojans are starting to make a habit of taking an annual siesta at least once during the conference slate. Since falling to Texas in the BCS title game three years ago, after which Matt Leinart brazenly declared they were still actually the better team (and he was probably right), the upset bug has taken a big chunk out of USC each season. In 2006, it was Oregon State. Last year, it was the fighting tree of Stanford. And, of course, this year it was the Beavers yet again. What a crying shame.
You see, THIS is what’s great about college football. Since I’m one of the seven people across the country who’s actually against a playoff system, let me please point out why this makes sense.
Every game counts. A LOT. A title contender shouldn’t be let off the hook for getting clowned by a conference cellar dweller. Now that they’ve lost a game, the mighty Trojans are appropriately at the mercy of the other upper echelon schools in nation. Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, Missouri, et al. If a couple of these guys slide through their schedules unscathed, the Trojans are left on the outside looking in — and that’s the way it should be.
Of course, if only one (or less) of the aforementioned schools goes undefeated, that’s when USC is at the mercy of the system. There will be several one-loss schools, and the media will talk endlessly about how USC is still the most talented and dangerous team in the country. But if they’re not blessed with a title game appearance, it’s still no one’s fault but their own. Just take down the vaunted Beavers.
If Pete wanted a playoff, he should have gone back to NFL where every team apparently wanted him. But remember what everyone said? In the pros he’d only get one first-round draft pick per year, and at Southern Cal he gets the equivalent of ten first-round picks each year.
Too bad all of those first-rounders couldn’t consistently tackle a 5′7″ guy named Jacquizz.
Have fun watching the scoreboard the next few months, Pete.
3 Comments
September 28, 2008 at 6:59 pm
Yes USC is known for losing a game to a unranked team but every team does this; just look at what happened thi weekend FLORIDA GEORGIA lost. It’s quiet obvious you are just a hater so shut the fuck up and stop bitching you asshole. I am a USC fan and I got over the lose and you should too you arrogant cocky piece of shit. USC FIGHT ON!!!
September 29, 2008 at 6:25 pm
This game was one of several that ultimately led to my decision to stop bothering trying to ascertain whom is better than whom each week, laying my weekly poll to rest for good. I saw Oregon State play a couple of weeks earlier and they couldn’t have been worse if they tried. Happened all over the place…Florida, Wisconsin, Wake Forest just to name a few. Maybe the attention span of the average big-time college football team just ain’t what she used to be. People argue this is great because every game matters. Fine, but why can’t we have a tournament too? Wouldn’t it be more likely you’d have a true national champion winning four playoff games against top competition instead of someone easing into the “BCS Championship” because someone else lost “at the wrong time?” or “to the wrong team?”
September 30, 2008 at 5:54 pm
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