Ohio State-USC: Worst Showing Ever for a Top Five Team?

Twenty starters returned from last year's 10-2 team that got taken apart by the LSU Bayou Tigers in January.  Several players that could have defected to the NFL draft in the spring returned for this year's run, and all probably saw their NFL stock plummet.

The loss was such a monumental collapse by a top five team that it begs the question: Is this the worst showing ever for a top five team?

One thing that is true: Ohio State did not even play well enough to test the conventional "wisdom" that USC is the best team in the country.

UCLA, which got hammered 59-0 yesterday by BYU, will likely put up a much stiffer fight when the two teams meet up in their annual rivalry game.

With only Notre Dame (who defeated Michigan 35-17 also Saturday) and the Pac-10 schedule remaining, USC is poised to make their now-traditional run through their conference, perhaps get tested by Jimmy Clausen and Notre Dame, and make travel plans for the BCS National Title Game in Miami, January 8, 2009.

Hopefully a more worthy team than the Jim "Not Woody Hayes" Tressel-led Ohio State Buckeyes will be there to give them a real game.

Coach on the possibility of a rematch between USC and OSU for the BCS National Title: "...the possibility that the Buckeyes will be seeing the Trojans again is not that far-fetched of an idea.  Yes, the BCS is that F..... up!"

Coach then continued, "Of course, if the Buckeyes can get off the mat and teams begin to fall away in the coming weeks, and Ohio State rolls up some wins, the boobs in the Harris Poll will forget the 35-3 beatdown that we all witnessed in the Coliseum...

"Yes, the BCS Boys have created such a fraudulent system, such an embarrassment to the great game of college football, that the worst nightmare scenario of a rematch of USC and Ohio State is a real possibility!

"Yes, the team that got their ass handed to them the last three times they have played legitimate football teams could BE PLAYING FOR THE NATIONAL TITLE IN JANUARY!  We would say this BCS was created by morons, but that would be a terrible insult to morons everywhere."

Coach on Ohio State, "Yes, Ohio State can beat Big Ten teams, but they cannot beat the best teams in the game of college football today."

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