Sorry USC, You Have No Case!

And where the Pac-10 has one WR with more than 750 yards and ZERO with more than 1000, the Big 12 has 14 and five such WRs, respectively.

So, is it great USC defense or bad offenses of USC opponents? Well, when you consider that Penn State held an Ohio State team that actually had Chris Wells at RB and Terrelle Pryor at QB to six points, I will let you answer that question.

(USC fans still feel free to claim Ohio State as their only victory against the top 15 knowing full well that the Todd Boeckman-Noah Herron offense that they played would have struggled to achieve seven wins.)

USC fans can counter with the meager SEC offensive statistics. That is fine. I am only pointing out that USC's longtime argument against the SEC should be applied to itself. And since the SEC is a national best by far 11-4 in BCS games, including a perfect record in BCS title games (where USC is batting .500 in title games), it has been demonstrated that its mediocre offenses are no impediment.

But that is the SEC's argument, not USC's. USC needs to stick with their own longtime argument and declare Texas, Texas Tech, Oklahoma, and Florida to be more worthy based on it.

2. Record/strength of schedule.

Alabama is undefeated. I will accept anyone's argument that a one-loss team should be preferred to an undefeated major college team when they are willing to apply it to their own team. "We had the best record but you know, we are just not that good, so we will just play for No. 2 this year and be happy." Any takers? USC fans? Anyone? Didn't think so.

Oklahoma - Texas - Texas Tech: All of those teams have played three opponents in the BCS top 15, with two of them in the BCS top seven. Texas played four of the BCS top 20. So, what is the argument of USC, whose single game against the BCS top 20 came against a team that was playing backups at QB and RB at the time (not to mention the fact that at WR backups is all Ohio State has)?

USC will say, "But they played a weak non-conference schedule!" All right, so let's say that 5-7 Virginia and 6-6 ND override having to play all those 11-1 and 10-2 teams whose only losses were to each other. Against Oklahoma, who played No. 11 TCU and No. 13 Cincinnati out of conference, to go along with the Pac 10's own Washington, your case is ridiculous.

Florida: So they played the Citadel. Tell you what...Let's exclude them. Result: If Florida wins the SEC championship game, then you will be able to match their 12 games against I-A competition against USC's. Result: A clear advantage for Florida.

Ten bowl eligible teams versus seven, and even that assumes that Arizona State beats Arizona and gets Mike Stoops fired this weekend. Oh yes, and even in that scenario, both Arizona schools will need to use victories over I-AA teams to be eligible.

So not only will USC only have seven bowl-eligible opponents at best, but three of them (Arizona, Arizona State, Notre Dame) will qualify at 6-6. I also like the fact that Arizona and Arizona State would not only use victories over I-AA teams, but victories over Washington and Washington State, teams that have combined for a single victory against I-A...the overtime game where they played each other!

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