After an utter dismantling by Stanford Saturday, it was really thought that the reign was over.
However, the Trojans' conference dynasty has not officially, mathematically come to the end of its run. According to Jon Wilner of the San Jose Mercury News, there remains a scenario in which USC can lay claim to a Pac-10 title for the eight-straight year.
And it involves six teams ending with a 6-3 record in the league
Disregarding No. 1 for a moment ... and in an attempt to rock your world ... there's a way the league could finish with six teams tied at 6-3 -- and only one result in the sequence is farfetched:Cal (three losses) beats Stanford (third loss) and Washington.Arizona (two losses) beats ASU and Oregon (second loss).USC (three losses) beats UCLA and Arizona (third loss).Oregon State (two losses) beats Oregon (third loss).Washington State beats Oregon State (third loss).
In the immortal words of Lloyd Christmas, so you're telling me there's a chance...
Wrong. Yeah they can be tied for the lead, but they will lose the tie-breakers.
Joshua,
The article was directed at proving USC could claim a portion of the league crown; not a BCS bid.
Well the San Jose Merc blogger stated that USC would be in fact the champs. I don't know if that is true, but he stated it pretty simply. Unfortunately he didn't give us any more detail. I am sure I would give myself a headache if I tried to sort it out, but in that six team scenario everyone would both own the head to head over some other teams in the equation as well as be owned.
Link to Pac 10 tiebreaker procedures http://www.pac-10.org/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102802aai.html
we still have the newspapers from our parents with the headlines dewey beats truman.
usc's problems go much deeper that the game losses on the surface.
the mathematics are correct. however, when you introduce the other off the field factors, such as buishgate and the ncaa investigation live on and the usc coverups have been blown by our big disclosure win over the ncaa on 10/15/2009 which forced the ncaa to relase to the public every document relating to the ncaa investigation of academic fraud at florida state, petey and mikey and those responsible at usc know that their fates are sealed and the usc stable of full time football players have caught on.
long term usc president and member of the usc board of directors steven sample has recently announced his resignation and petey and mikey and others are looking at travel plans to brazil, thinking that there is no extradition treaty.
Like that is really gonna happen LOL!