I know they won the Pac-10, which isn't that hard to do obviously, but USC lost to Oregon State and UCLA, which at the time both teams were not ranked and Oregon state still shouldn't be ranked. For the past three years USC has had an advantage in the BCS, if they wouldn't have lost to UCLA they would have been in the national championship, even though they lost to unranked Oregon State and Michigan lost #1 Ohio State and Florida lost to #11 Auburn at the time.
2006-12-05 02:52:39 · 15 answers · asked by mooney8805 1 in Sports ➔ Football (American)
beats the heck out of me - i guess its because they are the pac-10 champs
2006-12-05 02:55:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Agreed. While I understand that Oregon State has a decent record, the reality is that no 2 loss team deserves to be in the top 5, especially when you consider that both teams had not been ranked, as you mention.
When Notre Dame BEAT UCLA, Notre Dame actually dropped in the polls. Meanwhile, USC did not even drop out of the top 5 and they lost to UCLA!
2006-12-05 03:31:27 · answer #2 · answered by Matt K 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sure beats the hell out of me. They lost to UCLA, a record of 7 - 5, and to Oregon State, who is 9 - 4, plus don't forget they almost lost to Washington State, Washington and Arizona State! How they only dropped in the BCS three spots after losing last Saturday indicates that the BCS needs to be "tweaked" some more!
2006-12-05 05:13:26 · answer #3 · answered by Doug H 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. I know if most other teams lost to two unranked teams with one being at the end of the season they would be lucky to be in the top 15. The media just loves USC for some reason.
2006-12-05 03:03:23 · answer #4 · answered by juicetke 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
jesus christ...the regular season is over and there are still people crying about rankings.
didn't we already have enough crying about who is #2? and now we're complaining about who is #5?
well if you REALLY want to know how the rankings work, they take an average of the usa today poll, harris poll and computer rankings. the polls are not as NARROWLY MINDED as simply looking at who a team lost to. among other things, it includes:
1. overall strength of schedule
2. win-loss record
3. style points (how a team won or lost)
4. is a team getting better, worse or staying the same?
so the human pollsters voted USC #8 and the computers favored them higher because of their schedule. when the bcs averaged it all out, they were #5.
that's why they're #5.
so are we going to start complaining about who is #14?
2006-12-05 07:14:11 · answer #5 · answered by loveholio 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the BCS is a biased voter-based type thing, on top of that the schools purposely schedule games to affect the standings. ohio state and michigan both could have technically played one more game since they are still in school for another week, and according to the rules the season must be over before or at the same time as the ending of the simester. so basically it is due to biased voting and corrupt league officiating. its aggrivating and some thought should be put into changing or fixing the problems
2006-12-05 03:05:56 · answer #6 · answered by J man 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no such thing as a perfect rating system (unfortunately) and the BCS keeps changing things so they still have problems anyways ;( , but everybody is always hyped up about USC all the time making them sound like they are amazing...I totally agree that they shouldn't be ranked nearly that high and they for sure aren't nearly as good a team without Bush and Leinhart...they should be like 24th or so TOPS. Well that's all I have to say, Good question :()
2006-12-05 02:57:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
a million. UGA many returning starters to contain Knowshawn Moreno 2. WVU they beat OU (my group) undesirable interior the BCS game have alot of admire for them 3. LSU protecting champs cant count variety them out 4. OU my group with a lot of fire means on the two aspects of the ball 5. USC they confirmed some thing on the tip of the season. they continually have expertise that's in the event that they could placed it mutually OSU would not make the record becuase they save getitng smashed interior the identify game.
2016-10-04 21:55:11 · answer #8 · answered by kuhlmann 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you. Although I do believe USC is a good team and should be there, they did lose to UCLA and it's only fair they drop. Look at what happened to Rutgers when they lost to Cincinatti, they dropped 8 spots. USC should have dropped more, but I guess thats BCS for ya.
2006-12-05 03:28:12 · answer #9 · answered by AshleyH 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because they beat Arkansas, Nebraska and Notre Dame. Two of those teams played for their respective conference championships. And the Pac-10 is a hard conference simply because of the depth. You take out Stanford and any team is able to beat any team. In other words, the bottom 3 Pac-10 teams are way better then any other conference's bottom 3. So they played a very hard non-conference schedule and played a lot of high-end medium teams within the conference.
2006-12-05 03:50:24 · answer #10 · answered by Take it from Toby 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
They still have one of the toughest schedules in the country. And last time I checked, Oregon State is 9-4 and easily one of the top 25 teams in the country.
2006-12-05 03:10:24 · answer #11 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋