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Why not Texas?

After all the love ESPN is giving the Trojans there has finally been a little media backlash against their feature pitting the the 2005 USC team against some of the all-time greats. Jonathan Chait thinks it’s pretty ridiculous considering they haven’t even proved themselves to be the best team in the country this season.

“So far, at least according to ESPN, the Trojans have dispensed with history’s great football juggernauts with greater ease than they dispatched, say, the 2005 Fresno State Bulldogs.”

He even goes on to claim that USC is vastly overrated and that last year’s team was probably a much better all around football team.

“Overrated teams tend to share certain factors. USC has two of them in spades. First, they’re an offensive-oriented team with great skill-position talent. Teams with great offenses and shaky defenses tend to be overrated, while teams with great defenses and shaky offenses are usually underrated. Second, they’re piggybacking off the reputation of a predecessor.”

I don’t think anyone is trying to claim USC isn’t damn good, but it’s amazing how much better they’ve gotten in the media’s eyes since the season ended. This is a team that struggled at various times this season and didn’t play dominant football very often. Their best wins came against a Notre Dame team that was exposed on Monday in the Fiesta Bowl, a Fresno State team that lost it’s last four games, and Oregon who was easily handled by the third best team in the Big 12. Not exactly impressive.

We’ll finally find out how good both the Trojans and Longhorns really are tonight.

CollegeFootballNews.com has one of the better Rose Bowl previews I’ve read, and not just because they picked Texas to win. It’s that this is one of the few I’ve read that actually remembers that defense is important, that Vince Young can beat you with the pass if you want him too. It even manages to do it all without trying to claim the 2005 Trojan football team wouldn’t have let no damn horse surprise them and would have crushed the Greek army.

“I haven’t asked him every day, but I expect Vince and Justin (Blalock) to be back”

Should be suspended for multiple games next year for this.

Both teams have dominating offensive and defensive lines.

So if you’re keeping track, Texas is better on D and special teams and close to equal on offense.

Coaches who got their ass beaten by Horns talk trash anonymously.

Brady chose to go to Notre Dame while Laura chose to date with A.J. Hawk, a heck of a football player but one ugly SOB.

She’s not terrible looking I’d think she could find a better looking guy. Though AJ and his family seemed like really good people in the interview ABC ran during the Fiesta Bowl pregame. She just needs to talk him into cutting his hair.

Young distributes the ball to a group of unsung backs and receivers.