re: Poll: Is there a concensus of hated programs outisde the SEC? (update p5)

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There was USC back in the 2000's. Those guys got way too much credit during our 'quasi never actually played a game' rivalry. They skated by playing in a inferior region yet got national love simply because they were USC. Rather enjoyed that programs embarrassing descent and PC abandoning ship.

My main one has always been Texas though. How in the hell do the flagship institutions of two neighboring states almost never play? While sad, it became apparent our big bad neighbors to the west were simply avoiding us.

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This is wrong. I hate them with a white hot fire, but they were incredible from 2002 through 2008 or so. You must have missed the train of NFL players, the annual #1 recruiting classes, and the embarrassments they would hand teams in seemingly every single high profile game they played. USC is a lot of things, but overrated, at least during that period, is generally not one of them.

Their 2004 team remains the best college team I have ever seen in person, and that includes 2007 LSU and 2012 Alabama. They looked like an NFL team.