re: There have been 22 SEC national titles in football in the poll era (1936)

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The USC thing is iffy because the AP Poll was still part of the BCS

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Yes, you're exactly right. It was a "part" of the BCS whole. It'd be no different than the colley matrix or dunkleman index claiming a different champ and the school claiming it. IDGAF how respected the AP was previously, starting in 1998 EVERY TEAM/conference agreed to abide by the rule, being that 1 and 2 would play each other in the BCS title game to crown the champ. And USC did not do that in 2003. Also of note is that the following year in 04 the AP even pulled out of the equation, effectively making them completely adn totally irrelevant.

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OU had no business being in the title game over them.

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that's conjecture that doesn't really have any bearing on who won the title.