re: I miss poll era football.

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USC and OU started the year 1 and 2 and both went undefeated and for the most part looked outstanding doing it. What collusion was at hand? It would look more suspect to bump one of them for au.

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In retrospect, it's easy to say Auburn deserved the shot at USC over Oklahoma after OU was throttled by like five TDs, but no one could have known that at the time. As you said, they were #1 and 2 most of the year. Any time a certain number of undefeated teams remain at the end of the year, one will always have a claim to the "we should have been there" argument.