re: It's been 20 years now since 2003 and the last ever split national championship

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Flawed or not, it’s what the participants agreed to before the completion. You can’t just throw that out after the fact.

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No one is throwing anything out. The participants involved agreed to follow the lead of the BCS and send the two teams that it selected to play each other at the end of the year. This was referred to as the "BCS Championship Game," but critically, the BCS did not award any kind of championship trophy of its own. It relied on the AP and Coaches' Polls to do that. Since only the Coaches' Poll agreed to automatically name the winner of the BCSCG as its champion, only its trophy was awarded to the winner of the game. The AP decided not to do this and to continue to award its trophy to whichever team was voted first by the members of its poll.

You can claim that the AP Poll no longer mattered in the BCS era but in 2003 it was not only still considered a major selector but was in fact considered to be the "senior" of the two, and it was a major embarrassment to the BCS when the AP failed to recognize the champion that the BCS system generated.

The only reason USC was ranked higher than LSU was because LSU lost later.

And it's funny that all these years later people just forget that every talking head said that OU's offense was unstoppable.

LSU won the national championship. USC got a participation trophy.

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You can claim that the AP Poll no longer mattered in the BCS era but in 2003 it was not only still considered a major selector but was in fact considered to be the "senior" of the two

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So are you saying that every conference in D1 agreed to the BCS plan, just not the authority of its poll?

What the frick was the point then?

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So are you saying that every conference in D1 agreed to the BCS plan, just not the authority of its poll?

What the frick was the point then?

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The BCS rankings were used only to determine the participants of the championship game (and later the Big 6 bowls). The BCS itself named no official champion. The two poll services still did that.

Your point about the system not making any sense is quite valid, but hey, this is college football we're talking about. "Making sense" is never a guarantee.

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The trophy literally said BCS National Champion on it

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It clearly marked itself as the Coaches' trophy, because that's what it was.

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You’re playing semantics because you’re losing the argument. Funny how you’re ignoring 90% of my posts now to harp on this one, irrelevant thing

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Your only argument is that the AP Poll shouldn't count because it didn't select the winner of the BCSCG. It wasn't required to. In 2003 an AP Poll championship was still considered a valid title claim. Nothing else you've said matters.

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The trophy literally said BCS National Champion on it It was a business arrangement because that trophy had come to represent the national champion as it looked the coolest.

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The marjority of Alabama fans on this site would rather burn an American flag, slap their mom,etc before giving LSU credit for anything positive. Oddly,not IRL,just here.

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Not according to the AP.

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Sports journalists?

They changed the design several times over the years, that the BCS logo appears below the words national champions and that’s supposed to be some kind of gotcha is hilarious.

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Your only argument is that the AP Poll shouldn't count

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I didn’t say it doesn’t count. It counts just as much as MacArthur and grantland rice and all the other polls out there.

No, they would not have. LSU stopped Oklahomas powerful offense and Heisman winning QB. LSU would have won by 10-14 points.