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University of Southern California Trojans 2004 National Champions
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The University of Southern California finished the season in spectacular fashion by defeating the University of Oklahoma Sooners 55-19 in the Orange Bowl on January 4th 2005. The Trojans were pretty much unstoppable. The rest of the country seemed to think that Oklahoma was more than a match for USC. It was pretty much a joke. Auburn or Utah would not have fared any better.
The Orange Bowl was the highest-rated of the BCS bowls. The 13.7 Nielson Rating/22 percent of households was below the 14.8/25 average for last year's bowl championship series title game between Louisiana State and Oklahoma in the Sugar Bowl. Second was the Saturday Jan 1st afternoon Rose Bowl, with a 12.4/23. Monday night's Sugar Bowl got a 9.5/15, and Saturday night's Fiesta Bowl a 7.4/13.
The Rose Bowl really was the best game of all of the BCS bowls. The Michigan vs.Texas matchup really was one for the ages. The California Golden Bears faded into oblivion after losing to Texas A & M in the Holiday Bowl. California needs to win wire to wire just like SC in order to be taken seriously for the Rose Bowl in 2006.
In the end, only SC’s in-state archrivals, California, Stanford, & UCLA, had close games with the Trojans. The rest of the games were blowouts. SC looks to reload for 2005 and will obviously content for a 3rd national championship.
The BCS will always have problems. It is just like the NCAA tournament. Only a certain number of at-large bids are available. There is always a team on the fence that deserves to get it. There is also a team with an automatic bid that has no place participating. But the rules are what they are. All you really have to do is win and the rest takes care of itself. The bowl games, TV networks, and the big conferences have painted themselves into a very profitable corner. It will take a lot of work and money to break the current moneymaking structure that is the bowl system. If the TV networks stepped up and said, we will pay three times what the BCS pays now to have a playoff, then the conferences and universities would reorganize. Until then, bowls and BCS is what we’ve got.
Dan Wetzel of Yahoo Sports noted:
"The halftime show of this year's NCAA championship game – the Orange Bowl – featured three uninspired performances by two fringe singers and one lip-syncher, while two magnificent college marching bands (Southern California and Oklahoma) looked on. The crowd reacted with thunderous boos to an out-of-place, low-quality show. "
(The Orange Bowl halftime show consisted of Kelly Clarkson, Trace Adkins, and Ashlee Simpson. One of Kelly's singers started to belt out over the top of Kelly, so maybe it was not synch'ed... Adkins was a yawner. Ashlee Simpson was poor. She wailed and danced around for 2 minutes. She wore a cape which exposed some extra poundage. The crowd booed her loudly when she was done. The Orange Bowl organizers figured it was probably backlash from her Saturday Night Live Train Wreck)
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Posted on Friday, January 07, 2005 @ 12:24:31 UTC by BB
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