SEC Was Ducking USC Trojans for 5 Years?

[EducatedBrothaFromTheBank]

Who Can Stop The SEC? -- college football - ESPN

USC is 22-11-1 all-time versus the SEC. Of course, very few of those games have taken place in the last 10 years during the SEC's, cough-cough, rise to dominance. It's a well-known college football fact -- I would never make this up -- that SEC athletic directors run and hide behind their desks when the Trojans call, intending to politely ask if said SEC team would be willing to play a game.

Oh, a couple of teams didn't get the memo about ducking USC. Auburn and Arkansas both scheduled home-and-home series with the Trojans this millennium. The end result was four defeats by a combined score of 167-48.

Since USC went to Arkansas and feasted on BBQ pig by a count of 50-14 in 2006 -- the Razorbacks had spent most of the summer blathering about redeeming themselves after suffering a 70-17 beatdown the previous season -- no SEC team has been willing to schedule USC. (That Arkansas team, by the way, won the SEC West and finished 7-1 in conference play while the Trojans lost two Pac-10 games).

It's not hard to imagine what happened after that evisceration in an SEC stadium. SEC commissioner Mike Slive surely called a super-secret meeting to put an end to these shenanigans. Normally well-mannered and patrician, Slive surely slammed his fist on the table, telling SEC administrators, "No more scheduling USC! Why would we create a BCS system that favors us and still play USC, which is going to slap our butts every time, dagnabit!?"

No, really, that probably happened.

In 2007 and 2008, USC had the same number of losses as LSU and Florida, which both won "national championships." The SEC was BCSed into those titles. Does anyone really believe Florida would have beaten USC in 2008? Of course they don't. Don't be silly.

Ah, but the Trojans slipped, no doubt. Pete Carroll, who didn't lose a nonconference game from 2003 to 2009, other than the 2005 national title game, lost his Pac-10 mojo, going 5-4 in conference play in 2009. He saw Oregon rising under Chip Kelly and the NCAA, frothing at the mouth to end USC's run as college football's preeminent program.

So he bolted, and the NCAA irrationally hammered USC with unjustifiable sanctions because it couldn't stand seeing Will Ferrell and Snoop Dogg hanging around practices and making the Trojans look impossibly cool.

But after a two-year postseason ban and a 10-2 finish in 2010, as noted earlier, "They're baaaack." And with Lane Kiffin as their coach, which makes things even more fun due to his beloved and lionized status among SEC fans.

Knock, knock.

Who's there?

USC.

No, don't run away. You're supposed to say "USC who?"

USCee you on Jan. 7 in Miami!

 

[shopthatwrecks]

espn says alot

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

I see they're back to dikkriding USC. This from the same company that has an exclusive apparel deal with the SEC and paid them out the ass torpor rights to the SEC Network. Just building hype for what they hope is the title game. Flexing their muscle

 

[Silkk]

2008 was some BS. Clearly USC was the best team

 

[Wesley Pipes quotes]

I see they're back to dikkriding USC. This from the same company that has an exclusive apparel deal with the SEC and paid them out the ass torpor rights to the SEC Network. Just building hype for what they hope is the title game. Flexing their muscle

I wouldn't call it DCKriding. SEC Teams have won the past 6 Championships so it only making sense that they cover the winners more. dikkriding USC is a little more respectable though, because it was one team and not an entire conference.

 

[DalMem]

Y'all remember when ESPN was calling the 2006 USC team the best college football team ever before they lost to Texas in the National Championship game.

ESPN dikkriding USC is disgusting.

 

[Wesley Pipes quotes]

Y'all remember when ESPN was calling the 2006 USC team the best college football team ever before they lost to Texas in the National Championship game.

ESPN dikkriding USC is disgusting.

It took an act of God by Vince Young to defeat them. 9/10 USC beats Texas by two touchdowns.

9/10 Reggie Bush doesn't go to backyard football and pitch the ball backwards running full speed.

The 2002 Miami Team that lost to Ohio State is still one of the greatest teams ever and they did not win. It happens. Still doesn't negate their greatness.

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

USC has always had the easier path to the title game. The SEC been waiting for them nikkas but they keep standing them up.

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

It took an act of God by Vince Young to defeat them. 9/10 USC beats Texas by two touchdowns.

9/10 Reggie Bush doesn't go to backyard football and pitch the ball backwards running full speed.

The 2002 Miami Team that lost to Ohio State is still one of the greatest teams ever and they did not win. It happens. Still doesn't negate their greatness.

They lost nikka. Period.

 

[O.iatlhawksfan]

All this trash talkin, yu guys BETTER be in the title game this year

 

[Illeye buckmatic]

fukk the sec

 

[Silkk]

All this trash talkin, yu guys BETTER be in the title game this year

LSU Wont Be There

 

[Wesley Pipes quotes]

USC has always had the easier path to the title game. The SEC been waiting for them nikkas but they keep standing them up.

Now I know why people dislike SEC fans.

How do you compare one team to an entire conference?

Doesn't that prove inferiority?

 

[MAKAVELI25]

They lost nikka. Period.

So that 07 Patriots weren't the best team in the league that year?

 

[Jesus Shuttlesworth]

Now I know why people dislike SEC fans.

How do you compare one team to an entire conference?

Doesn't that prove inferiority?

I'm not an SEC fan, just stating facts.

The SEC is there every year? Where USC be at?