Death Sentence? My kid washed the car with my LSU National Champs T-shirt
Let me be blasphemous for a second, and say LSU beat OU 21-14, surviving an Arkansas-styled coaching breakdown when OU didn't pound a tired LSU team at game's end. OU takes an arguably healthier and better team into the Orange Bowl the next year against an unchanged USC team and loses 55-19. From a comparative score aspect, USC is justified in the threepeat. Look at USC-Arkansas this year. A conference can play at a high level and send beaucoups players to the pros, but college is a different animal. Until a playoff is instituted, it's a beauty contest judged by Herbstriet, Cook, May, et al.