USC Trojans: 2-time AP National Champions!

With the sanctions leveled against the University of Southern California football program yesterday, they had to forfeit their win in the 2005 Orange Bowl, a 55-19 shellacking of Oklahoma in what was the BCS national championship game. The BCS is likely to strip USC of their championship.

Auburn, which finished undefeated that season (and should have been in the championship ahead of both USC and Oklahoma but that's another argument for another day) has begun stumping for that season's crown. Tommy Tuberville, their former head coached who was almost replaced by Bobby Petrino prior to the 2004 season and was fired after the 2008 season, is now saying there should be a re-vote and Auburn should be declared the champion. It must be noted that Auburn would owe Tuberville a $300,000 bonus for winning the crown, 300 grand that I'm sure would go a long way toward improving his quality of life in Lubbock, where he is beginning his first season as Texas Tech's head coach.

More likely, the title will left vacat and there will be no official 2004 BCS national champion. There will, however, be an Associated Press champion and that will remain USC. The AP confirmed today that USC will hold on to their championship, one that was rendered irrelevant in 1998 when the BCS was born.

With that, USC is now the 2003 and 2004 AP national champion but not the 2003 BCS national champion (LSU holds that crown) and most likely not the 2004 BCS national champion either.