We have been greatly amused the past few weeks at all of those people out there who thought that USC should be slated to play in the BCS title game.  Where are you guys now?  We can’t hear you anymore.  In fact, we’re not sure you all of you out there were clamoring about with this Trojan team anyway.

They said that USC was banged up against Stanford; that the game was a fluke and not reflective of how good USC actually was.  Well what do you think now?

We were glad to see the final nail driven into the coffin that was the USC national championship hopes.  The team that everyone thought was entitled to be ranked in the top 10 no matter what they did on the field finally played their way out of contention.  And it couldn’t have made us happier.

We knew all along that USC was not deserving of its lofty ranking, or even a top-15 ranking.  Following the Trojans loss to Stanford, they struggled with a sorry Arizona team.  Then, after whipping a worthless Notre Dame team, everyone wanted to put them back in the title game.  People wanted them ranked ahead of undefeated teams like Arizona State and Kansas.  And ahead of other 1-loss teams like LSU and Oregon.

But where are all those people now?  Oregon made USC look like just another average Pac-10 team on Saturday.  And the Trojans were shown to nowhere near worthy of a shot at the BCS championship - even though you all thought they were a championship caliber team just one week ago.  Well, they’re not.

And yes, we’ve heard people out there who still think USC is the best team in the country.  Well we have news for you - they are not even the best team in the Pac-10 anymore.  No matter what you might think.  USC has two losses, both in conference, so there is no way they are the top team in that conference.

We think it’s most appropriate to finish up this piece with our own modification of the great lines uttered by Ice Cube: Freaking brothers everywhere like m.j./ USC lost, today was a good day.