We here at CIV developed a Roll of Honor a while back to honor those people in sports who “read” our blog and then act accordingly. Already, NBA commissioner David Stern has the made the cut, as well as NBC Executives and Mississippi journalist Parrish Alford. But today, we are adding a new member to the role of honor… ESPN college football writer Mark Schlabach.

Congratulations, Mark!

See, on Tuesday, we wrote a post on this blog about why USC did not deserve to be ranked number 1. About how their two wins weren’t as impressive as the talking heads seemed to think. We even used something called “logic” to prove our point. You can check out that post by clicking here.

Then, we’re browsing ESPN.com today, and what do we come across? An article from Schlabach explaining that USC maybe should not have been ranked so highly. that maybe their early wins weren’t that impressive. This, of course, comes a day after USC loss and 4 days after we wrote the exact same thing. Only we did not need USC to lose in order to realize their first two wins weren’t that great.

Seriously, did it really take USC losing for a sports writer to point out that Virginia got crushed by UConn and is a touchdown underdog to Duke???

But then again, we don’t give sports writers any credit for having a working brain. And rightfully so.

If nothing else for USC, at least they have supportive fans to help get them back on track. What? They did not even fill up the visitor section of the game in Corvallis last night? Yikes.