If the CFP existed SC would’ve won 02, 03, 04, 06, 07, 08. Realistically dam well should’ve won in 05 vs Texas. The BCS always found ways to leave SC out of the National Title game knowing full well they would beat whoever was on the other side.
SC didn’t belong there ND instead should be there ND won the rights to be in the National championship game in 05 Matt liner got to out of bounce with :07 seconds left without Reggie Bush SC would have not probably not made in those years
Always. USC would lose one game early and always get left out. OU could lose whenever where ever and always get the not to then wet the bed vs the SEC.
@@ericdaniel323 what year ? OU wet the bed vs Kstate in 03 and wet the bed vs Texas in 08 but got to play for both natties despite USC being more worthy
Just looked at the results of that season....No one wanted to play USC that year. they Beat Virginia 52-7, Ohio St. 35-3, Oregon 44-10 (a give me touchdown) Arizona st 28-0, Wash. St. 69-0, Washington 56-0, California 17-3, Stanford 45-23, Notre Dame 38-3, UCLA, 28-7, and was beating Penn St. in the Rosebowl by 30 at Halftime, when Pete Carroll took everybody out... in the 2nd Half! F _ _ cking hick-up against Oreg. St and the Rogers brothers cost them the NC... if playoffs were in back then, USC would of took it!
@@mwan245 How when FL had no downfield passing game? Pete was 4-0 vs SEC teams and those teams featured running combos like Felix Jones, Mcfadden, Ronnie Brown, and Cadillac. Tebow was not running over Maualuga Cushing Rivers & Taylor Mays.
The good ol days when the Coliseum use to be rocking. So many players on this roster that played in the NFL. Hate seeing Clay Helton + his juco staff at the helm.
USC has the fairest of fair weather fans (except maybe Miami). When they are winning they are the toast of the town. When they aren’t, no one cares about them.
The top teams in the Big 10 was so garbage in the Pete Carroll error. They were slow as hell and that's why I hate that used to let USC play in that Rose Bowl because all the athletic team such as Florida LSU Georgia-Florida state had a bunch of athletic Brothers on those teams and those teams will beat up on each other why are USC had an easy path how to play slow Big 10 teams yeah they beat Oklahoma but everybody was being Oklahoma it's just when USC beat Oklahoma the media made a big deal out of it. Yeah they beat Arkansas in Auburn but LSU beat many Pac 10 teams as well matter fact LSU played a conference champion pac-10 Oregon teen and blew them out. The reason why Pete Carroll dominated the Pac-12 because it wasn't no big-time coaches in the Pac-12 until Hardball and Chip Kelly got there. When you look at the SEC in the early 2000s you had about five coaches that had one national championships and majority of athletic players especially the black ones are in southern states such as Florida Louisiana Georgia Texas. Don't nobody go to the West Coast to recruit defensive lineman or should I say athletic defensive lineman LOL like really when was the last time somebody was fighting for recruits in Arizona or Oregon. Ain't no brothers in them state. Since USC is a private school and they can accept anybody who they want . So if I have all the team with all the athletic Brothers while the conference is an academic conference. So USC was not playing the Ray Ray's and Pookie's take Florida or LSU out the SEC and let them play in the Pac-10 they would have been undefeated as well.
USC would have beaten all those teams. Not only did they have dynamic offenses but Pete Carroll always had the best defenses in all of college football (NFL too) specifically this 2008 team. Taylor Mays, Brian Cushing, Rey Maualuga, and Clay Matthews Jr. flying all over the place. You act like USC was scheduling cupcakes. They always played Big 10, SEC, and ACC opponents during that span through the 00's. They couldn't help they played in a weaker Pac but they still made up for it at the end of each season beating some of the best from other conferences. California is a mecca for football. We might not have all the meat like the South but we sure do have a whole lot of other positional players. USC has had it's share of great defensive players throughout history that are homegrown too. The best of the best HS players always want to play for a brand school all over the nation and USC has always been the one out West. There's been debate of USC going independent like Notre Dame because we keep getting disrespected due to the conference we play in.
Tuwaun Law except USC had 3 dominant linebackers that still currently play in the NFL. And they weren't brothers lol. Even the SEC doesnt throw out 3 very good to great NFL linebackers on one team
HipHopR&BLover Jon so I was gonna play lb this year there but I saw Brian Cushing in the weight room and I said nahhhh lol. Give me a school in Florida lol.
For over 50 years USC utterly dominated current Big 10 teams. From 1962-2014 USCs record vs Big 10 schools was. (Also using point differential in these games) 7-1 vs Illinois (USC +183) 3-0 vs Indiana (USC +53) 6-0 vs Iowa (USC +180) 6-1 vs Michigan (USC +49) 4-4 vs Michigan State (USC +45) 5-0-1 vs Minnesota (USC +73) 4-0-1 vs Nebraska (USC +49) 3-0 vs Northwestern (USC +68) 9-3 vs Ohio State (USC +93) 5-4 vs Penn State (Penn State +1) 3-1 vs Purdue (USC +40) 3-0 vs Wisconsin (USC +60) 58-14-2 (55-13-1 vs teams that were in the Big 10 at the time, USC is 1-0 vs Nebraska and 5-3 vs Penn State when they are in the Big10) USC was 20-1-2 at Home (Illinois had a 1 point win at USC, Minnesota tied them, as well as Nebraska though they were in the Big 8 at the time) 20-6 on the Road 16-5 in Rose Bowl 1-0 in Orange Bowl 0-1 in Sun Bowl 1-0 in the Holiday 0-1 in the Fiesta
This is one of the few times you will see Ohio State completely outclassed in all facets of the game, this same OSU team damn near beat the 2008 Texas team which was great but this USC team was on another level and if there was a playoff they would have been the champs.
as an Ohio state fan I jsur occasionally come back and watch this just to remember how ridiculously dominant USC was this year. by far the most talented team in the country in 08, sometimes the best team doesn’t always get to compete for the title dude to some BS, (like us in 2015 when we slipped up)
i tell people all of the time, that was one of Pete Carroll's best teams... I think they had like 4 shut outs that year, a couple of games where their opponent had 7 pts or less...they had 1 hick-up against Oregon St. on a Thurs. nighr, and that kept them out of the National Championship.
steven carlos I agree, I would of loved to see USC against Tebow"s Gators or the Oklahoma team that they eventually beat with Sam Bradford...both of them had 1 lost, also, but because Oregon State wasn't ranked, the BCS penalized USC more for that...unfair
Kam Lifestyles ... SC had 3 straight hiccups,3 years in a row against teams they should've beat(06'vs.UCLA,07'vs.Stanford & 08'vs.Oregon State).those losses kept them from playing in 6 straight National Championship Games! That would've/could've been such an Iconic Dynasty that No other Great Teams could've ever Touched!
USC was Alabama of the 2000s. Would’ve won even more national championships if there was a playoff then and their success led to the need for a playoff
Yea I remember a couple of years where USC lost to the likes of a crappy Stanford or Oregon State at the time, and then they had to settle for the Rose Bowl.
steven carlos yup they always had one or two bad losses every year that prevented them from going to the national championship game. But when they were winning they were crushing teams
If the CFP existed SC would’ve won 02, 03, 04, 06, 07, 08. Realistically dam well should’ve won in 05 vs Texas. The BCS always found ways to leave SC out of the National Title game knowing full well they would beat whoever was on the other side.
SC didn’t belong there ND instead should be there ND won the rights to be in the National championship game in 05 Matt liner got to out of bounce with :07 seconds left without Reggie Bush SC would have not probably not made in those years
@@Dekufan22 ND fans smh! They proved how inferior they were in the Sugar Bowl getting thumped by LSU.
Always. USC would lose one game early and always get left out. OU could lose whenever where ever and always get the not to then wet the bed vs the SEC.
@@Drummajortsu that was a different year. But SC was still the better team.
@@ericdaniel323 what year ? OU wet the bed vs Kstate in 03 and wet the bed vs Texas in 08 but got to play for both natties despite USC being more worthy
Fight on in peace Joe 🙏🏾
Just looked at the results of that season....No one wanted to play USC that year. they Beat Virginia 52-7, Ohio St. 35-3, Oregon 44-10 (a give me touchdown) Arizona st
28-0, Wash. St. 69-0, Washington 56-0, California 17-3, Stanford 45-23, Notre Dame 38-3, UCLA, 28-7, and was beating Penn St. in the Rosebowl by 30 at Halftime, when Pete Carroll took everybody out... in the 2nd Half! F _ _ cking hick-up against Oreg. St and the Rogers brothers cost them the NC... if playoffs were in back then, USC would of took it!
They wouldve lost to Florida
JonMwan G no fucking way. Not in that late season form they were in. They could have taken OU one week and came back for Florida after that.
@@mwan245 How when FL had no downfield passing game? Pete was 4-0 vs SEC teams and those teams featured running combos like Felix Jones, Mcfadden, Ronnie Brown, and Cadillac. Tebow was not running over Maualuga Cushing Rivers & Taylor Mays.
@@Drummajortsu Don't forget Clay Mathews and Everson Griffon were on that defense too and a young Malik Jackson.
Fuck no ! ncaa avoided SC so they wouldn’t embarrass the sec in a natty.
The good ol days when the Coliseum use to be rocking. So many players on this roster that played in the NFL. Hate seeing Clay Helton + his juco staff at the helm.
USC has the fairest of fair weather fans (except maybe Miami). When they are winning they are the toast of the town. When they aren’t, no one cares about them.
This team should have played for the national title. That defense would have destroyed Tebow.
HipHopR&BLover Jon ... if that 2008 team was playing in this current playoff system, SC would definitely be in... we should have won it that year
The top teams in the Big 10 was so garbage in the Pete Carroll error. They were slow as hell and that's why I hate that used to let USC play in that Rose Bowl because all the athletic team such as Florida LSU Georgia-Florida state had a bunch of athletic Brothers on those teams and those teams will beat up on each other why are USC had an easy path how to play slow Big 10 teams yeah they beat Oklahoma but everybody was being Oklahoma it's just when USC beat Oklahoma the media made a big deal out of it. Yeah they beat Arkansas in Auburn but LSU beat many Pac 10 teams as well matter fact LSU played a conference champion pac-10 Oregon teen and blew them out. The reason why Pete Carroll dominated the Pac-12 because it wasn't no big-time coaches in the Pac-12 until Hardball and Chip Kelly got there. When you look at the SEC in the early 2000s you had about five coaches that had one national championships and majority of athletic players especially the black ones are in southern states such as Florida Louisiana Georgia Texas. Don't nobody go to the West Coast to recruit defensive lineman or should I say athletic defensive lineman LOL like really when was the last time somebody was fighting for recruits in Arizona or Oregon. Ain't no brothers in them state. Since USC is a private school and they can accept anybody who they want . So if I have all the team with all the athletic Brothers while the conference is an academic conference. So USC was not playing the Ray Ray's and Pookie's take Florida or LSU out the SEC and let them play in the Pac-10 they would have been undefeated as well.
USC would have beaten all those teams. Not only did they have dynamic offenses but Pete Carroll always had the best defenses in all of college football (NFL too) specifically this 2008 team. Taylor Mays, Brian Cushing, Rey Maualuga, and Clay Matthews Jr. flying all over the place. You act like USC was scheduling cupcakes. They always played Big 10, SEC, and ACC opponents during that span through the 00's. They couldn't help they played in a weaker Pac but they still made up for it at the end of each season beating some of the best from other conferences. California is a mecca for football. We might not have all the meat like the South but we sure do have a whole lot of other positional players. USC has had it's share of great defensive players throughout history that are homegrown too. The best of the best HS players always want to play for a brand school all over the nation and USC has always been the one out West. There's been debate of USC going independent like Notre Dame because we keep getting disrespected due to the conference we play in.
Tuwaun Law except USC had 3 dominant linebackers that still currently play in the NFL. And they weren't brothers lol. Even the SEC doesnt throw out 3 very good to great NFL linebackers on one team
HipHopR&BLover Jon so I was gonna play lb this year there but I saw Brian Cushing in the weight room and I said nahhhh lol. Give me a school in Florida lol.
Those days the big 10 teams had no chance against Pete Carroll’s teams
2006 Michigan
2007 Illinois
2008 Ohio state and penn state
Ohio State should have beat them in 2009 but they didn't. At least they won the Rose Bowl against Oregon, who smashed USC that year.
Douglas H. Game should have been at least 10-21 I thought it should have been 13-21
For over 50 years USC utterly dominated current Big 10 teams. From 1962-2014 USCs record vs Big 10 schools was. (Also using point differential in these games)
7-1 vs Illinois (USC +183)
3-0 vs Indiana (USC +53)
6-0 vs Iowa (USC +180)
6-1 vs Michigan (USC +49)
4-4 vs Michigan State (USC +45)
5-0-1 vs Minnesota (USC +73)
4-0-1 vs Nebraska (USC +49)
3-0 vs Northwestern (USC +68)
9-3 vs Ohio State (USC +93)
5-4 vs Penn State (Penn State +1)
3-1 vs Purdue (USC +40)
3-0 vs Wisconsin (USC +60)
58-14-2 (55-13-1 vs teams that were in the Big 10 at the time, USC is 1-0 vs Nebraska and 5-3 vs Penn State when they are in the Big10)
USC was
20-1-2 at Home (Illinois had a 1 point win at USC, Minnesota tied them, as well as Nebraska though they were in the Big 8 at the time)
20-6 on the Road
16-5 in Rose Bowl
1-0 in Orange Bowl
0-1 in Sun Bowl
1-0 in the Holiday
0-1 in the Fiesta
This is one of the few times you will see Ohio State completely outclassed in all facets of the game, this same OSU team damn near beat the 2008 Texas team which was great but this USC team was on another level and if there was a playoff they would have been the champs.
as an Ohio state fan I jsur occasionally come back and watch this just to remember how ridiculously dominant USC was this year. by far the most talented team in the country in 08, sometimes the best team doesn’t always get to compete for the title dude to some BS, (like us in 2015 when we slipped up)
Times change Timmy 🤣
Now you know why the NCAA waited for Pete Carroll to go back to the NFL before implementing a Playoff in FBS college Football.
that combo of Maualuga and Cushing was so potent for that Trojan D, by far the trojans second best team! #GreatnessToCome #FightOnSC!!!
Boy this was rough. USC destroyed us on this day. Had nothing for them...
Ahh ,the glory days ! With Uncle Pete.
George Robles y'all do realize that y'all have won 21 of your last 24 and a Rose Bowl and a PAC - 12 title
And then they went to Corvallis.....(sigh).....
USC used to bust people's A**. D was too strong. O was a monster.
i tell people all of the time, that was one of Pete Carroll's best teams... I think they had like 4 shut outs that year, a couple of games where their opponent had 7 pts or less...they had 1 hick-up against Oregon St. on a Thurs. nighr, and that kept them out of the National Championship.
Kam Lifestyles that Oregon State game was the only one I didn't watch live and it was BS that just cause of that 1 loss we were left out
steven carlos I agree, I would of loved to see USC against Tebow"s Gators or the Oklahoma team that they eventually beat with Sam Bradford...both of them had 1 lost, also, but because Oregon State wasn't ranked, the BCS penalized USC more for that...unfair
USC lost on the Road too and Florida Lost In their Own Stadium.
Kam Lifestyles man i wanted ro see SC against florida in 06 and 08..
Kam Lifestyles ... SC had 3 straight hiccups,3 years in a row against teams they should've beat(06'vs.UCLA,07'vs.Stanford & 08'vs.Oregon State).those losses kept them from playing in 6 straight National Championship Games! That would've/could've been such an Iconic Dynasty that No other Great Teams could've ever Touched!
I love watching these clips from the 2008 season. Do you have more of these? You should upload if you do they're fantastic.
Miss these damn years. But honestly this is when the hiccups started happening to Stanford and Oregon state and UCLA 🤦♂️
That defense was stacked from defensive line all the way to the secondary.. the linebackers were rey, matthews, cushing.
Usc’s only team they couldn’t beat was east coast bias and the BCS
And Oregon State apparently
Believe it or not, this was not O-States worst loss against USC. 1989 42-3.
Man those days usc would lay the hammer on teams!!!
USC was Alabama of the 2000s. Would’ve won even more national championships if there was a playoff then and their success led to the need for a playoff
Yea I remember a couple of years where USC lost to the likes of a crappy Stanford or Oregon State at the time, and then they had to settle for the Rose Bowl.
steven carlos yup they always had one or two bad losses every year that prevented them from going to the national championship game. But when they were winning they were crushing teams
Nah USC actually played top 10 teams out of conference ON THE ROAD. E.g. @ #6 Auburn, @ #9 Notre Dame, @ #5 Ohio State. Alabama DOES NOT DO THAT.
I came here to live in the past. Hopefully our future will be this bright. FIGHT ON!!!!!
They had the #1 defense and 5th ranked offense idk how they didn’t play for the bcs title them vs Florida would’ve been a great ass game
That SC defense that year was scary.
I have a feeling McKnight would not be as effective if they played today.
My first year of college! I was here!~
Dam I miss these day. RIP Joe
RIP JOE! Trojan FOREVER!
Highest rated recruit ever for USC Joe McKnight
VIVA MARK SANCHEZ!!!!!
we beat big time!! bring them on in 2017
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