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Originally posted by amycat412
 I agree with that statement on the surface, but... it also goes back to my strength of schedule argument...
Iowa is playing the 40th toughest sched and has 1 loss
USC is playing the TOUGHEST sched and has 2 losses
Give Iowa (or Gerogia, Miami, Ohio St, Okla for that matter) a tougher sched or USC an easier sched and THEN the playing and ranking fields are a bit more fair.
Yeah, I'm a RABID SC fan, and so my take is biased. But USC in top 10 or not, its just not a fair system.
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As much as it kills me to say it - GOOD TEAMS FIND A WAY TO WIN. I'm not an Ohio State fan at all - but even when they struggled to win games (and they did struggle against Purdue, Illinois and Michigan) they did win them and are 13-0. Same with Miami, they struggled with Rutgers and Pitt, but they are undefeated. A good team with a solid defense, a working offense, and a good coach - can pull out those wins. And that is why they are #1 and #2...
USC is a great team, you won't get any arguments from me about that, but lets take a look at those losses:
WA State 30-27 in OT
Kansas State 27-20
Both of them could have been won by either team. A good team finds a way to win every game. If USC had won both of those games, no doubt they would be sitting pretty at #1 in the BCS.