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Tony Barnhart
Here are the top 10 in the first BCS standings and a road map of how each can get to the BCS championship game.
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2. SOUTHERN CAL (6-0)
The Trojans had another less than impressive win (28-21) over Arizona State on Saturday. Still, they are getting a lot of mileage out of the 50-14 win over Arkansas on Sept. 2. But it's hard to see Southern Cal going through the final stretch of Oregon (Nov. 11), California (Nov. 18), Notre Dame (Nov. 25) and UCLA (Dec. 2) without a loss. All but UCLA are at home.
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10. CALIFORNIA (6-1)
The Bears have been on a tear since losing their opening game to Tennessee (35-18). Jeff Tedford's team should be 9-1 when it travels to Southern Cal on Nov. 18. Among the one-loss teams it appears California has the longest shot.
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Obviously, we need a playoff. But absent that, it sure would help if the so-called experts would stop proclaiming which is the better or best conference--an argument that is fundamentally unresolvable because there simply isn't enough interconference football on which to base judgment. It's safe to say Cal is indeed the one-loss team with the "longest shot", while Florida and Auburn are sitting relatively pretty. But why? All three have lost just once, convincingly to a quality SEC team, with Auburn's loss coming at home. Yet, the assumption seems to be that Cal (and by extension, the Pac-10) must be worse than all the SEC, while for Florida and Auburn it's dismissed as "just one game". Just as USC smoking Arkansas and Cal crushing Minnesota didn't prove the Pac-10's superiority over the SEC or Big 10, Cal's season-opening loss to UT was just that, a single loss to a very good opponent on the road. The good news, though, is I just don't care. I'd much rather the Bears play in the Rose Bowl anyway than in some B(C)S "championship" game out in middle of the Arizona suburban desert. It's just too bad we'll likely be stuck with the Big 10 runner up, and not the champ.
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