AP drops BYU from 15 to 18

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by ute4ever

I am curious how exactly USC became "your" team. Do you pay them alumni association dollars? Do you have immediate family who attended? Did you work on campus during your youth?

It is this amazing story....one that I would venture is unique: I was born and raised in Southern California.

To add to this crazy tale of serendipity, I also somehow stumbled across these teams called the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Lakers.

But enough about me. I am more interested in hearing how people who grow in Utah become Utah or BYU fans.

PS yes, family attended SC, as well

[ute4ever]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

But enough about me. I am more interested in hearing how people who grow in Utah become Utah or BYU fans.

Personally, I attended the University of Utah and spent most of my teenage years living less than two miles from campus, and attended high school less than two miles from campus.

There are many schools in Southern California. Why did you choose to latch onto USC?

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by ute4ever

Personally, I attended the University of Utah and spent most of my teenage years living less than two miles from campus, and attended high school less than two miles from campus.

There are many schools in Southern California. Why did you choose to latch onto USC?

Fair question.

My older brother went there. He went in the late 70s/early 80s..right when Marcus was there. Our family is an SC family. Sister, niece, etc... If not for joining the Church, I would have gone, as well.

When Marcus left, he was drafted by the Raiders, which led to my NFL affiliation. Growing up in LA in the 80s....I just assumed all LA teams won championships all the time. Marcus won a Super Bowl with the Raiders. The Dodgers won 2 World Series and were almost always in the playoffs. The Lakers won 5 of 8. The 90s were a massive wake-up call for LA sports...no championships, both NFL teams leave, SC goes into the proverbial tank.

Fast forward to the 2000s and things have returned to normalcy in LA sports. And this Saturday, my older brother and I are going to the SC game together.

[BigFatMeanie]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

try this one. no music, just a neverending onslaught of band geeks.

I love how he pans on the fat flag waver at the 1:28 mark.

[BYUTexan]

Originally Posted by BarbaraGordon

That's a bit of an extreme example, though, because you're not comparing to an average or prototypical BCS team. You're comparing to the premier team of the decade. USC is given more benefit of the doubt than any team in the nation, BYU included. The Trojans didn't even play this week and they picked up something like a dozen #1 votes.

Seattle's being a dork, but at the same time you're overstating things to suggest, "Oh! They dropped us! They must hate non-BCS schools!" It's not exactly a BCS/nonBCS thing. For example, if Kansas makes it up to the top five and then drops a game, they're going to be punished in the polls a lot more than Oklahoma or Texas would for dropping the same game. Not only are Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas all BCS schools, but they're all in the same conference.

So it's not a BCS-nonBCS thing. It's just a preconception thing about which schools "should" be ranked where.

LSU is the premier team of the decade winning 2 BCS titles to USC's 1.

[cougjunkie]

We Are Sc! We Are Sc! We Are Sc!

[BarbaraGordon]

Originally Posted by BYUTexan

LSU is the premier team of the decade winning 2 BCS titles to USC's 1.

I know. I never said they were the premier team. I even referred later to the "only one title" fact.

I think Mike or Archaea must have dropped that line into my quote because they know I hate SC.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by BYUTexan

LSU is the premier team of the decade winning 2 BCS titles to USC's 1.

As long as SC is in the conversation, I am fine.

[TripletDaddy]

Originally Posted by BigFatMeanie

I love how he pans on the fat flag waver at the 1:28 mark.

LOL. That is a motley looking crew, for sure.

Towards the end it looked more like a Far Side cartoon than real human beings.

[ute4ever]

For you band geeks, did you see the halftime show where Cal (or maybe it was Stanford)'s band played Nintendo themes and mimicked the various games? Mario going down the pipes, Zelda (Link?) fighting bad guys, etc.