Bowl Officials Strip Southern Cal of 2004 National Championship

June 7, 2011, 9:06 am

Citing NCAA rules violations at the University of Southern California, the college presidents who oversee the Bowl Championship Series have vacated Southern Cal’s 2004 national championship in football. The decision, announced on Monday, comes nearly two weeks after the NCAA denied Southern Cal’s appeal of stiff penalties the association imposed last year for major rules violations in the Trojans’ football and men’s basketball programs.

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profputr

Does this mean Oklahoma gets the title?
Socratease2

Yes, at least until the NCAA discovers hidden scandal there also, eventually the title will pass down through all the D-I schools continuing through D-II and D-III until it reaches a school that is found to have operated within the rules. My guess is that school will be St. Mary’s Girls High School. But not sure I trust those Catholic girls either.
bnichols23

I guess so. Reckon they’ll have a parade/pah-tay/festival? :)
syzygy808

No, the title will be vacated.
bnichols23

You’re awful. }:)
willynilly

Southern Cal would never have won the national title in the first place if the game officials had done their job in the Notre Dame/Southern Cal game. A clear and definitive rule was broken on the play that was allowed to stand when Reggie Bush scored an illegal touchdown very late in the game to give Southern Cal a victory by just a few points. Bush, on a fourth down play at the one yard line, was stopped short of the goal by the Notre Dame defense – but given a slow whistle and a clear picture of two Southern Cal players pushing Bush across the goal line after he was stopped cold gave the win to So. Cal and the national championship. A flag should have been thrown and the penalty for that infraction should have been assessed. The rule states that a player cannot push his teammate forward so as to achieve a first down or a touchdown. So good for the NCAA. Let them be embarassed. It is their own doing that permitted an illegal play, by an illegal player to elevate an illegal program to win the national championship.