USC.

Texas.

Trojans and Longhorns. Royal and McKay. Akers and Robinson. Marcus Allen v Earl Campbell, James Street and Pat Haden, Johnny 'Lam' Jones and Lynn Swann.

Now it's  Leinart and Vince Young's turn. Reggie Bush and Jamaal Charles. A stiff Longhorn defense against the best offense college football has ever seen.

Now we get a National Championship game so good, we can drop the "Mythical" for this year.

The BCS got lucky - yet again.

Now ask me if I care - this year.

Yes, I'll watch some of the other games, but they're all just a setup for The Big One. Perhaps it is all hype, but when your number 1 and 2 teams win their final games (a conference championship and blood feud rivalry game) by a combined score of 136-22 (and 13 of those 22 came against the 3rd string of USC), they are worthy of the hype.

 Now let's just hope that the game lives up to it.