So rained down the  chants in unison from the Trojan faithful without abandon upon the battered and beaten Ohio State Buckeyes, as the number 1 ranked USC Trojans made a complete mockery of any notion that Ohio State could redeem itself and its highly criticized conference on a national stage against an elite football program.

In recent years, Ohio State has relied upon riding the coat tails of the automatic BCS bid by winning the weak Big Ten Conference while bullying lesser divisional opponents and avoiding true tests against proven football powers all season long.

After two consecutive embarrassing BCS Championship Game losses, Ohio State was supposedly out to show the world they were indeed a legit football team capable of winning the National Title.

Instead, all the Buckeyes managed to accomplish this Saturday evening was to assure the football public that they would be spared the agony of having to watch yet another throttling of the undeserving Big Ten school in the BCS Championship Game for a third straight year as the USC Trojans dominated the Buckeyes on both sides of the football throughout the entire game and skated their way to a convincing 35-3 shellacking.

If anything was proven tonight, it was that perhaps USC is under-rated, as hard as that may be to believe.

There is already talk that this is the best USC team ever assembled under head coach, Pete Carroll. With all-time greats like Reggie Bush, Matt Leinart, and Carson Palmer to just name a few, that is a pretty astounding statement.

From what the world just saw tonight, even against a team that has struggled repeatedly against the perennial football powers in recent years, those claims appear to be accurate.

What is certain is that USC has tremendous speed, intensity, and talent on both sides of the football and the Pac 10 team is yet to meet an opposing defense or offensive that it can not contain or expose.

With the Buckeyes out of the way, there are no obvious pitfalls awaiting the Trojans as they march towards Miami to appear in yet another BCS Championship.

Even then, what team can possibly claim they can match up with USC?

One of the SEC powers, whether it be Georgia, Florida, Auburn, or Alabama will undoubtedly face the mighty Trojans in that game, but I seriously doubt its a matchup that any one of those programs will relish.

After what we saw tonight, can you blame them?