Brothers and sisters in college football fanaticism, let us rejoice, for today, there is joy in Mudville.  The valiant Vince Young, the nation's truly most outstanding player, and his burnt-orange Longhorn brethren from Austin, Texas exercised their supremacy over the befuddled Trojans of Southern California, that imposter national champion that, once again, failed to prove on the field it is deserving of any national title.

We certainly come a long way since the Associated Press, in its infinite wisdom, decided that USC's 2004 Rose Bowl victory over a clearly inferior Michigan team deserved a national title over Louisiana State, the true BCS champions who had actually won the championship game.  As if that were not crazy enough, the pundits on TV still act like USC's split title in 2004 was legitimate, even though according to their logic, Auburn deserved a split title in 2005, since they were snubbed from the title game and were clearly more deserving than Oklahoma was. 

In my opinion, Auburn would have defeated USC in 2005, for many of the same reasons (defense, special teams, awesome ground game) that Texas did in 2006, and Auburn plays in the toughest conference in America (read my last post below for why the SEC is the best).  Why should they have been penalized for playing The Citadel, when they still beat every opponent on their schedule, conference and non-conference alike?  Yes, USC did the same, but in a considerably weaker Pac-10 conference in which scoring defense is virtually nonexistent, and parity is sparse.  Quite frankly, USC never showed on the field that they were a better team than the Auburn Tigers, so Auburn should have at minimum had a split title, at least according to the Associated Press' logic in 2004.  But I digress yet again.

As I watched the fourth quarter of Wednesday's game, trepidation spread over me with about 6 1/2 minutes left, as USC had the ball in Longhorn territory and looked as though they may put the game out of reach.  "How can this happen?"  I thought to myself.  The idea of USC winning a legitimate title made me sick; they were certainly not the best team in the country, just a fa