USCDoom
Death On Black Wings
Uhhhh, USC was #1 in Both Polls when the Season Ended...The BCS was created by the conferences themselves specifically to stop split titles. To have the #1 and #2 teams play each other at the end of the year and settle it on the field. It took years before it was approved by all the conferences because some conferences were more worried about protecting bowl games. So the only way the BCS could ever happen is with the approval of the conferences, no different than the playoffs(which the pac12 also blocked for many years).
The AP is just a group of sportswriters from around the country and has absolutely nothing to do with the schools/conferences, or how they decide to crown the champions. The schools have no say over it, and the AP excluded itself from being part of the BCS.
Basically, it would be like the press saying - well New England won the Super Bowl, but Denver is also the national champion - look at our shiny poll from sportswriters across the country. We don't agree with what happened on the field, so we crown our own!.
It's a bullshit claim and sour grapes. The #1 and #2 teams played on the field to settle the national champion in a format created and agreed upon by the conferences.