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USC Morning Buzz: Auburn Claims 2004 National Title

Auburn is officially claiming football national titles in 1910, 1914, 1958, and 2004.

You might remember USC played Oklahoma in the 2004 BCS championship game. Auburn went 13-0 but finished No. 3 in the BCS rankings and missed out on the Orange Bowl, which was the BCS title game.

This is not an April Fool’s joke.

“For too long, Auburn has chosen a humble approach to our program’s storied history – choosing to recognize only Associated Press National Championships,” Auburn athletic director John Cohen told On3. “Starting this fall, we have made the decision to honor the accomplishments of our deserving student-athletes, coaches, and teams from Auburn’s proud history,” Cohen said. “Our visible National Championship recognitions now align with the well-established standard used by the NCAA’s official record book and our peers across the nation.”

USC later vacated the title. Auburn says it is using Darryl Perry and the GBE College Football Ratings to claim the 2004 title. I have no idea who Perry is.

Is part of this the idea of former Auburn coach Tommy Tuberville? This sounds like something he would endorse.

Now it’s not unusual for a school to retroactively claim a title from the old days. USC did it for a national title in the 1930’s. But that’s because there were multiple ranking systems in those days. There wasn’t a BCS system.

Fortunately, people remember who won the national title on the field in 2004.

23 thoughts on “USC Morning Buzz: Auburn Claims 2004 National Title”

  1. Wolf, a Bernie loving Socialist, throws Tubberville, a Trump supporting conservative, under the bus.

    Always knew Wolf had TDS

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    1. KAM: The Tigers finished second in both the AP Top 25 and the coaches’ poll in 2004

      DON: So they are claiming they are next in line since our craven cowardly Woke AD Pat Haden surrendered to the NCAA..

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    2. Good to see a USC fan agrees with Tuberville.

      “I want to congratulate the 2004 Auburn Tigers football team on being recognized as the true national champions of college football of 2004,” Tuberville said. “There is no doubt that the 2004 Auburn team was the best team in the country for the entire season.”

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  3. Sorry Auburn, but that is not the way it works. The #2 team, Oklahoma, does not lose its #2 standing when it loses to the #1 team (USC). So since SC’s title was vacated, Oklahoma is the national champ

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  4. We played them at Auburn Stadium on August 30, 2003 and beat them 23 to 0. They couldn’t score on us. It was a wipe out. Now they claim they were the better team?

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    1. Auburn was supposed to have the best 1-2 rushing attack in the country with Cadillac Williams and Ronnie Brown, but they were stuffed. Auburn had under 200 yards of offense that game. I remember USC didn’t even make use of Reggie and LenDale, Herschel Dennis got all the carries.

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    2. They take their football very seriously in the South. I don’t think Auburn ever got over that game. It was an embarrassment and an indictment of SEC football. The 77 to 7 drubbing of Arkansas didn’t help the SEC either.

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      1. I doubt that the talent level on those early 2000s teams will ever be matched. I recall that the 2003 team had Mike Williams, Keary Colbert, and Steve Smith at WR, and the freshman RBs were Reggie, LenDale, and Chauncey Washington. Reggie was ranked 3rd, Chauncey 7th, and LenDale 12th coming out of HS. Chauncey broke his ankle at some point, and didn’t play much until after Reggie and LenDale left USC early, but I recall one sportswriter who was covering practices at that time (those were the days…thanks Pete!) wrote that Reggie and Chauncey informally raced about half the football field, and Chauncey won by a nose.

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      3. KAM: DON: 21 years ago USC was at the Top of the College Football World. But you could see the horns of jealousy arise in Pete’s head after the game when the media lavished all the praise on Naamie Chow’s offense instead of Pete.

        DON: Pete replaced Naamie with his basketball buddies Drunk Sark and Lame Kiffin. February 9, 2005 was perhaps the worst day in Trojan history. The remaining talent laden Carroll years were squandered while those two clowns learned on the job at our expense. Chow’s absence negatively affected the team’s performance in subsequent seasons. His strategic acumen was seen as crucial during high-pressure games. And then the NCAA posse chased Pete out of town and we have stunk ever since.

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      4. I remember when Chow left to become the offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans. Carroll told Jeff Fisher that Norm was the best play caller he had ever seen. Really? Than why did you replace him with 27 year old Lane Kiffin.

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      1. Marcus Allen, Charles White (RIP), Munoz, Van Horne, Ronnie Lott, Dennis Smith. Does anybody remember what happened in the loss to ASU?

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  5. Oklahoma and Ohio State got in the way of some potentially epic BCS Title games in 2003, 2004,2006,2007 and 2008. They should not have been in any of those games.

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    1. A real shame there were no formal Playoffs back then, because SC would have been favored in 2006, 2007, and 2008

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  6. KAM: If I may butt in here, that’s the way I look at it. SC won the informal National Titles from 2003 through 2008 except 2005 And whose gonna stop me from believing that

    DON: -A remarkable run by Carrot and SC. No wonder the rest of the country wanted to bring SC down

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