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I love this time of year. Delusional SC fans get excited about one win and start forgetting about losing to stanford at home, losing to Oregon, beating Arizona by 1TD at home, beating Washington by a FG, Cal by a TD, and focus on the most recent victory.

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Funny how we were missing a ton of guys for all those games including the qb for 3/5 of those games. Funny how now that we're healthy we beat the best or second best team in the pac 10 by 20 points in their house. Oregon won by 12 in their own house, and needed two unbelievably boneheaded turnovers by ASU when they were in scoring position to even have that margin of victory. We were only going to beat teams like AZ by small margins because our offensive coordinator didn't trust Sanchez and called ridiculously conservatively plays, like consistently running it on 3rd and long. I made a post to a similar effect right after that game, and said to expect narrow margins of victory as long as Sanchez stayed in.
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The best was walking out of the Rose Bowl last year and hearing some SC fan say, "so there's a real chance we'll be #1!!

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Was this after we lost to UCLA or after we pounded Michigan? Either way Sagarin's final ratings had USC #1 in the predictor and #2 overall. Didn't get to the national championship b/c of the boneheaded UCLA loss but still were probably the best team in the country.