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Deep pockets make a bowl a major these days.  I was pretty happy when the Peach invited SEC 6 and ACC 2, the games were usually good and it sold out.  They did that for a number of years, the ACC team got a larger payout.  Folks came and enjoyed the experience, I think on NYE.  It worked pretty nicely for a minor bowl.

I recall when the Gator was probably the next best bowl after the four majors.  Getting there meant you had a pretty good year, like 9-2.    Then the Citrus took over as the next best, the highest payout other than a major. 

Speaking of which, when did QBs largely stop calling their own plays?

Yeah it was very regional, which is why I never really cared much about it.  Just personal opinion of course.

And OU.

But if OU and Vandy get it, then give it to Texas...

But it would have to be split with LSU.  

So it's decided.  LSU and Texas share the title this year.  Glad you all agree.  

Apparently, Bama has the most SB appearances, and wins.  Or so they claim ...

UGA has two Rose Bowl wins, which is kind neat, and they have played every Blue Blood of whatever ilk, Oklahoma only the once when Mayfield thought he had it locked up.

I think people play up the "greatest team ever" thing with 2005 USC.  It's true that the Trojans got a lot of national talk about maybe being the greatest offense ever.  I don't remember any delusions about greatest defense ever.  In fact, I remember many people talking about how the defense wasn't nearly as good as 2004 or even 2003.  (They were right, but that's neither here nor there when talking about perception.)  And Texas had a crap-ton of their own hype.  Like.....a lot.  I remember it really well.  It was an exciting time to be in Austin, even for a non-fan, because all week I listened to pundits talk about how great they were and how VY was the greatest single player they had ever seen, along with Reggie Bush, the other greatest single player they had ever seen.  And when it came down to it, USC was favored by 7.  That's not exactly zOMG TeXAs staNdz NO cHANCe lol!

I think the fans got in on the disrespect card teams like to play and some of them never recovered from it.  Where I think they have a point is in just how few pundits picked Texas.  Even though they loved Texas, they weren't willing to pick them.  

I picked Texas back then, for no other reason than I knew Texas could play defense and I trusted them to get a few more stops than USC could, which mostly played out.  When VY said "USC hasn't seen anything like us" I thought he was just telling the truth rather than being brash.  He was right on.

Anyway, it's all washed away in history now, for sure.  Even Matt Leinart said on Big Noon Kickoff that 2019 LSU was the best offense he's ever seen

No, I thought the 2003 OU team was the greatest of all time?  

The major reason why USC got a lot of press is because they had won like two championships in a row, so they were working on a kind of dynasty that we hadn't seen in awhile.  I very well remember that Texas received a lot of hype, but it was being billed as one of the greatest games of all time and it actually lived up to the hype.  

I think 1995 Nebraska would be hard to beat by teams of that era.

No, I thought the 2003 OU team was the greatest of all time? 

2003 OU was the Greatest Team Of All Time, but only until they ran into Darren Sproles and the KSU Wildcats in the B12CG.  After that the narrative switched to "WHY ISN'T USC PLAYING LSU?!?!!" and "There can be no real champion here if USC isn't in the game."  

That was the start of the For-Real USC Hype Train and was part of the cause of the 2005 USC hype.  Everybody saw--and even talked about--how USC's defense wasn't as good as it had been, and maybe even downright mediocre.  But the USC Hype had 3 seasons of momentum at that point and they just couldn't help themselves.