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Blah. ESPN's Ted Miller who covers the Pac-10, includes us in his list of the BCS' Top 10 Slights in its ten year history.
Who could forget the infamous 2004 BCS Snub? Although most Cal fans would want to.
"5. Texas politickin': Brown lobbies for poll promotion over California
We're a country divided into red states and blue states, so why shouldn't that carry over to college football? In 2004, Texas coach Mack Brown kissed babies, shook hands and openly pleaded for pollsters to promote his Longhorns (AP No. 6, ESPN/USA Today No. 5) past California (AP No. 4, ESPN/USA Today No. 4). When the Bears won "only" 26-16 in their season-finale at Southern Miss, Brown got enough superdelegate switches to swipe Cal's Rose Bowl berth. The postscript? Texas quarterback Vince Young then posted the first of two BCS bowl performances for the ages, in a dramatic Rose Bowl win over Michigan, and the despondent, injury-riddled Bears laid an egg in an embarrassing Holiday Bowl loss to Texas Tech."
Miller's recap only tells part of the story. He must have a bit rushed to mention that Cal had posted a 10-1 regular season record with its only loss being a 23-17 nail biting loss to the the eventual National Champions USC, AT the Coliseum. Texas on the other hand, had been blown out at home by the Oklahoma Sooners, who would subsequently get crushed by the Trojans in the National Championship game.
But as Miller mentioned, Brown worked his mojo, and the Bears watched their best chance at making the Rose Bowl in over 50 years swirl down the proverbial BCS crapper.
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I'm still not over that snub. No matter what happened against Texas Tech or what would have happened in the Rose Bowl, Cal deserved it. And while that may have been the closest Cal has come when the regular reason completed, Cal should have made it by winning the conference outright in 2006; but, they squandered a 17-3 halftime lead against Arizona. (Albeit with the help of some poor officiating, The Hawk Tripping on the goal-line and Desean's big feet.)
I can't get over it either. Only losing to USC at the very end, then getting shunted to the Holiday Bowl.
I am a very polite person. But if I ever see Mack Brown in person, I swear to god I will have to be restrained. And while I once held fairly positive views of the University of Texas, as far as I'm concerned they're on the hate list with Notre Dame and USC until the day Mack Brown departs.
Man you guys almost opened a can of worms. Two topics that always get my blood pumping:
The 2006 Arizona Game, and Brown.
I'll have to save most of my venom for later posts but real quickly:
1) We quickly forget that even had we won AZ game, we wouldn't have won the conference outright unless USC lost to UCLA (which they did). But the Arizona game wouldn't have clinched it at that time for us. But we would have still made the Rose Bowl on the count that USC would have then made the NC game.
2) Mack Brown. Man, the media loves him, and there are times when I can see why he might be respected, but that guy...can't say it. Let's just say, when I saw him in studio to accept the Rose Bowl bid, right after Tedford's interview, talking about unfortunate it was that a team as great as ours wasn't going to Pasadena and how flawed the system was, I nearly punched a hole through my tv set.
I wish nothing but the worst in life for Mack Brown. Biggest no class scum bag in college football. He should have taken notes when Tedford chose to take a knee in the waning moments of that Southern Miss game instead of run up the score.
Texas' resume didn't even compare to Cal's that year.
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