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USC breaks the BCS mirror with Rose Bowl win.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Bob Ford
PASADENA, Calif. _ It was a good day for football on Thursday in the great, gaping saucer of the Rose Bowl, but it turned out to be a bad day for all the slide-rule jockeys who dreamed up the impenetrable mess that is the Bowl Championship Series.
The BCS was supposed to forever prevent an untidy end to the college football season. The bowl-and-poll system had produced 10 split championships before the calculus boys took over and promised a true title game every year.
Well, forever didn't last six seasons, which is lousy efficiency even by the standards of most college administrators.
Southern California threw a rock into the punch bowl on Thursday by handily beating Michigan, 28-14, and transforming Sunday's Sugar Bowl, the supposed "national championship game," into just ...
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