USC definitely showed up against OU in the last game but they were far from great during the season. I remember many close calls with mediocre teams because I was rooting against USC in all of them. However, OU, SC, Auburn, and Utah all ended up undefeated and it's hard to say who should be the champion now especially since non of the players are around anymore. None of them earned it that year on the field, so it's best just to move on and learn from past mistakes so they don't happen again...but they will. It's just too bad that that the USC players who experienced winning the title that year had that all taken away because of one player.
That's the year when Auburn scheduled and played Louisiana-Monroe, Louisiana Tech and The Citadel. That's what killed Auburn's strength of schedule in Jeff Sagarin's tabulations, bringing it down to 60th strongest strength of schedule vs. 6th for USC. According to Jeff Sagarin, Auburn's strength of schedule wasn't that much stronger than Utah's, which was ranked 67th.
I dont know who would have won the game between AU and USC but it would have been much better than OU thats for sure.
Upper management doesn't need to worry about trivialities like that; that's what Word spell check and executive assistants are for.
Executive assistants may depend on spell check but successful upper management tends toward mastering all aspects of their environment. If folk can't get the little things right I don't hire them to make complex and financially significant decisions. And those positions aren't "upper management".
