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Except for Matt Millen
Not a bad prediction!Texas 38 USC 35
The two best teams in the land bar far. The two narrow victories by USC over Fresno St. and Notre Dame...........and the unimpressive win vs. Oregon, all teams who LOST in this bowl season makes me believe that Texas will win this game.
I'm taking the 7 points though!
I'd be lying if I said I wouldn't have done the EXACT same thing.
It was the right call. The defense (if there technically was a defense) couldn't stop Young. They could have started from the 1 inch line and Young would have put the 8 on the board.But I don't understand why Bush was on the sidelines. That really makes the consensus "best player in college football" look weak.
Not at all........he was entirely right. He knew his defensive couldn't stop Vince Young so he tried to take the game out of his hands. I totally think that was the right call.Unless it was some spectacular kick inside the 5 yard line, Young had enough time to score. And if you're going to hope for a spectacular play by punting, why not just get a spectacular run and never give him the ball.
Damn
I was :X with ESPN and their gushing for the Condoms. Not a Texas fan by any stretch but good to see someone else with the title.By the way the 1996 Huskers are still the best team of all time!!! 
The whole broadcast was a joke. Keith Jackson seriously needs to re-retire. He's completely lost, like a deep-voiced Sumerall. He is hands down the worst play by play caller in sprts today. Absolutely clueless.
USC fan, I mean dOuSKUe,What about the missed extra points and field goals that were basically chip shots by Texas in the game. What about the fumbles early on and the injury to their best defensive player with only 6 minutes in the game after they bell behind by 2 scores but yet came back to win.
When I think of great teams, especially in recent history that one always pops into my mind. I'm far from a Cornhusker fan.Damn
By the way the 1996 Huskers are still the best team of all time!!!
They didn't have that option, it's not available as far as I know. I'm sure if Pete Carroll were offered that he would have taken it. The ball just as easily could have bounced into the endzone giving Texas the ball at the 20, plenty of time for Young still to score.If you're needing a good play, why not just end the game. Tell me this, what was the best player in college football supposedly doing on the sideline with the National Chamipionsip on the line??? That to me is the biggest mystery.
Yet I still believe that the 1983 Husker team was the best of all time, even though they lost to Miami. (Still a balls move by Osbourne going for the win rather than the tie and the assured championship)Now to the game....quite possibly the best national championship game I have ever seen. What a treat.Damn
By the way the 1996 Huskers are still the best team of all time!!!
I'm with you there, although I'm not going to give Carroll a free pass. The play calling was terrible tonight. White was running through Texas, but they didn't stick with him and rarely gave him carries on back-to-back plays. That botched 2nd and 7 screen attempt to Hancock cost them the game. If they hand it to White on that play and on third down then they win the game. Nevertheless, a loss is a loss. USC had no answer for Young all night long.
While we're second-guessing, let me add along these lines that on the mistaken 4th-down call in the first quarter (where Carroll wanted the timeout but didn't get it), Texas were able to jam the middle and stuff the QB sneak. One might think that something a bit less obvious was in order...something outside...something to, maybe, Reggie Bush?
Really? C'mon. White has been the short yardage back his entire career. He was dominant tonight, a monster who scored 3TD's. Forget about that?. Bush should have been on the sideline. What's with all the hyperbole, folks? If you want to knock Bush, knock him. But enough of this "what's the best player in football doing on the sideline" crap..
Are you referring to the TD that Young had earlier in the game, the one where he was down. No doubt he was down.However, let's also think about this. Looking at this game, I think we can say there's a very realistic shot that Texas would have scored a TD anyway. It wasn't like the last play of the half and if they called him down, then they weren't getting any points of the drive. It would have been 1st and 10 from the 11 or 12 yard line. Maybe they wouldn't have scored a TD, but the odds were pretty good that they would score............and because they were rushing, trying to get the play in, they missed the XP.
