Texas 2005 is too high. How can you place a team 2nd when it trailed by 12 points in the middle of the 4th quarter against a terrible defense? Vince Young lobbed a terrible pass that Ryan Ting could have intercepted and all but ended the game. If Ting picks off that pass, USC and Leinart easily could score to make it a 19 point margin. Instead, Ting batted down the ball, for reasons known only to himself.
USC 2005 had an awful defense, shredded by graduation and injury, not remotely close to the USC stop units of 2003 or 2004.
USC 2004 should be second, behind the 2001 Canes. I saw on a USC board today that an ESPN version has USC 2004 on top.
Miami 2001 may have played a couple of lazy second halves on the road but with all that manpower they would have been hellish to actually defeat, and that includes 1995 Nebraska. I would bet Miami against that Nebraska team without a second thought. People tend to forget that Nebraska was only a 3.5 point favorite prior to that game against Florida. Their legend exploded based on one result. That's cute, but as always, everything tends to drift back to the beginning.
