[Non-Sequitur]

I guess that Texas-USC championship game never happened, hee hee.

USC played Oklahoma for the championship that year.

[C19fan]

I was referring to the next year where USC lost to Vince Young and the ‘Horns.

[Paleo Conservative]

USC played Oklahoma for the championship that year.

But USC's #1 ranking for the entire 2005 season was due to its national championship win the previous season against Oklahoma.

[mike70]

Yeah, 2004 was the year Mack Brown abased himself to get to the Rose Bowl instead of Cal. So now Cal is the 2004 Pac-10 champion and still hasn’t played in a Rose Bowl since 1960.