Posted by ESPN.com's Ted Miller
Shock level here... about 0.0027. And that's based on someone voting California No. 1 -- probably just for kicks.
- USC (38 first-place votes)...389
- Arizona State...330
- Oregon...295
- California (1)...274
- UCLA... 204
- Oregon State...192
- Arizona...185
- Washington... 139
- Stanford...76
- Washington State...61
This is the sixth consecutive year USC has topped the poll. The previous five times the Trojans made reporters look like geniuses.
Overall, the media poll has picked the correct champ in 25 of the previous 47 polls, including the last eight years in a row. (We've gotten a lot smarter since Pete Carroll arrived).
USC is the first program to top the poll six consecutive times -- at least since the Trojans had an 18-year run atop the poll from 1965-'82.
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Ted Miller has been covering college football since 1997, starting with Auburn and then heading West to Washington and the Pac-10. His columns for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer won first place in 2007 APSE Best Writing contest. The Atlanta native and University of Richmond graduate presently lives with his wife in Scottsdale, Ariz.
