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The good, the bad and the ugly

By Ted Miller
Special to ESPN.com

Tuesday, December 7, 2004

The Bowl Championship Series giveth and it taketh away, at least as far as the Pac-10 is concerned. A year after USC lost out of a berth in that national title game, despite being perched at No. 1 in both polls, the Trojans held onto their top ranking the entire season and earned a spot opposite No. 2 Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl. So the system worked for the nation's toughest conference (according to the Sagarin Ratings). Well, not completely. California, despite a No. 4 ranking in bot ...

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