To any college football fan who has been awake for the past seven years, saying that USC has been the best team in the Pac-10 is about as big an understatement as suggesting that the BCS system is imperfect.

Indeed, since 2002, even with all the talk of growing parity across the college football landscape and the wacky regular season finishes, Trojan dominance of the Pac-10 (ending in a trip to the Rose Bowl or some BCS bowl) has been a remarkable constant.

However, the turbulent 2007 season—which pretty much shattered the notion of certainty about anything in college football—nearly saw the overthrow the Pac-10's kings.

At various points in the season, four different teams seemed poised to oust the Troja...

Read Complete Article at Bleacher Report - College Football
Article is property of BleacherReport.com