USC (Southern Cal) in the Pete Carroll Era has become the nation's premier college football program

Sorry about earlier, Springfield, Mo experienced some bad weather and my power went out!! Now, in order to make a statement such as "USC (Southern Cal) in the Pete Carroll Era has become the nation's premier college football program" a few statements must be true. It must be true that: A) They are, presently, ranked number 1 (Meaning under his control, they've risen to number 1) and B) They are the best team of all time (Meaning Pete Carroll has carried them to new heights unestablished by anyone else aka He's created the best program of all time) ________________________________________________________________________________________________ A)They are, presently, ranked number 1 (Meaning under his control, they've risen to number 1) ~The only poll that would have USC ranked number 1, is the poll on their own school's site. According to the BCS standings (the most prestigious standings in all of college football) USC is number 3 and Florida is ranked as a decisive number 1. Not only are they number 1, but Florida recieved 48 of the 65 votes that are suppose to be distributed between 25 teams!! Ask yourselves, would a team that is suppose to be the nation's premier college football program, only recieve 1 out of 65 votes, while another school recieves 48? Of course not, this said you see that they are not premier "first in rank; chief; leading." This disproves the resolution in the first aspect. _________________________________________________________________________________________________ B) They are the best team of all time (Meaning Pete Carroll has carried them to new heights unestablished by anyone else aka He's created the best program of all time) In evaluating this, you must take a few things into consideration. These things are win percentage, national titles, and pro factory. "Given that stipulation, I'll have to go with the program that actually IS the best all-time. #1 in wins. #1 in overall winning %. #1 in conference titles. 11 total national titles. If you had limited this to the modern era, you may have had a shot, but all-time the choice has to be the University of Michigan. Michigan is the all-time leader in wins (872) and winning % (.740). Despite their recent troubles, the program has no equal in that regard. They also have the most winning seasons and the most undefeated seasons in Division 1-A history." http://www.fannation.com... "So, not to leaving you hanging, here is the definitive list. Going back 140 years (through 2008), and using the NCAA as the source, here are the top 10 schools and the percentage of winning games: 1. Michigan 74.0% 2. Notre Dame 73.6% 3. Texas 72.0% 4. Oklahoma 71.4% 5. Ohio State 71.4% 6. Alabama 70.9% 7. Southern Cal 70.6% 8. Nebraska 70.3% 9. Tennessee 69.2% 10. Penn State 68.9%" http://lifetussle.wordpress.com... This is proof they don't have the best win %. Now lets move onto most national championships. According to: http://en.wikipedia.org... USC currently ranks 7th behind Princeton, Yale, Michigan, Notre Dame, Oklahoma, and Alabama. This proves, yet another thing to be false, that USC doesn't have the most National Championships. This said, lets move on to pro factory (the most amount of NFL players to come out of a school). There are 2 lists under this search: 1) CBS Sportsline Alumni Tracker http://www.sportsline.com... Miami - 55 Georgia - 54 LSU - 50 Michigan - 50 Ohio State - 47 Florida - 43 USC - 42 FSU - 42 and 2)http://sports.espn.go.com... Miami - 45 Georgia- 40 LSU- 40 FSU- 39 Michigan- 39 Ohio St-37 Tenn- 37 Texas - 35 USC - 33 Notre Dame - 32 Auburn, Cal, Florida, VT - 31 Both of these polls have a couple things in common, they both have Miami listed as the number 1 school, and USC listed around the bottom. ============================================================================ In conclusion, USC hasn't risen to be the "premier" college football team under Pete Carrolls controll because A) They aren't "premier" (number 1) right now! ~ University of Florida is #1 under this criteria (ranked number 1 by all polls) and B) They aren't "premire" all-time (They haven't risen to the premier national college football of all time team under his control)! ~Michigan is #1 under this criteria (Best all-time win percentage/most amount of wins/Ranking 3rd on most amount of national titles/Ranking 3rd on most players in the NFL... they have the best average of all four categories.)