USC’s title all but gone

LOS ANGELES – Where were you this summer when USC football was stripped of its 2004 BCS title?

Actually, it wasn’t announced by the BCS, reported in newspapers or touted on ESPN’s crawl.

It slipped through the cracks on June 25.

That was the day USC announced it was appealing parts of major sanctions levied by the NCAA earlier in the month.

USC effectively forfeited the BCS title when it accepted that Bush was ineligible when he participated in USC’s 55-19 title-game win over Oklahoma.

USA Today reported Wednesday that USC football’s 2004 BCS title would be vacated “if” USC loses its appeal with the NCAA for major sanctions.

BCS executive director Bill Hancock said at Big 12 media day Tuesday that USC’s title, if vacated, would not be awarded to another team – Oklahoma, Auburn or Utah.