PAC12 Championship was an opportunity for USC to jump in seeding and avoid Georgia

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While this is true - it is not very revelatory or particularly interesting. 

Avoid Georgia get Michigan, two sides of the same coin.

The best they would’ve done is jumped to #3 to face Michigan, with TCU #4. 
 

Edit: Misread. You assumed everyone else would lose, which was a long shot. 

the pac12 championship was also an opportunity for them to make the playoff. But they lost, so they did not.

The game gave them the opportunity to be pac 12 champs. If that wasn’t motivation enough then they shouldn’t play football. 

no chance in hell they were going to be 1, even if Georgia lost.  Move up to 2?  Maybe.
Still more downside than upside for USC to play that game (not like they were given a choice)

Great post

They still managed to avoid Georgia by losing.

Look at the end of the day the Pac12 is the 4th best league and got themselves to third base but nobody really stood out so they had to call in a pinch runner.

Ohio State is pinch running for the Pac12 in the playoff.

It doesn't really matter, Georgia or Michigan, you still have to know how to tackle.

Who cares?

They dropped 6 spots by losing. That seems somewhat harsh, even considering they got blown out. That says to me that the Committee didn’t think that much of them to begin with and only had them at 4 to keep a non-division winning OSU out. When SC crapped the bed, that allowed the committee to rank SC properly.

One time when I was a teenager I poured gasoline into a styrofoam cup. I didn't die, but what if I had???

I could see the extra motivation were the Pac-12 title game the last of the P5 title games. But since it's the first, you can't be thinking about hypothetical seeding scenarios. You just have to win -- hopefully big -- and then see what shakes out on Saturday.

I didn't see the game myself, but the box score and the anecdotes I've heard paint a picture of a team thinking they were hot shit and were rudely told they were not. 

SC can’t tackle.

I actually agree with the OP. Interesting theoretical. They likely would have jumped TCU if they won, as it is a more recent win in a championship game and they would have won their conference.

Was thinking before their game that I didn't want to face them and Caleb Williams, would rather face TCU. After seeing the Pac 12 game and how they tackled, we would have run right through their defense. At least TCU can tackle.

How stoned are you? Unless Georgia and Michigan got pummeled and lost half their players, USC was never going to be number one. 

I personally think championship games are to advance and not to lose the place you already have. That is bullshit. For example, if TCU had a loss and was 5 or 6, then they win the championship. If the fourth place team, let us say OSU, had a loss to UM but was not in championship game, them you compare TCU vs OSU after the championship game.

Unfortunately, that is not how things work. Committee just figures out who they think is a better team. They use some metrics but it is subjective. USC screwed themselves by playing in championship game. 

That is my opinion and I am sure many won't share that. 

Edit: I will also add that there are star gazers in the committee as well. If UM had a similar season as OSU, there will not be any push to put UM up there. OSU and SEC get special treatment. UM just has to win every time. That sucks but leaders overcome all odds. Fuck OSU.

It would have been good for USC because we would have stomped them all the way back to 2004 when there were last relevant