Start celebrating USC-Bama history, hype
By Ted Miller
Published July 16, 2014, 02:00:15 PM
You want controversy? You want regional bias? You BCS-raised college football youngins' don't know squat. Consider exhibit A: USC and Alabama in 1978.
USC went to Legion Field in Birmingham, Alabama, on Sept. 23, 1978 and whipped the top-ranked Crimson Tide 24-14 in front of 77,313 fans who didn't appreciate West Coast cool rolling over their southern-fried team like an army of deranged surfers.
The technical term for that in college football parlance is a "head-to-head victory.
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