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Bleacher Report: USC Trojans Earned the 2004 Football National Title, Vacate 2005 Heisman Trophy

The college football season starts tomorrow and that is when the fun begins.  USC and its fans certainly welcome this after a preseason full of distractions. Several media reports yesterday addressed the 2004 National Championship convincingly won by USC and 2005 Heisman Trophy awarded to Reggie Bush. Let’s hope these articles wane during the football season because who cares about five years ago. But, they deserve a response in the interim. John Taylor of NBC Sports wrote an article, “Bob Stoops says USC should have ’04 title vacated.” He noted that former Auburn and current Texas Tech head coach Tommy ...

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Since 2002, we've correctly projected the winner of every single Heisman Trophy contest. Starting in 2010, we're running a season-long Heisman Trophy poll, providing ongoing commentary, and aggregating the best news about the top Heisman candidates around the country.

When it comes to our projections, well, we really can't say it any better than ESPN's Neil Everett - just a few days before the 2009 winner was announced: