[Austroturf]

U$C is the Pac-12's last hope for a CFP spot.

Are you really hoping for this? I have bag full of F's that I am not giving about the success of $C!

I am NOT hoping for it.  As the quote says: U$C is the Pac-12's last hope for a CFP spot.  Frankly, if they lose to the Domers and get routed by (most probably) Oregon in the Pac-12 title game, I am just fine with that.  But the Pac-12 would, once again, NOT have a team in the CFP.  I am sure the Pac-12 commissioner is sincerely hoping USC makes it.  I am simply undertaking a dispassionate analysis of the different scenarios.

If I was the PAC 12 Commissioner I’d want SC to suck.  They are leaving. Perhaps destroying the PAC-12 in the process.  I sure as hell wouldn’t be rooting for them.

Maybe.  But the money is coming in this year; and the Pac-12 commissioner could use that money after they depart.  Fact 1: they are leaving.  The commissioner can do nothing about this now.  Fact 2: if USC makes the CFP, that bumps the rest of the Pac-12 up in the bowl hierarchy.  More money for the conference.  More money is good, and SC will leave anyway.  

If I were the Pac-12 commissioner, I would want SC to suck AFTER they leave.

[Austroturf]

U$C is the Pac-12's last hope for a CFP spot.

Are you really hoping for this? I have bag full of F's that I am not giving about the success of $C!

I am NOT hoping for it.  As the quote says: U$C is the Pac-12's last hope for a CFP spot.  Frankly, if they lose to the Domers and get routed by (most probably) Oregon in the Pac-12 title game, I am just fine with that.  But the Pac-12 would, once again, NOT have a team in the CFP.  I am sure the Pac-12 commissioner is sincerely hoping USC makes it.  I am simply undertaking a dispassionate analysis of the different scenarios.

If I was the PAC 12 Commissioner I’d want SC to suck.  They are leaving. Perhaps destroying the PAC-12 in the process.  I sure as hell wouldn’t be rooting for them.

Maybe.  But the money is coming in this year; and the Pac-12 commissioner could use that money after they depart.  Fact 1: they are leaving.  The commissioner can do nothing about this now.  Fact 2: if USC makes the CFP, that bumps the rest of the Pac-12 up in the bowl hierarchy.  More money for the conference.  More money is good, and SC will leave anyway.  

If I were the Pac-12 commissioner, I would want SC to suck AFTER they leave.