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On 10th anniversary, was Texas-USC the best BCS title game ever?
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On 10th anniversary, was Texas-USC the best BCS title game ever?

Published Jan. 4, 2016 1:41 p.m. ET

No Texas Longhorns fan will ever forget quarterback Vince Young's 8-yard touchdown run with 19 seconds left against the No. 1 USC Trojans to win the 2005 national championship.

That great play capped a great game for Young -- 467 yards of total offense and three touchdowns -- in what is arguably the greatest college football game of all-time.

It's certainly not impossible to call the 41-38 victory the greatest ever, so it's definitely not a stretch to think of it as the best college football championship game ever. Just a year ago, Mike Huguenin of NFL.com named it the "most memorable" of college football's "title games" in history.

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When dealing with only the BCS era, Texas-USC has some intriguing company when discussing the greatest BCS-era title game. Prior to the 2015 season, Kevin Lyttle of the Austin American-Statesman ranked the top four all-time BCS championship games with the Longhorns and Trojans coming in at No. 1.

Which game gets your vote?

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