Bottom line......AU goes undefeated as the SEC Champion...USC was happy to get OU....and I don't know that USC got any "better" from 03...they were AP champions in 03.

2004 USC Football

at Va Tech
Colorado State
at BYU
at Stanford
#7 Cal
#19 Arizona State
Washington
at Washington State
at Oregon State
Arizona
Notre Dame
at UCLA
#3 Oklahoma

2004 Auburn Tigers

Louisiana Monroe
at Mississippi State
#4 LSU
Citadel
at #8 Tennessee
Louisiana Tech
Arkansas
Kentucky
at Mississippi
#5 Georgia
at Alabama
#15 Tennessee
#10 VA Tech

It's true that AU had some patsies..but so did USC...AU beat 5 ranked teams...4 in regular season...USC just played 2 in regular season...And USC hasn't played 4 games to end the season like AU did that year since the stone age...