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Saban's Bama is basically Carroll's USC with a soft schedule by ndhouston
The sport is really stage-managed now, much more so than it was back then. USC typically played 6 home, 6 away, with no cupcake games that sunk to the level of absurdity that the SEC schedules before their "rivalry weekend".
Carroll had similar recruiting success, similar draft success, and during most of his tenure USC would have been favored over the rest of college football in a season-ending, neutral site game.
They were basically today's Alabama, but quite a bit more entertaining just because they played more challenging schedules, both in terms of competition as well as timing.