USC lost to Oregon Freaking State. You don't get to play in the national Championship when you lose to Orgeon Freaking State. Period.
Texas Lost to #1 Ohio State. If they win out & Rutgers loses, they deserve to go. hopefully it willl be ND, but the voters hate ND too much to let that happen.
Gotta disagree with you about the Beavers. They
used to be a perennial 1-10 embarassment. Over the past decade, they've become a solid mid-level Pac-10 program. They're going to a bowl game again this year(they have 6 wins with Stanford yet to play), maybe even a good one. Their national rankings: #34 in total O, #39 in total D (ND, for comparison, ranks #24 and #53).
Oregon State has been sending guys to the NFL: Chad Johnson, TJ Houshwhatshisname, Steven Jackson, Nick Barnett, all Beavers.
U$C losing to the Beave is like Florida losing to Alabama or Michigan losing to Iowa. It's an upset, for sure, but it in no way DQs the Condoms from the NC game. If they beat Oregon, Cal, ND, and UCLA in a row, they're in. Even if Rutgers wins out.