There aren’t many college coach-college player relationships in NCAA football history as historically significant as Pete Carroll and Reggie Bush. Carroll took over a downtrodden USC program in 2001 — a school that hadn’t won 11 games since 1979 — and led them to an 11-2 record by 2002. Without Carroll and a number four finish in the AP poll that year, does Bush, the number one running back recruit in the country per Rivals, choose to become a Trojan?
Together, they went 37-2 from 2003-2005, with two AP national championships. Bush won the Heisman in 2005, easily beating out Vince Young of Texas and teammate Matt Leinart.