By The Associated Press

Southern California and Texas gave the Bowl Championship Series a Rose Bowl nobody can complain about.

After Vince Young and the Longhorns handed coach Mack Brown his first conference championship Saturday with a 70-3 victory over Colorado in the Big 12 title game, Reggie Bush and USC made their own emphatic statement, beating UCLA 66-19.

The final BCS standings are released on Sunday and the top two teams play in the Rose Bowl for the national title. The Longhorns and Trojans can rest easy knowing they’ll receive bids to BCS title game on Jan. 4 in Pasadena, Calif.

“It’s nice to see 1 vs. 2 all year long playing for the national championship,” USC quarterback Matt Leinart said. “Two undefeated teams. No controversy this year.”

USC’s first two titles have come with some headaches for the BCS. Two years ago the Trojans shared the national title with LSU after being left out of the BCS title game. Last season, the Trojans played Oklahoma in the BCS championship and won the title outright, but unbeaten Auburn claimed it should have been USC’s opponent in the Orange Bowl.

This year, USC and Texas have been first and second in the BCS standings all season and headed into the final day of the regular season as the only unbeaten teams left in major college football.

The Trojans and Longhorns are the two highest scoring teams in the nation.

“USC has probably the second-best offense, compared to our offense, in the nation,” safety Michael Huff said. “It will be a great matchup for us. We just have to line up and play Texas defense, and we’ll be fine.”

USC tailback LenDale White wasn’t as well versed on the Longhorns.

“I don’t know nothing about Texas,” he said.

Young threw three touchdown passes and ran for another for the second-ranked Longhorns, making his case for the Heisman Trophy.

Bush’s rebuttal was 260 yards rushing and two scores on 24 carries, helping put the Trojans in position to win a third straight national title.

Bush said USC wasn’t paying attention to Texas.

“I heard that they were winning 70-to-whatever,” Bush said. “That had no effect on what we were trying to do.”

Penn State was third in the latest BCS standings. The Nittany Lions ended their regular season two weeks ago by clinching the Big Ten’s BCS bid and had hoped a slip up by USC or Texas could send them to the Rose Bowl.

If they were watching on Saturday, Joe Paterno’s crew didn’t get much chance to dream. Both the Trojans and Longhorns were in cruise control by halftime.

By the time USC had polished off the Bruins, only two more automatic bids to the BCS remained to be doled out.

Georgia grabbed one when the Bulldogs beat LSU 34-14 in the Southeastern Conference title game. The Dawgs will return to the Georgia Dome in about a month to play in the Sugar Bowl, which was forced out of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina.

Virginia Tech, another 10-1 team that had a long-shot chance at reaching the Rose Bowl, played Florida State in the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game. The winner of the first ACC title game was guaranteed a spot in the Orange Bowl.

West Virginia will represent the Big East in the BCS not matter what the Mountaineers do against South Florida on Saturday night.

The Fiesta, Orange and Sugar bowl pairings will be announced Sunday along with the two teams to receive at-large bids.

Notre Dame is expected to get one of those at-large bids with Ohio State the front-runner for the other, and Oregon a possibility.

AP-ES-12-03-05 2218EST

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