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I've never been to Oxford (yet), but I have gone to Starkville.
and I'm not even slightly exaggerating when I say it was like going back in time.
That place is legit still Mayberry (if Mayberry was a trailer park).
it is absolutely small town USA.
and the people there are ridiculously friendly...
i’m not opposed to change if that’s what you’re hinting at.
but you can also take changes too far and rather than “fix” problems, you just create new ones.
i think conferences going from 10 teams to 12 or 14 and creating the divisions and championship games was a GREAT change.
16 to 18...
the 13th amendment abolished Slavery in 1865.
the state of Mississippi didn’t ratify it until 1995, but didn’t turn in the paperwork until 2013.
so it’s not a joke to say it took nearly 150 years for Mississippi to “officially” acknowledge that Salvery was illegal.
because really outside of the SEC, everyone else plays their main rival the final week of the season.
so even the national media and broadcasters don’t treat mid-season games as “rivalries”.
but the fanbases sure as shit do.
seriously, Alabama and Auburn don’t even consider each other...
i was not in any way meaning to disparage the OSU/Michigan rivalry.
i actually looked up y’all history (records) vs other schools looking for a more comparable one, but didn’t see any that really matchup and have no clue what kind of hate levels y’all have for other schools so couldn’t really...
i already said we don’t actually have a rival
it ebbs and flows through time depending on how each series is going.
pre-WWII, Tulane actually gave a shit about football. So that one was pretty heated.
but when they went on a 4+ decade run of not emphasizing athletics in any way it fizzled...
again, what other people think of our rivalry doesn’t affect the intensity or hatred of it.
here is where the SEC differs from the rest of the country.
that final week game isn’t even the most “hated” opponent for most of them despite what the national media attempts to push.
the vast...
we don't really have that ONE biggest rival.
and honestly, I kind of like that about us and our schedule.
but Ole Miss would be the one that has been in that discussion the longest and most consistently.
Alabama obviously, but that one really got ramped up due to the Saban angle. But...
what?
I hope you don't think people outside of tOSU/Michigan fans pass down stories of The Game from generation to generation. because we don't.
you're also kidding yourself if you don't think other schools view their big rivalry series with the same enthusiasm and hate as y'all and Michigan...
play them over 100 times and you'll get it.
let me ask you this question.
does your hatred for Michigan, or their hatred of y'all depend on both being Nationally relevant?
• Ann Arbor is roughly 200 miles north of Columbus ; Oxford is roughly 300 miles north of Baton Rouge
• tOSU and Michigan...
pfffft, not a problem.
we don't waste our money on frivolous bullshit like Education, Health, Roads, Bridges, etc.
(on a serious note, none of this money comes out of state coffers)
how?
they aren't getting in because they don't deserve to get in.
putting him on TV to babble for a while to fill in time on the show means absolutely nothing.
other than the comic relief it provided me this morning.
you, me, and everyone else in the world knows that.
they didn't even have to win more than maybe one game (which will likely be at home)
that puts you turning the Calendar to January before he would be "available"
does LSU wait that long for an official ink on paper answer? probably not...