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BCS Title Game: Auburn -3.5 vs Oregon (ov/un 74.5) Jan 10, 2011

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http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/20...een-lantern-for-a-little-bcs-title-game-hype/

sorry if already posted but wtf

and who is cleaning all this up??

http://www.bustedcoverage.com/?p=37860

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jwinslow;1855275; said:
The point is that mentality isn't just foolish, but it strips the participants of their accomplishments

If losing to a winner equals winning yourself, then Oregon has a title to celebrate.

Michigan can also save themselves money and hire Ron English, since they'll be preserving their success they've enjoyed during the Tressel era.
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If the Big 10 won 5 straight BCS titles, you don't think we'd be doing at least A LITTLE crowing about it? Honestly?

As I watch folks on this board cheering for B10 teams to win bowl games, I find it hard to believe that there might not be at least SOME bragging being done. I'll grant you that it won't be up the the SEC chant levels, but I definitely expect there'd be some bragging going on.

I'll be the first to say that I loathe SEC chant, and the south takes conference pride to a completely different level, but that doesn't change the fact that B10 fans also start bragging when their conference does well.
 
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For my own curiosity, checking something that Brent Musberger mentioned in the second half of the broadcast, the disparity isn't that big between the SEC and the Big Ten (even though Musberger probably didn't have the depth charts in front of him).

Musberger was mentioning SEC defensive line starters on NFL teams. Only two more teams have SEC linemen versus having Big Ten defensive linemen.

Teams:
9 Both (Big Ten and SEC D-Linemen)
9 SEC (no Big Ten)
7 Big Ten (no SEC)
7 Neither (no Big Ten or SEC)
 
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Gatorubet;1855105; said:
Taunting aside, these two posts define the divide here. Being proud of the conference's BCS efforts - even though one's own team did not perform up to par - will always be looked at with mixed results. But I can tell you that every team feels as thought they - I dunno - molded or formed - or at least played a part in the evolution of the team that became the conference standard bearer in a title game- or any bowl game for that matter. They think that their team losing a tough game, even though a loss, had in hand in helping the other team in their path to the championship.

It might be stupid, maybe arrogant, possibly untrue, but that is the perspective. But I thought I'd throw that out there because it seems unfathomable to many why a fan of the poodles might be happy with a Tiger win last night and beat the respective conference chest.
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Fuck that shit.

If my Buckeyes are going to lose a game, I don't want it helping the other team. I want the other team to have to work so hard to earn it that they have nothing left to give the next week and get their dicks sanded by a lousy team.
 
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matcar;1855467; said:
If the Big 10 won 5 straight BCS titles, you don't think we'd be doing at least A LITTLE crowing about it? Honestly?

As I watch folks on this board cheering for B10 teams to win bowl games, I find it hard to believe that there might not be at least SOME bragging being done. I'll grant you that it won't be up the the SEC chant levels, but I definitely expect there'd be some bragging going on.

I'll be the first to say that I loathe SEC chant, and the south takes conference pride to a completely different level, but that doesn't change the fact that B10 fans also start bragging when their conference does well.
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sure, but we would also ridicule foolish psu, um and nw fans who tried to join in the sugar bowl Or nc celebration as if their teams did something.
 
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jwinslow;1855706; said:
sure, but we would also ridicule foolish psu, um and nw fans who tried to join in the sugar bowl Or nc celebration as if their teams did something.
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You just changed the question/subject from five straight BCSCs to something else. The subject was not the Sugar Bowl or a single NC celebration.
 
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matcar;1855467; said:
If the Big 10 won 5 straight BCS titles, you don't think we'd be doing at least A LITTLE crowing about it? Honestly?

As I watch folks on this board cheering for B10 teams to win bowl games, I find it hard to believe that there might not be at least SOME bragging being done. I'll grant you that it won't be up the the SEC chant levels, but I definitely expect there'd be some bragging going on.

I'll be the first to say that I loathe SEC chant, and the south takes conference pride to a completely different level, but that doesn't change the fact that B10 fans also start bragging when their conference does well.
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Just an observation based on absolutely no academic proof, the South has a regional pride that is totally absent from the Mid-West. They are still angry about the War of Northern Aggression while we wonder if it actually took place.

While not as pronounced as the pride of the South, the West and East also support each other.

San Franciscans loath Los Angolans, but put a California team- professional or collegiate- up against a team from the East/South, or especially the Mid West, and they're all for California. Horns and Aggies spend their lives putting each other down, but let either school face up against Yankees and all the hate get's redirected.

I can't imagine a Yankee fan rooting for the NL champ in a World Series against Boston -- unless it was possibly the Mets. But put the Reds or Indians up against an out of state team and half of this state will be rooting against the other. (A fact I discovered as a freshman at OSU in 61 with all the students from Toledo and Cleveland rooting for the fucking Yankees as opposed to my Reds.)

The Mid West gets the sticky end of the lollipop in culture too. "We're not in Kansas any more," "Why, oh Why, oh Why oh, why did I ever leave Ohio?" (from Wonderful Town) says one thing and means another, "Mid West values" is a catch phrase for outdated social beliefs, Nellie Forbish, the central character in South Pacific, is a hopelessly naive Mid Westerner. River City, Iowa gets snookered by The Musicman, an Easterner.

The South may be more agrarian, may have lower literacy rates, the West may be more rapacious in terms of natural resources, the East may be overcrowded and over priced, but all of them have the Mid West to piss on.
 
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