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CBS Sportsline declares the Big Ten is back!

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What? The same cbs.sportsline that declared that the Big East had the toughest schedules in the country? The same cbs.sportsline (and Dennis Dodd for that matter) that suggested the 'Shoe wasn't one of the top 25 stadiums in the country?

[dripping sarcasm]What a shock. :roll1: [/dripping sarcasm]
 
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BB73 said:
Unfortunately for the Big Ten, that's all the league has taken in the BCS title game. Seven years, one BCS championship berth for the Large Eleven. That's tied with the Pac-10 for fewest championship berths (out of 14) in the BCS era. And essentially USC broke the tie in favor of the Left Coast by winning two consecutive titles, one of them by beating Michigan in the 2004 Rose Bowl.
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The thing that irks me the most about these asshats.. We put a damn system in place, no matter how perfect, to cut all this 'co' national championship crap out. The system is in place, USC did not win the BCS Nat'l Championship by beating Mich, they only won it last year by beating Choklahoma. Now lets get on the same page people. Before the BCS, all the writers were clamoring for a system to decide a National Champion. We have that system. The system said that LSU was National Champion in 2003. Not USC. So stop this back-to-back title stuff. (and no hate on USC, it's the principle of the matter. I have respect for their team and the games they've won, and hope to meet them in the Rose bowl if both teams are fortunate enough to make the trip. What an old-time matchup that'll be. )
 
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Dryden said:
So ... The Big-10 has a .500 or better record against every other conference except for the Pac-10 and the MAC, two conferences in which the margin is one whole game, and which can be chalked up to the outcomes of three bowls: USC vs Iowa, USC vs Michigan (USC was the better team) and Northwestern's loss to BGSU (the #5 team in the Big-10 plays the MAC #2).
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... which is a good reminder that while we've more often than not had two teams in BCS bowls in a given year, that shifts all the other matchups in favor of our opponents--rather than B10#2 and SEC#2 in the Citrus, it would be SEC #2 and B10#3, and so on.

Edit: Is that the usual citrus/CapOne matchup? I'm having a brain fart.
 
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A couple of years ago the Big-10 had the best winning percentage of all the conferences in the Bowl games.

Dodd ignored that and we should ignore him.
 
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He lost me at the "by Dennis Dodd" part.

I dont visit to Al-Jeezera to listen to them insult the USA and I don't read/listen to Dodd or any ESPN employee to get their take on OSU. Its about the same level of bias by the same level of human beings in my book.

BTW the B10 is still the only team to have a perfect record in a BCS era bowl season (5-0 in 1998), and has had the best overall bowl record 3 times out of the 7 years the BCS has been in existance(98,99,02).
 
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Sports journalism quality has totally gone down the shitter! So called journalist routinely push teams that have contracts and contacts! When The New York Times was exposed we new the Apocalypse was upon us! The Sporting News and College Football News are the best of the bunch! Sports "journalist" don't even have to held to the same standards as your average nightly news guy.
 
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ugh..Dennis Dodd, he happens to be the same tool that wrote this a day before the Fiesta Bowl vs. Miami for the National title:

"I can't bring myself to pick Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. To win? No,no,no, not even close. I called my priest this week to confess I was considering the Yuckeyes would come withing two touchdowns of Miami. But this is Miami, their equipment managers can outrun your defensive backs. Its quarterback never needs drycleaning, What's the point when his uniform never gets dirty? Right now, Larry Coker is agonizing over a superior gameplan that reads,"Punt on fourth down, sometimes." Sorry Bucks, it stops here. This will be a Fiesta Bowl awakening that will put you back in your proper place- back in the Big 10 struggling to beat Northwestern."

That was his quote, and yes he did call us "Yuckeyes." Ever since I read that, I immediately lost any interest in what this guy has to say, and it doesnt surprise me at all that he would bring up the flag that was thrown in OT. Screw this guy and anything he writes.
 
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FadeproofBuck said:
"I can't bring myself to pick Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl. To win? No,no,no, not even close. I called my priest this week to confess I was considering the Yuckeyes would come withing two touchdowns of Miami. But this is Miami, their equipment managers can outrun your defensive backs. Its quarterback never needs drycleaning, What's the point when his uniform never gets dirty? Right now, Larry Coker is agonizing over a superior gameplan that reads,"Punt on fourth down, sometimes." Sorry Bucks, it stops here. This will be a Fiesta Bowl awakening that will put you back in your proper place- back in the Big 10 struggling to beat Northwestern."
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You don't find humor in that paragraph?
 
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FadeproofBuck said:
Now I do, I love that paragraph now, but back before the Fiesta Bowl I really wasn't laughing about it.
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Yeah - Good point. Before the Fiesta Bowl, I was a little annoyed with how the Bucks had no chance. Hell, even here in Cleveland (which supposedly LOVES the Buckeyes), I got the feeling that people just wanted the Bucks "to not look TOO bad."

But I love it when these so-called "experts" look completely stupid for their predictions of a huge Buckeye loss.
 
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Zurp said:
Yeah - Good point. Before the Fiesta Bowl, I was a little annoyed with how the Bucks had no chance. Hell, even here in Cleveland (which supposedly LOVES the Buckeyes), I got the feeling that people just wanted the Bucks "to not look TOO bad."

But I love it when these so-called "experts" look completely stupid for their predictions of a huge Buckeye loss.
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I think the funniest thing was, after all his OSU bashing and kissing Miami's ass about their speed, on the gameday he predicts a 26-13 Miami win.

All this talk about how great Miami is, how OSU didn't stand a chance, and how there was no way we'd come within 2 TD's of them, he picks Miami to win by 13.
 
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FadeproofBuck said:
All this talk about how great Miami is, how OSU didn't stand a chance, and how there was no way we'd come within 2 TD's of them, he picks Miami to win by 13.
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He wasn't counting the extra points. :wink2:
 
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I dont have the stats to back this up, but I do remember clearly thinking to myself in 99-01, ' damn the big ten is way overrated'. These were years where all you heard about was big ten teams beating up on each other and yada yada yada. Then in '02( when the big ten really was very good) it started loosing respect. For some reason it seams to me that the media is about 2 to 3 years behind the curve. in 00 and 01 i truely believe that the big 12 was the best confrence in the nation. Then in 03 and for part of 04 they got that kind of respect(even though in my oppinion it was undeserved at that moment. It should have gone to the sec) The big ten has once again become dominant from top to bottom and deserving of the monacre of best confrence in the land. As I said I dont have the stats to back this up, Im sure i could find something if I really wanted to dig, hell how about this.... Perception is reality.
 
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Take away Ohio State's 2002 championship, and the Buckeyes and Wolverines have averaged an astonishing 3½ losses since the 1999 season started.
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Take away 10 losses in Coop's last 2 years, and 5 losses in JT's first year, and the Buckeyes have averaged 2 losses a year under Jim Tressel, the last 3 years. Meanwhile, scUM has averaged 3.5 losses a year under Lloyd Carr since 1999.

Somehow, that seems a tad more relevant to me. We ain't scUM.

crzykillernut said:
The thing that irks me the most about these asshats.. We put a damn system in place, no matter how perfect, to cut all this 'co' national championship crap out. The system is in place, USC did not win the BCS Nat'l Championship by beating Mich, they only won it last year by beating Choklahoma. Now lets get on the same page people. Before the BCS, all the writers were clamoring for a system to decide a National Champion. We have that system. The system said that LSU was National Champion in 2003. Not USC. So stop this back-to-back title stuff.
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Thank you. I'm not alone!

Funny how we all have to live with the POS/BCS system until the all-knowing sportswriters are offended by the result, so they rewrite history.

USC has been rolling the last 3 years but Ohio State won the title in 2002, LSU won it in 2003 and the Trojans won it in 2004. Period.
 
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