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methomps;1038117; said:Can't say I didn't see this thread coming.
methomps;1038130; said:I do not disagree. Great post.
ray6072;1038175; said:I agree the dude is assinine by saying that y'alls rivalry is irrelevant any more in college football. Do none of y'all see rivalry as a regional thing though? Can you agree that it is not relevant in the south except for the few transplanted northernors. I literally know no one that cares about it, and that is not a diss at all; it is just fact. I also could care less about the yankees-red sox rivalry. I am a cubs fan and care about the cubs-cards(I know, lord help me). North Louisiana is littered with Cubs fans for some reason. I am a LSU Tiger's fan and care about rivalries that pertain to my team, jsut as y'all are tOSU fans and care about rivalries that pertain to y'alls team. I honestly think this thread is a lot to do about nothing. The big things to each individual are the things they want to have meaning for them.
ray6072;1038218; said:I agree that the loser of the lsu-florida game has a chance for redemption in the championship game, but the loser between bama, auburn, arkansas, lsu in the west does not just as the loser between the georgia, tennessee and florida games in the east do not.
I am not saying the game does not often have national significance, but a good portion of the nation could care less about the game as a rivalry. It may be we have difference defintions of an important rivalry game, too. A rivalry game to me is a game with a significant emotional impact to a specific fanbase. How can that make the game important to me? It has no emotional impact to me, nor really anyone in the south; therefore, that is why i say rivalries are regional.
The other factor is that Ohio State has a HUGE alumni population and it is disbursed nationally. Yes, this is true of every school, pretty much. But, Ohio State has been on of the, if not THE, largest university for a while. Many of those Alumni are football fans. Top that off with Michigan's sizable alumni base and you truly do have "national interest"DaveyBoy;1038273; said:do I expect people in Louisiana or Idaho to be emotionally invested in OSU vs Michigan? Not really. But that's different than saying the rivalry doesn't mean much to people in all states......who are college football fans. Sure, the Army vs Navy game is emotional to a broader spectrum of Americans. But to College Football Fans the OSU vs Mich game MEANS more to College Football.
My family are all in Tennessee and MIssissippi...huge SEC fans....they always talk about how this game doesn't mean much to them but they all watch it or are interested in it. I've lived on the West Coast, New York, Memphis, Chicago, Kansas City......Columbus, Detroit. Trust me, people in all of those regions who care anything about college football outside of their particular region ALL watch or inquire about the OSU vs Mich game.
I think you underestimate it drastically.
ray6072;1038287; said:Perhaps i do underestimate its national appeal, i really can't say. I am just trying to look at it from an unbiased viewpoint. I do wonder if you all(hehe, i didn't say y'all, i've always wanted to do that) are so passionate about it, that you can't see it from our viewpoint as being just another game. To me, people asking you about OSU-Michigan is college football fans knowing you are a fan and wanting to talk about their sport, just as if i were kin to a usc fan(lord forbid) and I asked him about ucla, or he asked me about florida or Auburn. It is all in fun, we would know each other are fans, so of course we would talk about our favorite teams.