-LSU-;1040107; said:
It's always an interesting game because of the intensity of the rivalry, but is it always relevant in the grand scheme of college football? probably most years just because there usually something pretty significant on the line, but not always. Missouri and Kansas hate each other at least as much as Michigan and Ohio State, yet nobody would try to say that game is important or relevant every year.
for the most part, yes. it is relevant to college football every year. but thats not really the point. noone said the game was important to you personally nor that it should be. i for one am fully aware that the outcome of the tOSU scum game has little bearing on the sec other than potentially affecting what team an sec school faces in what bowl. however, this does not mean that the game is somehow "irrelevant". just because YOU don't care doesn't mean that it isn't very important to others. the game is most certainly important and relevant to me every single year.
the army navy game typically has little impact on the college football landscape. but i would hardly call it irrelevant or meaningless. in my mind thats easily one of the top 5 college football rivalries.
sluTiger;1040881; said:
Based on recent history, LSU-AUBURN is as important a rivalry as OSU/Michigan. The winner of the LSU/Auburn game for the past 5 or 6 years have determined the SEC WEST and a shot at the SEC Championship game.
ya know... your arguments would have more merit if you were actually right about what goes on in your own conference.
sec championship games over the last 5 years:
2007 - lsu vrs tenn
2006 - florida vrs. arkansas
2005 - georgia vrs. lsu
2004 - auburn vrs. tenn
2003 - lsu vrs. georgia
you did say or 6 years so...
2002 - georgia vrs. arkansas
thats 4/5 or 4/6 (2/3 if you will) depending on which one better serves to prove your point i suppose.
big ten conference champs over the last 5 years:
2007 - tOSU outright champ
2006 - tOSU outright champ
2005 - tOSU/psu co champ
2004 - scum/iowa co champ
2003 - scum outright champ
again that pesky 6th year...
2002 - tOSU/iowa co champ
now i know what your going to say. co champ blah blah blah blah. lets say just for the sake of argument that the big 10 had a championship game just like the sec does. im seeing 2 (or 3 depending on how far we go back) years in which the conference champ was shared. in each case it was shared between 2 teams. meaning that if we actually had a conference championship game it would likely be those two teams who would have faced each other in order to determine the conference champ. so its very likely (depending on how the conference was split) that tOSU or scum would have been in every single conference championship game over the past 5 or 6 years. which is either 5/5 or 6/6 (1 as it were) respectively. so my response to your theory that the lsu auburn game is more relevant because the winner then had a direct shot at the conference title more often than "the game" is a big fat, "negative on your last over".
understand im not trying to take anything away from what lsu and auburn combined to do over that time period. that is flat out impressive for any two teams in any conference especially the sec. but it doesn't make your statement anymore factual.
