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Also, the final big12 championship game is shaping up to be a Nebraska/Oklahoma game, which is really just fitting. The problem is, it's also shaping up to be a Nebraska win, which I'm really not excited for.
They booed him even harder when he came back in on the next play.
And this is why USC fans are some of the worst people I have interacted with.
Look, I know it sucks to have a not-great football team. I grew up in Norman, OK... I very much remember the 90s when OU was terribad. Jesus, there's been 3 seasons in the 00s when OU was horrible...
And then we hired a great coach and won a national championship.
Every team has a bad year every now and then. It happens. True fans still support the team in the bad years, though.
Are you talking about the guy who went down in the 4th quarter?
Because he ragdolled when he got hit. Like, straight up went limp as soon they made contact. I honestly thought he was knocked out when I saw the tackle.
Way to be classy, Oregon fans.
1998 was the greatest game I've ever watched.
We beat Notre Dame five or six years ago when they were ranked number 10 I believe.
I guess it depends on what you think of as recent. That Ohio State game seems like forever ago, and although it was nice, I don't think it meant as much at the time because we were already out of the running for the Big Ten that year. Don't get me wrong, it was still awesome and I was beaming all week, but this feels more important.
Fucking Texas. All of a sudden, Nebraska's schedule is looking like Boise's. Possibility of not playing a ranked team until the Big XII title game? Alive and well!
Oh, and Colorado rushed the fucking field after beating Georgia to send them to 1-4.
No. That was ugly and I was glad to see him get up under his own power.
Rank - Team - 1st place votes - Record - Poll Points - Previous Rank
1 Alabama (58) 5-0 1,497 1
2 Ohio State (1) 5-0 1,401 2
3 Oregon 5-0 1,379 4
4 Boise State (1) 4-0 1,341 3
5 TCU 5-0 1,250 5
6 Oklahoma 5-0 1,183 8
7 Nebraska 4-0 1,172 6
8 Auburn 5-0 1,045 10
9 Arizona 4-0 898 14
10 Utah 4-0 860 13
11 Arkansas 3-1 825 15
12 LSU 5-0 819 12
13 Miami (FL) 3-1 769 16
14 Florida 4-1 681 7
15 Iowa 4-1 670 17
16 Stanford 4-1 663 9
17 Michigan State 5-0 607 24
18 Michigan 5-0 555 19
19 South Carolina 3-1 450 20
20 Wisconsin 4-1 316 11
21 Nevada 5-0 286 25
22 Oklahoma State 4-0 173 NR
23 Florida State 4-1 162 NR
24 Missouri 4-0 99 NR
25 Air Force 4-1 94 NR
Good week for Arizona. Nothing like moving up 5 spots during a bye week.
If I remember correctly, it was number 44, Thomas, one of their linebackers. He sat down on the ground after the play while the trainers came out. He kept pointing at his ankle but he was clearly in no pain. Oregon fans booed, because lately teams have been faking injuries to slow down the offense. They booed even louder when that same player jogged out to the huddle the next play.
Air Force! I love to see the service academies on the list.
Nebraska is making a statement now. Well done.
Penn State dropped out.
LSU is soooo not going to last at #12.
Arkansas is almost back to where it was before Alabama.
The Michigans are next to each other with the same record. That can't be pleasant for either of them.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
I liked this one.
So it seems clear that the Steve Addazio as Offensive Coordinator and Offensive Line Coach experiment is in serious peril. I'm hoping we bring in Leach.
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Yeah, our fans are pretty classy. Last year at the UCLA football game some one (everyone assumes to be an Oregon fan) broke into a car that had a UCLA blanket in the backseat and urinated on it. In the car.
I hoped it was some douche from Springfield and not a student, but odds are 50/50.
That said, WOOOTT!!! #3 baby!
Most USC fans believe that their football team took a 10 year hiatus in the 90s.
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Also happy to see Iowa moving up. We have a big couple weeks after our bye this week.
Erandus, it was good to see ISU get a good win. Especially with such a high score. I would like to see them get to another bowl game this year.
This was probably already discussed in the last thread, but Florida did not look too good last night. I feel like they should have dropped a little further. #7 Team in the nation can't put up more than 2FGs or hold Bama back at all, while the #10 team provides a game that is decided by a touchdown. Just a thought.
Are ISU and Iowa big interstate rivals like MSU and Michigan? Or are they kind of nonchalant like OSU and Ohio...?
This also begs the question: why is Alabama being regarded as some immortal demon when Arkansas (last week if I recall correctly) definitely exposed some of their weaknesses? Sure they cut down a higher-ranked team yesterday, but they are not invincible like ESPN would like us to believe.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
As far as Bama, they are most defenitly a good team. I won't deny that. But that last article you linked is crazy talk. Florida wasn't a top ten team going into this game. Thanks, preseason rankings with 4 easy games for that. I think Arkansas for sure showed that Alabama is beatable, and it seems like the best way to do so is a good defense. (I would love to see Iowa play Alabama, but that's just me :P)
The CyHawk was just started in the 90's (I believe). The football rivalry goes back though.
EDIT: I am wrong, they Cy-Hawk trophy was started 1977 after a hiatus of football matchups since, like, 1938. Iowa and ISU also compete for a school wide athletics trophy, the Cy-Hawk Series, which was started in 2004, I believe.
And basketball is the reverse. Hockey though: Fuck you, State.
OU has to make football the big sport because OSU kicks their butt (and most other schools) in every other sport. I think OSU has the 4th highest amount of national championships in FBS schools. IIRC an inordinate amount is from golf though.
Even there Michigan has the most titles. We've just won a championship more recently.
Which reminds me, I need to take the wife to a few games at Munn this year. She likes ice hockey, but only in person.
It's more fuck you, State because you play the most mind numbingly awful brand of hockey on the planet.
Also, this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI-sYE1DsMs
I totally did not see Fifty freaking Two points coming. It was pretty much a perfect game from an ISU standpoint. It was tied at one point, but we pulled away and had exciting plays at the end to win, though the game was never in critical danger late enough to make me freak about losing it. I enjoyed that game even more than the UNI shutout the previous week, because we clicked on both sides of the ball at times.
Beating a B12 south team is such a joy. I went and read the raiderpower message boards, and they were in full fucking meltdown. Their tears, they tasted so, so sweet.
Iowa/PSU game went about like I expected. Alabama spanked PSU but everyone figured that's just cause Bama was a legit #1. Iowa finished the job of exposing them as a pretty fucking mediocre team.
Texas is out of the top 25 for the first time in a decade.
Baylor received 10 votes for the AP poll.
Of the four Texas-based Big XII teams, Baylor is the only one that won this week. And they wanted us out of the Big XII.
Also: I grew up in Lubbock, and Red Raider tears are some of the most sweetest things I'll ever taste. I don't care who they play, they can lose every athletic contest for the next 100 years and I would be perfectly fine with that. Need some humble pie....
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Well... to be fair, it's not like Baylor wins games in the Big XII very often...
So yeah, everyone else in the Big XII wants them gone.
I had to look up the facts about OSU having the 4th highest amount of national championships, and what do you know, it was true. Most of them are wrestling national titles (34 of the 49 total), while only 10 are from golf.
Being 4th is pretty good when you consider that the top 3, UCLA, Stanford, and USC, are at 106, 99, and 91.
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Those numbers will never be right. There are many ways to interpret "national titles" for all varsity sports throughout history. None of them will ever be agreed upon, even by NCAA regulations.
Even the Sears Cup that tracks current sports isn't without bias.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
It was Michigan, which is why I bring it up. Sadly, the only national title we won while I was a student.
Huh...I guess Tropp and Conboy are Ortmeyer fans
Yeah, Michigan Hockey players would never aim for the head of a player who's not even looking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMLHqHu8NMY
Fuck State hockey.
EDIT: It should be noted that the good player was suspended for the rest of the season and led the conference in goals last year (until a crappy Michigan team kind of hilariously went to East Lansing and upset them in the conference tournament, with a Michigan crowd taking over Munn Ice Arena) while the guy who sucked was kicked off. Mmmm Sparty justice.
Field Hockey while I was there. And at least one individual gymnastics champ! And I think a diver or swimmer o two.
It's kind of embarrassing that that was our first women's team championship. What, '02?
Ten grand.
Am I really incredibly stupid and a horrible person for considering getting it and taking a bunch of friends and family? I won't be able to sleep about this until I make up my mind. I mean, it's so much money I'd have to take some kind of business associate just to be able to write it off (and to charge the corporate card to get the tickets), but it doesn't seem like all that much for such a huge game and such amazing seats.
I am so lost now.