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Started by grumbler, March 21, 2013, 07:27:00 PM

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Berkut

#105
August 05, 2013, 04:54:52 PM
The problem with Texas winning a conference championship is that it is a Big12 conference championship, and hence not really meaningful anyway.
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MadBurgerMaker

#106
August 05, 2013, 04:57:38 PM Last Edit: August 05, 2013, 05:04:56 PM by MadBurgerMaker
Texas, Big 12 member: More Rose Bowl wins than Arizona.  Hell they didn't even have to win the Big 12 to get in there one of those years.

E:  Johnny Hancock news:  His "assistant" was apparently telling autograph brokers he wouldn't sign anything for free prior to this big signing.

Valmy

#107
August 05, 2013, 05:00:50 PM
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on August 05, 2013, 04:57:38 PM
Texas, Big 12 member: More Rose Bowl wins than Arizona.

Well to be fair Harvard, Ivy League member: More Rose Bowl wins than Arizona.
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#108
August 05, 2013, 05:05:33 PM
Quote from: Valmy on August 05, 2013, 05:00:50 PM
Well to be fair Harvard, Ivy League member: More Rose Bowl wins than Arizona.

Harsh.  Hey TCU got one too a couple years back as a MWC member.  Maybe I'm overestimating the value of going to the Rose Bowl?

grumbler

#109
August 05, 2013, 05:08:53 PM
I am very much looking forward to this season.  I think Michigan is going to surprise a lot of people.  My prediction:  11-1 in the regular season, and B10 CG winner.  I think the loss is likeliest to come to Northwestern; Northwestern isn't your dad's Northwestern.

I think the biggest laugh this season in the Big Ten is that the conference officials are assuring everyone that, while it seems quite possible that Michigan will play Ohio twice in two weeks (The Game, then the conference championship game), it can only happen this year.  The fact of the matter is that the boneheaded divisional assignments of the last 3 years was designed to produce exactly this result!  UM and OSU failed to win their divisions the last two years, though.
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Berkut

#110
August 05, 2013, 05:09:37 PM
I am completely impervious to any slurs on my Wildcats in regards to Rose Bowl wins. Or appearances.

Skin is much too thick at this point.
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#111
August 05, 2013, 05:10:29 PM
Speaking of TCU, they seem like they could be pretty solid this year.  They should probably stop losing starters for "personal" reasons though.  One of their LBs (Joel Hasley) left the team today.  They lost their starting LT earlier in the offseason in the same way.

MadBurgerMaker

#112
August 05, 2013, 05:37:49 PM
Quote from: grumbler on August 05, 2013, 05:08:53 PM
I think the biggest laugh this season in the Big Ten is that the conference officials are assuring everyone that, while it seems quite possible that Michigan will play Ohio twice in two weeks (The Game, then the conference championship game), it can only happen this year.  The fact of the matter is that the boneheaded divisional assignments of the last 3 years was designed to produce exactly this result!  UM and OSU failed to win their divisions the last two years, though.

Oh right, they're going to be in the same division next year.  I'd forgotten about that.   The East is/will be stacked. 

Savonarola

#113
August 05, 2013, 05:44:11 PM
I took a road trip to Gainesville last winter.  I was amused that the football stadium ("The Swamp") is at the dead center of campus and everything radiates from there; as though someone decided to build a university around a pre-existing stadium.

It was especially amusing in that the theater and museum were exiled far from main campus, beyond the experimental farms. 
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Savonarola

#114
August 05, 2013, 05:47:41 PM
In any event it's a foregone conclusion in these parts that Ohio State will win the Big Ten only to be humiliated by Florida in a BCS bowl.   :)
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MadImmortalMan

#115
August 05, 2013, 05:49:37 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on August 05, 2013, 05:47:41 PM
In any event it's a foregone conclusion in these parts that Ohio State will win the Big Ten only to be humiliated by Florida in a BCS bowl.   :)

Florida won't get picked to go to the Rose Bowl, so no. They'll probably get humiliated by Oregon.  :P
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#116
August 05, 2013, 06:08:15 PM
Quote from: grumbler on August 05, 2013, 04:52:17 PM
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 05, 2013, 03:00:00 PM
And he still has another year to wait before Maryland gets in the B10.   :(

And when they do, they will share a division with Michigan, Ohio, and Penn State.  Good luck with that!  :P

No kidding.  Nothing like a perpetual last-week-of-August season the whole year long as everybody's tune-up game.  Yay for me.

Stupid ND and their uniform bullshit.  Should've at least stuck with the white-on-black SS Leprechaun from last year one more time.

Valmy

#117
August 05, 2013, 06:18:18 PM
Quote from: MadBurgerMaker on August 05, 2013, 05:10:29 PM
Speaking of TCU, they seem like they could be pretty solid this year.  They should probably stop losing starters for "personal" reasons though.  One of their LBs (Joel Hasley) left the team today.  They lost their starting LT earlier in the offseason in the same way.

After their total personnel meltdown last season, and my rather premature report on their demise, I have decided TCU really has a one item checklist:

Is Gary Patterson still their head coach?  Yes?  Then they will be fine.
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#118
August 05, 2013, 06:18:45 PM
Quote from: Savonarola on August 05, 2013, 05:47:41 PM
In any event it's a foregone conclusion in these parts that Ohio State will win the Big Ten only to be humiliated by Florida in a BCS bowl.   :)

That would be the Floridians dream outcome, for sure. :lol:

I could see Florida v Ohio in a BCS bowl this year, when neither win their conference.
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Ed Anger

#119
August 05, 2013, 08:11:40 PM
I'm keeping expectations low. Ohio State goes 7-5.

And on any other forum, Grumber calling ohio state 'ohio' world have a pack of Buckeyes braying for his blood.

Not here though. :goodboy:
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