[CFB] 08-09 Season Extravaganza

[Burkex]

I wonder who OSU will give the title to this year?


Or maybe the voters will finally get a clue and see that the Big 10 blows. Either way I am pretty pissed off cause the 4 game playoff got shut down. Now we got to put up with these crappy bowls again and not get to see the best teams play each other, instead we get to see some crappy team that played a joke of a schedule (OSU) and really does not belong in the National Championship game. Last season would have been much better seeing OSU, LSU, Georgia, USC, or whoever in a 4 team playoff. Then we could have crowned a true national champion. Shit it should be a 8 team playoff but I'll take a 4 game over the BS we have now. EVERY OTHER sport has a playoffs why not college football? It makes no sense.

[Dumar]

ah awesome. so osu has a joke schedule again, i see. but all the others teams schedules are tough, right?

[Burkex]

Originally Posted by Dumar

ah awesome. so osu has a joke schedule again, i see. but all the others teams schedules are tough, right?

At least you FINALLY admit that they had a joke schedule last year.



8/30 Youngstown State TBA --LOL JOKE
9/06 Ohio TBA --LOL JOKE
9/13 @ USC 8:00 PM --WOW A REAL TEAM I AM SHOCKED!!!
9/20 Troy 1:00 PM --LOL @ TROY
9/27 Minnesota TBA =LOL
10/04 @ Wisconsin 8:00 PM =ROFL
10/11 Purdue TBA -Weak
10/18 @ Michigan State TBA -Weaker
10/25 Penn State 8:00 PM -Weakest
11/08 @ Northwestern TBA -JOKE
11/15 @ Illinois TBA -Complete JOKE USC 49-17 Ill. (Didn't Ill beat OSU?)
11/22 Michigan TBA -APP ST. GG


At least the scheduled USC. Does 1 non conference game make it a hard schedule?

[Dumar]

i was more commenting on the fact that the same mouthbeating line is repeated every year. wisc, penn, illi, msu is the same as any middle of road team from any other conference. in fact, wisconsin would probably kick the shit outta the majority of the other middle road teams.

so take your mouthbeating shit somewhere else this year please.

ps, i'm waiting on another team's good ooc schedule. show me that too.

[Burkex]

bah wrong link

[Dumar]

just to show you how stupid espn and rivals are, they make their preseason top25 polls and their SoS polls WITHOUT REGARDS TO ONE ANOTHER.

espn top25

5 big10 teams. yet for some reason, SoS is weak?

okay espn! you fucking morons. LEARN YOUR OWN POLLS.

[findar]

Originally Posted by Genjiro

We got Auburn and Colorado this year ooc, should be good games both. Colorado landing the #1 rb in the country from HS (Darrel Scott) and an improving team from last season could surprise a lot of people in the Big 12 north.

colorado sucks to play if you are playing there. if so be prepared to watch your team wore the fuck out by the 3rd.

[WillzZz]

It's like they rank teams based primarily on how much they shoveled their ESPN drivel to you during last year's regular season. WELL WE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THESE TEAMS SO LETS PUT THEM HIGH.

Preseason polls will forever be retarded. Why do you think Spurrier always votes Duke at 25th? Because they're meaningless.

[Regime]

Originally Posted by espn

1. Ohio State Buckeyes
Raise your hand if you want to see the Buckeyes back in the BCS title game … didn't think so. But with an extraordinary number of juniors and seniors returning, Ohio State seems poised to become the first team in the 112-year history of the Big Ten to win three straight outright league titles. Even if the Buckeyes lose at USC on Sept. 13, they might end up playing in the BCS title game in Miami on Jan. 8.

/facepalm

[Genjiro]

Originally Posted by findar

colorado sucks to play if you are playing there. if so be prepared to watch your team wore the fuck out by the 3rd.

Yep it's away, and I'm more worried about that game than Auburn.

[GrobbeeTrull2.0]

Originally Posted by Burkex

At least you FINALLY admit that they had a joke schedule last year.



8/30 Youngstown State TBA --LOL JOKE
9/06 Ohio TBA --LOL JOKE
9/13 @ USC 8:00 PM --WOW A REAL TEAM I AM SHOCKED!!!
9/20 Troy 1:00 PM --LOL @ TROY
9/27 Minnesota TBA =LOL
10/04 @ Wisconsin 8:00 PM =ROFL
10/11 Purdue TBA -Weak
10/18 @ Michigan State TBA -Weaker
10/25 Penn State 8:00 PM -Weakest
11/08 @ Northwestern TBA -JOKE
11/15 @ Illinois TBA -Complete JOKE USC 49-17 Ill. (Didn't Ill beat OSU?)
11/22 Michigan TBA -APP ST. GG


At least the scheduled USC. Does 1 non conference game make it a hard schedule?

Boston College has it so tough this year, amirite? Rhode Island, Notre Dame, North Carolina, NC State, Wake Forest, Maryland, Central Florida, Kent State... all gimme games to every other team in the nation. Yet I bet you'll be sucking them off harder than you do with the Pats and Sox. Some of the high school teams in Ohio could pull out a >.500 rating against that schedule.

08/30/08 at Kent State*
09/06/08 vs. Georgia Tech
09/20/08 vs. UCF*
09/27/08 vs. Rhode Island*
10/04/08 at North Carolina State*
10/18/08 vs. Virginia Tech
10/25/08 at North Carolina*
11/01/08 vs. Clemson
11/08/08 vs. Notre Dame*
11/15/08 at Florida State*
11/22/08 at Wake Forest*
11/29/08 vs. Maryland*

I'm not trying to defend Dumar here, but look - the Big10 OTHER than OSU performs well against every other conference in football. This is shown through an extensive history of bowl games, non-conference games, and whatnot.

You want some hard math? Go here and see what you can find since 1990:

OSU: 58-15 against non-conference
UofM: 46-16 against non-conference
PSU: 62-18 agianst non-conference
Wisconsin: 55-13 against non-conference
Purdue*: 30-16 against non-conference
Iowa: 38-25 against non-conference
Michigan State*: 30-19 against non-conference
N'western*: 29-29 against non-conference
Illinois*: 22-31 against non-conference
Indiana*: 32-21 against non-conference
Minnesota: 31-22 against non-conference

There is ONE losing team in that list. JUST ONE who performs below .500 against non-conference. N'western, as expected, performs exactly at .500 against non-conference. Starred are the teams that have losing records historically in conference.

Do you want some more embarassment?

Boston College versus the Big10:

PSU 19-4 against BC (Note: You said PSU was the weakest - guess we know where BC stands now.)
UofM 4-0 against BC
OSU 3-0 against BC
Mich St 3-1 against BC
Indiana 0-1 against BC (good job!)

Fuck, you guys even managed to lose to Ohio University the one time you played them.

Get the fuck out of here, the Big10 constantly performs against all other conferences as a whole, and even against the fabled SEC is only one-game down conference versus conference in the past 10 years.

Take your Big10 hate elsewhere.

[Twobit Whore]

That's not an awful schedule really. ND may be down, but they are usually a 'decent' team. UCF is coming out of nowhere, VT, FSU, Clemson, Maryland, WF.. these are all bowl game teams.

[Dumar]

people have short memories that's all. almost all of the big10 in '02 would've mopped the floor with any other conference that year (and they did). 01 miami would ANAL rape any nc teams of today. you think 41-14 was bad last year? that 01 miami team would've made osu bend over like a bitch. 100-0 i'm talking here. the same for florida, lsu, texas, usc. the 02 buckeyes would also rape the living shit outta any of those teams. but most people are new to college ball and either weren't around or don't (want?) to remember.

it's all cyclical. we haven't had a truly, truly dominate team in about half a decade. i guess 04 usc would count, but 02 osu or 01 miami would still dismantle them though. we haven't had a dominant conference either sadly. and no, the sec is good, but not dominant.

[Adam12]

I think there have been some great teams lately, but they've been offset by other great teams. LSU, USC, the Vince UT Championship Team, and Florida have all put together some amazing teams this decade. Look back to the ubr dominant Nebraska team of the 90's...not so much competition nationally.

[whatsamattau]

Good to see a CFB post going. I can't wait for the season to start.

I think it's appropriate to take this time and set the record straight, in particular the view put forth by one idiot (and he shall henceforth be referred to as the idiot) that ESPN convinces people to hate Ohio State. As a college football fan, I was forced to watch ESPN anoint OSU champions of the college football regular season despite their being at least 6 other worthy teams to consider. The argument they put forth (Led by no less than an Ohio State graduate) was that, no matter what the evidence, Ohio State was number one, and the 2nd NC spot was the only thing left to discuss.

Perhaps ESPN is so brilliant in their hatred of Ohio State that they played king maker with Ohio State *knowing* they would get their shit kicked in by a 2nd SEC team, thus generating more fan apathy and disgust with Ohio State after a 2nd consecutive National Championship Beatdown. Or maybe they are just tremendously large Big 10 homers. Oh yeah, there's that.

The year before, we had to endure this outrageous argument (led again by Herbstreit, Big 10 alum) that Michigan deserved a rematch with Ohio State in the NC despite the presence of at least one other worthy opponent. People forget how close that came to happening.

ESPN/ABC have a very lucrative TV contract with the big-10. This cannot be ignored. ESPN is *not* unbiased in their coverage of college football. They are always advocating for their cash cow, and don't you ever forget it.

So when idiots like our very own ever say that ESPN is somehow the enemy of the Big 10 or any of it's teams *Ohio State in particular*, well, idiots got be set straight.