Rivalries and Conferences (Split from LSU v. OSU Offensive Personnel Thread)

[bigballin2987]

Originally Posted by sluTiger

Here is what I know about college football outside the SEC. The top dogs are Oklahoma, USC, Ohio State, Michigan and ND. OSU/Michigan have the greates history and rivalry but over the past 4 to 5 years Michigan has been a paper tiger. OSU won the NC 2002 against a very good Miami team.The BCS was constructed to take the "opinion" out of college football and when they finally got the formula right, people cried becuase one of the darlings, USC, was not selected over an SEC team. Teams with the easist path to the NC game are USC, OK and Ohio State becuase their SOS has not panned out in recent years. Becuase of that fact in 2004 the formula was changed to give more weight to the "opinion" of the polls. That year and UNDEFEATED SEC team did not get a shot at the NC game becuase of the popularity contest of people wanting to see USC vs. Oklahoma...

In my opinion the conferences are rated:

1. SEC
2. Big 12
3. Big 10
4. Pac 10
5. ACC

The elites this year in those conferences are basically EQUAL in talent and speed. They just all play different styles of football. I think history is great and truly enjoyed learning about OSU, but Michigan has not been good for a while. OSU is the class of the Big 10 and have been for a while...

Can I get your definition of "a while"?

1991 Michigan
1992 Michigan
1993 Ohio State and Wisconsin
1994 Penn State
1995 Northwestern
1996 Northwestern and Ohio State
1997 Michigan*
1998 Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin
1999 Wisconsin
2000 Michigan, Northwestern and Purdue
2001 Illinois
2002 Iowa and Ohio State*
2003 Michigan
2004 Iowa and Michigan
2005 Ohio State and Penn State
2006 Ohio State
2007 Ohio State

[NFBuck]

Originally Posted by bigballin2987

Can I get your definition of "a while"?

I'm guessing 2005.

[sluTiger]

Originally Posted by bigballin2987

Can I get your definition of "a while"?

1991 Michigan
1992 Michigan
1993 Ohio State and Wisconsin
1994 Penn State
1995 Northwestern
1996 Northwestern and Ohio State
1997 Michigan*
1998 Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin
1999 Wisconsin
2000 Michigan, Northwestern and Purdue
2001 Illinois
2002 Iowa and Ohio State*
2003 Michigan
2004 Iowa and Michigan
2005 Ohio State and Penn State
2006 Ohio State
2007 Ohio State

No more than the last 3 or 4 years with the advent of the SPREAD offenses and the reduction of avaible scholarships. Those two things have transformed college football into the most intersting form of football. Parity everywhere and the days of programs dominating over decades are probably over.

[Buckeyeskickbuttocks]

Originally Posted by sluTiger

No more than the last 3 or 4 years with the advent of the SPREAD offenses and the reduction of avaible scholarships. Those two things have transformed college football into the most intersting form of football. Parity everywhere and the days of programs dominating over decades are probably over.

Joe Tiller has been running the spread in the Big Ten since 1997. Before that, he was spreading it out with Wyoming since 1991. Of course, there were others running this type of O, including Northwestern, Cincinnati etc. I think you mean spead option.

[NFBuck]

Originally Posted by sluTiger

The BCS has helped level some of the anti-south bias in the mainstream press.

How did I miss this? Anti-South Bias??? Wow.