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05-09-2008, 03:39 PM
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Originally Posted by mercer_buckeye
I'll give you that, but IMO our third and fourth best teams wouldn't have a winning record in the SEC not last year. It doesn't look like it's gonna be much better this year.
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Really? I see tOSU, Wiscy, Iowa, Minny, Sparty, and NU all being improved and making bowls except Minny. Illinois, Purdue, and scUM will all be down(scUM will be really down) but all should make bowls too. Hard to predict PSU and Indiana because of their losses and off-the-field problems but PSU should make a bowl for sure and if Indiana gets Kellen Lewis back, they can too. I think the Big-10 will be much improved.
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I'll give you that, but IMO our third and fourth best teams wouldn't have a winning record in the SEC not last year.
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How do you judge that? Do you replace them with the SEC's 3rd and 4th best teams or do you add them into the SEC and make it a 14 team conference? Either way, I still think you're selling the SEC too high. |
05-09-2008, 03:55 PM
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People keep underrating Wisconsin as the third best team in the Big Ten. In their bowl game, they played Tennessee as close or closer than LSU did. I hardly think Wisconsin would finish under .500 in SEC play. They probably wouldn't win the conference, but they certainly would hold their own.
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05-09-2008, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Gatorubet
3 of the last 5 MNCs, and the last 2, are owned by the SEC. Until somebody knocks us off, we're gonna have bragging rights and the resultant hyperbole fallout, no matter how obnoxious that may be.
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so what was your excuse before the last 2? |
05-09-2008, 04:18 PM
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Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27
so what was your excuse before the last 2?
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Please explain.
You're knot clear.
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05-09-2008, 05:40 PM
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Originally Posted by BuckeyeNation27
so what was your excuse before the last 2?
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"SEC is too tough. Conference championship game keeps knocking our teams out of it. SEC Championship game is the real national championship, anyway. Luckeyes didn't deserve to go in 2002. Nebraska didn't deserve to go in 2001. Chokelahoma was overrated in 2004. Big 12 and Big 10 schedules are soft. blah blah blah"
That should cover most of it. 
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05-09-2008, 06:02 PM
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Again, I don't know exactly what he meant.
We do have 9 MNCs in the last 30 years.
I don't think we need excuses so much. 
You should be playing for one this year. Three in a row will be a remarkable achievement. I'll be there rooting for you, unless.... 
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05-09-2008, 06:57 PM
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Buckeyes still #1 with me!
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It seems pretty clear that we need the Big Ten to do well in OOC games this year. We don't need Appalachian State repeated. I think, by the way, that TSUN may not be as bad as everyone thinks. They may even give Ntre Ame a game.
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05-09-2008, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by OregonBuckeye
I still think you're selling the SEC too high.
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They receive way too much credit, but you have to admit it is a very tough conference. I'm not judging that as top to bottom. I'm saying their top four teams are very fucking good. You go four deep in the Big Ten you've got a pretty average team last year. I'm not bashing the Big Ten I'm just giving my opinion and you know what those are like. | |
