Texas vs. Ohio State. I'm rooting for a meteor hitting the stadium.

[SoxFan]

The Overrated Bowl.

[crimsonblue]

1. OSU is going to lose by, 20 or 30 points.

The Big Ten is an overrated, slow conference. They have been left back in the 90s.

[SoxFan]

4. The '90s? More like the early 70s.

Too many schools still buying into the stupid Woody Hayes belief that "three things can happen when you pass, and two of them are bad".

[johnnie]

9. You don't bother with stats?

OSU has done pretty well since the early 70s

[SoxFan]

15. My complaint is with the overrated Big 10

A boring conference that gets puffed up because of television coverage in new York.

Look at this year's Bowl results.

Florida State over Wisconsin
Mizzou over Northwestern
Kansas over Minnesota
USC over Penn State
Georgia over Michigan State

Only Iowa won, and they had the good fortune of playing the masters of flopping in the clutch, South Cackalacky.

Yet next season, OSU and company will benefit from trumped-up "strength of schedule" criteria in the polls.

[johnnie]

18. That's just this year

You were saying since the early 70s and I don't think it's been that bad.

[SoxFan]

19. The Big 10 hasn't won a Rose Bowl in almost a decade

[lizziegrace]

25. Buckeyes won the National Championship in 2001

in triple overtime with a quarterback no one thought could do it. That was better than the Rose Bowl to Buckeye fans.

[Enthusiast]

77. 2002 nt

[johnnie]

60. "OSU is going to lose by, 20 or 30 points."

Your bookie must love you..lol

[crimsonblue]

65. i don't gamble

i was suprised that a big ten team actually didn't suck for once...

[yellowcanine]

68. Oops. I bet you wish you could have that one back. Only off by a power of 10.

[lizziegrace]

2. My daughter and all my money go to Ohio State

Go Bucks! :)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

10. Go OSU!!

:bounce: :hug:

[lizziegrace]

12. Yay!!

Another Buckeye fan. ;)

[SalmonChantedEvening]

13. Yes'm

Our HS football uniforms were basically the same as OSU during the 70's and 80's.

:snugshoulder:

:loveya:

[NoPasaran]

3. A meteor? Piffle!

Let's go asteroid!

[Zavulon]

5. I hate both teams too, but

I'll root for OSU because Bush doesn't come from Columbus.

[lizziegrace]

6. Hehe.

:)

[Writer]

7. Austin isn't Texas, m'dear!

Hook 'em.

[Texasgal]

8. That's right!

HOOK "EM!

[Fleshdancer]

11. You obviously have NEVER been to Austin

We work our asses off in this little blue spot surrounded by a red sea of stupid. We managed to piss them off enough to redistrict us into tiny shattered fragments. Certainly a little support for our football team wouldn't kill ya. x(

[Zavulon]

74. You're right, I've never been to Austin.

Your boys won without my support anyway.

Sorry, but after eight years of Bush even hearing the name of your state makes me cringe. It's nothing personal against anyone but him.

[KamaAina]

23. This just in: He doesn't come from Austin, either.

Or from Crawford, for that matter.

Come to think of it, by that standard, you really should have been rooting for Buffalo over Connecticut in the International Bowl.

[Paladin]

14. Hook 'Em. (UT Class of 1972) (n/t)

[Writer]

17. 1997 here, dawlin'! n/t

[Taverner]

16. Well considering I think all Texas football is brute force and ignorance

And Ohio State and Michigan are all about nuance

I would hope OSU wins!

[KamaAina]

20. Naaaah.

The meteor'd probably miss. :boring:

Also, why in the name of the FSM is there still college football? I get the weekend-after-New Year's thing, sort of, but even that's past now. :eyes:

[GOPisEvil]

21. I am cheering for the officials.

Don't give me that Big XII loyalty crapola. I want both teams to lose. Badly. :D

[RoyGBiv]

24. I hate Ohio State ...

I at least respect Texas. So, maybe it's Big XII loyalty ... dunno, but since someone, I guess, has to win ...

[lizziegrace]

26. And that's fine

I grew up hating the Dallas Cowboys, Texas and Notre Dame. :)

[GOPisEvil]

27. I hate no one.

If I had to pick one set of fans over another, I'd pick the OSU fans. I've had my fill of Texas fans. It was the worst thing about living in Austin. ;)

[lizziegrace]

29. ...

:*

[GOPisEvil]

31. I had to get XM to get away from all Longhorn sports radio.

Nuts! Drove me NUTS, I tells ya!

:*

[RoyGBiv]

32. Oddly enough ...

Of all the fans I've dealt with from an opponent's perspective, Texas fans are among my favorites, second to Nebraska fans. During the years at OU between Switzer and Stoops when we lost ALL THE TIME, I had dinner and drinks bought for me after OU losses at OU-TX games several times and had fans tell me they wished OU would get better again so that the rivalry meant more.

I do hate though, and all my hate is directed squarely at Ohio State.

[Zomby Woof]

33. However

I believe an automatic death penalty is in order for anyone who calls OSU "THE Ohio State University". :puke:

[GOPisEvil]

38. I don't know when that started, but it is quite annoying.

[Zomby Woof]

41. Extremely so

Considering how I am against the death penalty in all other circumstances (except possibly people who don't return their shopping carts). :P

[Fleshdancer]

36. but we still love you

HOOK 'EM!!!!

:D

[RoyGBiv]

22. I propose a new rating system ...

Find a team no one that doesn't go there has ever heard of and crown them national champions. I don't care what their record is. Hell, I don't even care if they have a team. Find a couple dozen people willing to dress up in football uniforms and take a picture some Saturday afternoon and publish that picture as the team photo of the champions.

Makes more sense than what we have, where every good team is derided by someone, somewhere as overrated.

[gratuitous]

28. God, another Big 12 stink bomb

When is the NCAA going to recognize that the Big 12 just flat isn't a BCS conference? A mediocre Ohio State team has held "mighty" Texas to 3 first half points. Florida, which has some claim to being in the championship game, is going to crush Oklahoma come Thursday night.

The Big 12 is a very bad joke, keeping a lot of far more deserving teams out of the BCS bowls.

[SoxFan]

39. Let's just crown USC the national champions

If there was a legitimate system, i.e., a playoff, the Trojans would win in a walk. I say this as an SEC fan with no personal connection to the Pac 10 or Southern Cal.

[gratuitous]

44. I'd like to see USC-Florida

Because, as I say, Florida has some claim (inexplicable loss to Ole Miss or Ole Miss State, whoever it was, aside) to competing for the national championship. But after seeing USC's dismantling of Penn State in the Rose Bowl, it's hard for anyone who isn't getting paid to say it (looking at you Fox chuckleheads) to claim that Florida-Oklahoma represents the two best teams this year in college football.

[Fleshdancer]

45. Yeah, OSU is blowing UT away with that large 3 point lead. edit: OH WAIT!

:eyes:


ON EDIT: No wait, the big 12 sucks after UT's 4 point lead? Do I have the facts right? Is that it?


2nd EDIT: OUCH. 11 pts now. :D

[gratuitous]

48. Got it in one

Yes, the Big 12 sucks. You clearly didn't go to a Big 12 "skool."

[gratuitous]

61. And they've now blown every bit of that 11 point lead

OUCH-e-wa-wa. Texas isn't accustomed to playing games that go all four quarters. This isn't like playing Florida Atlantic.

Wait, that was unfair. Florida Atlantic won their bowl game.

[Fleshdancer]

63. We blew away that lead and we still won. What was your point again?

You won your bowl game? Certainly there was more to it to that, right? Please...do tell. :D

[johnnie]

30. Hook Em Bucks!

[Twillig]

34. My god they're showing the halftime and

the band is playing Stairway to Heaven.



They cut away. Please don't return. give me commercials.

[Writer]

35. The Longhorn Band is playing Zeppelin...

Kashmir then Stairway.

LOL

:rofl:

[TZ]

40. yeah...thats ummmm

bizarre or as a friend says S+R (sick and wrong)

[Zomby Woof]

37. I'll take the meteor

And the spread. :toast:

[blondeatlast]

42. Hey, I live perilously close to that stadium--but yeah, I know what you mean... nt

[GOPisEvil]

43. Duck and cover!

:D

[Fleshdancer]

46. HOOK EM' HORNS!

:woohoo:

[Writer]

47. Woohoooo!

:headbang:

[Giant Robot]

49. Is there anyway both teams can lose?

Says the Michigan alum.

[GOPisEvil]

50. I flipped to the game, saw people wearing baby-shit brown jumping up and down...

...flipped back to Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.

[Writer]

51. I guess it's better than Baby Puke Maroon. n/t

[GOPisEvil]

52. What kind of babies do they have in your family?

:scared:

[Writer]

54. Ones with a little CLASS!

Hook 'em.

:headbang:

[leftyclimber]

53. I'm red-green colorblind.

We gave up on watching the game (no dog in the hunt) but for the first little bit I was having a hell of a time figuring out if Ohio State was the light-colored team or the dark-colored team on long shots.

[johnnie]

55. Hook Em Bucks!

:woohoo:

[Writer]

56. Hmmm... I'm not feeling too good about this...

[Texasgal]

57. Gahhh!

I am PISSSSSSSSSSSSED!!

[Fleshdancer]

58. I agree

It looks like most of our team thinks the game is over already. :scared:

[johnnie]

59. Go Bucks!

:woohoo:

[Wapsie B]

62. Yeah me too.

Couldn't they both lose?

[Fleshdancer]

64. Great game. Thanks to both OSU and UT for the entertainment tonight.

I hate to see the season end.

[tigereye]

66. looks like a meteor did hit!

:rofl:

[Algorem]

67. my mother knew the ohio state coach's mother,she died a few

years ago ,and ohio state ended up doing really great,i don't follow it so i can't give you any details,but ohio state always did really great annd my mother always told me that it was her friend,the coach's mother,who did it.

[Bake]

69. Once again, Ohio State finds a way to lose.

:rofl: :rofl: :woohoo: :rofl: :rofl:

Bake

[jobycom]

70. And Texas finds a way to win.

They were one dropped interception from being undefeated.

[Bake]

71. True true true ... the last Texas drive was great.

I just wanted to take a shot at Ohio State. Not trying to take anything away from Texas. I thought they'd win by more.

Bake

[TZ]

72. Texas lost to a team...

That got their asses handed to them by Oklahoma..Hmmm.
I wouldn't be hating on Ohio State losing in such a way to Texas. People in glass houses and all that.
Oh btw, TT ALSO got its tail kicked in the bowl game. I'm thinking that Texas isn't nearly the quality team people think it is.
I'd love to see what Utah would've done to them

[jobycom]

73. and Oklahoma lost to Texas, Florida and TT lost to Miss, who lost to Alabama

who lost to Utah...

If Oklahoma beats Florida, Texas will have beaten the "National Champions," but lost to the team that lost to Alabama, who was beaten by Florida, who was beaten by Utah. If Florida wins, then the "National Champion" will have lost to Mississippi, who lost to Alabama, who lost to Utah.

Utah's the only possible "National Champion."

The whole idea of a national champion in college football is dumb. There are too many teams, and not enough common opponents. It's like the argument in "Stand By Me," about who would win a fight between Superman and Mighty Mouse. The only team with an unarguable case this year is Utah, and they won't even be considered.

[PfcHammer]

75. What a bunch of bitter hatas. Bet you're all clinging to your guns

and religion. Hook 'em. ;)

[azmouse]

76. Ixnay on the eteormay....

I live only 5 miles from that stadium. :P