Don't Bet On It!: The College Football National Game of Disinterest
by T Kyle King on Oct 6, 2011 11:45 AM EDT
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PrintWe have taken a look at what is, to be blunt, rather a weak college football slate on the national scene, so, before we turn to the much more intriguing matchups to be found in the SEC, I would like to take this opportunity to identify the national game of disinterest.
On a weekend as bland as this one, it was particularly challenging trying to pick out the single least intriguing, inspiring, or even interesting contest on tap this Saturday, but, after much persistent effort, I found it. Ladies and gentlemen, the national game of disinterest is . . .
This was the one we were all looking forward to during the offseason, right? The ‘Huskers, long the class of the Big Eight and lately resurgent in the Big 12, arrived in the Big Ten looking to make some noise, and the Buckeyes, long the class of the Midwestern BCS league, would visit Lincoln as the representative of the conference’s old guard. The storyline was as set in stone as it was perfectly suited to sepia-toned ESPN puff pieces featuring sonorous voice-overs and languid camerawork lingering over pictures of the icons of old.
Unfortunately for college football’s haughtiest conference, this is 2011, and both Ohio State and Nebraska are reeling. Certainly, neither team looks like a contender, as each combatant limps into the arena 0-1 in Big Ten play after Wisconsin took Nebraska behind the woodshed and Michigan State beat Ohio State by an American League baseball score in a game that made announcers want to take their own lives and prompted bloggers to advocate firing everyone.
These two programs have storied histories and tons of tradition. At the moment, though, they also have crappy football teams, and I’m not watching two crummy clubs duke it out just because I’ve heard of them both. If I cared about that, I’d watch Army play Notre Dame.
Coming Soon: The sweet relief of actual SEC predictions.
Go ‘Dawgs!
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that's it then
you’ve left me with no choice than to send hundreds of angry Cornhusker fans to your site to comment. Maybe two or three actually will.
We’re not crappy.. mmmmmmkay? We’re just not top ten material.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
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Don't worry about this.
Honestly, has there been a more irrelevant team over the past 20 years than Georgia?
twitter - devidee33
We'll see...
The post is just irony at it’s finest considering the fact UGA plays Tennessee this week.
Now that’s an interesting game!
twitter - devidee33
That shot won't get you any bites because it's total weak sauce. Espcially since we have to go back to 2001 to find Nebraska relevance.
"The ball ain't heavy." - Herschel Walker
It's 0-1. '92 Citrus
Oh wait. You are simply leaching off of other SEC teams that are better than yours.
My bad. Carry on.
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My apologies, devidee33; I assumed you were a jackass Nebraska fan.
I didn’t realize you were a jackass Ohio State fan. Now I can get back to ignoring you.
Have fun getting hammered by the NCAA!
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Oct 6, 2011 4:12 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Rec'd for the Mayor making me spit out water all over my gov't computer!
Success is never final. --Winston Churchill
That game was played on Jan 1, 1993.
But I can leach on to the Air Force that beat you the year before, Auburn the year before that. Or just point to your 23 in 43 bowl record tearing it up at barely over .500. And I dont have to worry about seeing you any bowls for a while.
My bad. Carry on.
"The ball ain't heavy." - Herschel Walker
My bad. The '92 season.
Hey, not all of us get to play powerhouse programs like Hawaii and UCF in bowl games.
At least you guys went 1-1 in those two.
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And not all of us support a lying, cheating athletic program.
"The ball ain't heavy." - Herschel Walker
Yeah, and, since those are the only two bowl games we played during . . .
. . . our 20 years of irrelevancy, that’s an entirely valid point!
Oh, wait . . . I’m sorry. I forgot; you’re an idiot.
Go 'Dawgs!
The NCAA mandated that you vacate your wins...
Not your sense of humor. Didn’t you get the memo?
by TreeDawgNight on Oct 6, 2011 4:40 PM EDT up reply actions
Keep going, devidee33.
Before long, you’re going to run out of bowl losses!
During that 20 years of “irrelevance,” Georgia is 13-4 in bowl games . . . and we still get to count all the ones we won!
Go 'Dawgs!
by T Kyle King on Oct 7, 2011 2:21 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
Didnt Georgia lose to a non AQ already this season on
National TV? Way to rep the SEC
www.charliebaumandeservedit.com
Hey at least they did not lose to a non-AQ in a bowl game. . .
Again, Oh, wait. . .
www.charliebaumandeservedit.com
Bro...
They held the UCF Knights to just 10 points. You think just any old SEC team could do that?
I didn’t think so.
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Yeah, we were a bad team last year, . . .
. . . and we lost to two top 15 teams to start this year.
That makes Ohio State, and this game, suck less . . . how?
(By the way, it’s called a sense of humor. I guess they don’t teach that in the Big Ten?)
Go 'Dawgs!
Uh, yea, it does, both teams have an oppurtunity to go to a conference championship.
You on the other hand, can stand out in front of Coach Vest’s house and continue to tell him “it’s ok.”
"The ball ain't heavy." - Herschel Walker
Well, mathematically, . . .
. . . I guess y’all technically haven’t been eliminated, if that’s what you mean.
Go 'Dawgs!
I'm surprised that there are actually people out there...
who know which teams belong to which division.
by TreeDawgNight on Oct 6, 2011 4:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Surprisingly not too difficult
Basically north/south, then add “Why is Wisconsin here?” and “Where is Wisconsin?”.
by drothgery on Oct 6, 2011 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
All the M's, all the N's, and Iowa are in one division.
Everybody else is in the other.
I have no idea which one is Leaders and which one is Legends, but since Nebraska starts with an “N” and Wisconsin doesn’t start with “M” or an “N” and is not Iowa, then I assume that was a cross-division game.
This is most helpful...
The problem with trying to mentally divide the teams north/south, as drothgery suggested, is that Nebraska, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania basically lie in an east/west arrangement, which means I would need to know precisely where in each of those states their respective universities lie – which I don’t. Grouping the schools using letters is a much simpler mental exercise than using geography.
by TreeDawgNight on Oct 7, 2011 10:37 AM EDT up reply actions
"Charlie Bauman Deserved It"?
Thanks, JamBoyce. When you identified yourself as a guy who celebrates coaches punching players in the throat, you made it very easy for me to dismiss you as beneath my notice.
Have a nice life.
Go 'Dawgs!
All right, I'll give you that one, devidee33.
That was funny. Try being the guy who wrote that comment more often than being the jackleg who wrote all the comments above this one, and you’ll find yourself welcome here.
Go 'Dawgs!
At least Ohio St finally beat an SEC team in a bowl too
oh, wait…
http://sportsandgrits.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Oct 7, 2011 8:55 AM EDT up reply actions 2 recs
"I already went there" --> "I have already gone there."
/keeps poking the sleeping dog, assumes nothing will happen
I'm sorry, devidee33, . . .
. . . I couldn’t hear you over the sound of all those top ten final rankings between 2002 and 2007.
You should expand your definition of “relevance” to include more than just corncobs. Actually, you and a Faulkner character have that in common.
(By the way, if we’re that irrelevant . . . why are you here?)
Go 'Dawgs!
Devidee is an EDSBS'er.
He probably doesn’t realize that trolling and general douchebaggery is frowned upon here, rather than celebrated as an art form like it is there.
woohoo!!
so a bunch of y’all met over here!!!!
sorry, i was working really hard between that first comment, the twitter thing, and now this.
wait – this is the flight to back to relevance, right? And there’s only room for one of us? Because I’m not going to miss it.
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Jon, I apologize to you, and to your fellow Nebraska fans, for initially mistaking devidee33 . . .
. . . for a Cornhusker fan.
I should’ve known better. The Nebraska fans have been cordial and funny, and the Ohio State fans have been bitter and nasty. I guess they’re still mad that Carl Monday caught them using the public computers.
We look forward to visiting Nebraska the next time the Diamond Dogs make the College World Series.
Go 'Dawgs!
Just remember Kyle
if Clemson is Auburn with a Lake, then Ohio St is just Auburn with Yankees.
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by Mr. Sanchez on Oct 7, 2011 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions 4 recs
I regret that I have but one "Rec" to give for this comment.
Since the SB Nation technical team has not yet devised a “Hell Rec” button, all I was able to do was click “Rec” really, really hard.
Green University of Georgia tartan plaid this comment!
Go 'Dawgs!
Kyle, didn't this exact same thing happen last year when you included tOSU in an NGODI column?
I’m not sure how they find it. Troll every blog every week looking for negative references?
Ohio St is like Auburn and Texas, they think you are supposed to like them, just because.
"The ball ain't heavy." - Herschel Walker
ha
probably found it because i have over 8k twitter followers and told them to attack with vengeance!
or… they troll the web looking for negative references. take your pick.
Go Big Red Nebraska!
Our Cobs Are Bigger Than Yours!
Corn Nation!
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Are there really people...
… who troll the web looking for references to themselves and/or their teams?
(This is a sort-of inside Dawg Sports joke, Jon… not a pejorative reference to you or Corn Nation.)
Wow...
This was a fun read.
Truth be told, I’m looking forward to Nebraska’s first Big Ten?Eleven?Twelve? victory.
"Don't go ninja'n nobody that don't need ninja'n!" ~ Kung Fu Hillbilly.
As I said in some thread somewhere last week...
… I’m just longing for the day when we see a Nebraska-Colorado Rose Bowl. :-)
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