Anyone else tailgating for THE Game?
I've got Pandora set to the Pink Floyd channel and the Grey Goose is flowing. It's time to get this party started!!!!
I will be in about an hour or so, heading out soon.
Ohio State vs Michigan: Predictions?
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I will be in about an hour or so, heading out soon.
My point is that it won't be that great of a game. Of course, this week's action is really bad, so maybe this will be the best game of the weekend
Nowhere near THE biggest.
Some pro rivalries rate better. Not to mention some huge College Basketball ones (Duke-UNC).
Plus in the Southeast no care could care about it, as they have Auburn-Alabama and a few others. Plus the Left Coast has USC-UCLA. And don't forget Army-Navy.
In the mid-west it might be the biggest, but outside that area, most people don't care.
Make it six in a row for the Buckeyes.
I may not be HD, but the Sweater Vest STILL owns Michigan.
The last time Michigan actually won The Game, Eli Manning and Larry Fitzgerald were still in college!
I may not be HD, but the Sweater Vest STILL owns Michigan.
The last time Michigan actually won The Game, Eli Manning and Larry Fitzgerald were still in college!
as someone from the midwest, you should know GB vs Chi is bigger than OSU vs Michigan
It's not the greatest rivalry in sports. Today's game was just another reason why. Michigan is irrelevant and the game was a snoozner. When Carolina and dook or the Yankees and Red Sox get together both teams are good and the games are thrilling. This game was as meaningful and exciting as your average Indiana-Purdue game.
but thats because you're a fan of neither team. people that don't care about michigan or osu, don't care about this game
I think he's talking about College football and YES it IS one of the BIGGEST games in College football as far as RIVALRIES go.
As far as I'm concerned, Alabama and Auburn should be a snooze fest.
USC and UCLA hasn't been a BIG rivalry in some time now.
Not both teams can be good all the time.
OSU was never threatened in this game, the D* clearly won it for them.
Baseball doesn't count they play every other week.
Personally, I tired of seeing the Red Sox and yankees crammed down our throats every other week.
Of course well hear all about how GREAT the other rivalries in College football are in a few weeks .... more meaningless games.
FLA vs LSU I think has topped our old rivalry which was FLA vs FLA St. Now dont get me wrong I still will always think we had a bad season if we lose to FLA St. But FLA vs LSU always seems to have more at stake then FLA vs FLA St. (Not to Mention FLA St, has been down for several years so its been one of those "assured wins") Lets hope next weekend it remains one.
The analysts who say professional rivalries are gone are for the most part college analysyts. When speaking about professional rivalries they are either ignorant or have an agenda to sell the college rivalry on you. Ask the analyst of a professional sport, and they'll tell you professional rivalries are alive and well.
A main difference between professional rivalries and college rivalries is the fact that professional teams play each other in so often in games that matter most, the playoffs. That doesn't happen very often in college.
Has North Carolina EVER played Duke in the NCAA tournament? In a game where the winner went on and the loser went home? If they have, I don't remember it.
I wasn't even alive, or was just an infant, when the newbie Islanders upset the old-guard Rangers in the 1975 playoffs, the Rangers came back to upset the favored Islanders in the semifinals in 1979 to make it to the finals, and the Islanders knocked out the Rangers four years in a row in the early 80's, but through my family I can recount almost everything that happened in each series. That's how much it meant to the fans of the teams.
I know this year Auburn MAY be able to knock Alabama out of the national championship game if they beat them, but it means nothing for Auburn's national championship hopes.
The other rivalries games remaining this year mean nothing. Georgia Tech-Georgia, USC-UCLA, Stanford-Cal, etc., and Florida-Florida State is almost as bad as Florida-Florida Institutional, or whoever it was they played.
The 42-39 Ohio State-Michigan game a few years ago was the rare game where the winner moved on to play for a national championship and the loser was eliminated. That happens too rarely, and that's what NCAA rivalries are missing compared to professional rivalries.
And it almost never happens in basketball. Georgetown played St. John's and Villanova in the final four in 1985, but NCAA tournament games against rivalry teams are too few and far between.
Sandra
