2024 College Football 🏈 Season starts tomorrow…. Yee Yee

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What is the deal with a fan base claiming their conference is the best? Odd to me. mtmuley

It’s carryover from the BCS days. Teams that didn’t belong would get selected because of prestige/traditin. Ohio state got steamrolled in a few of those games. The true national championships were the SEC conference championships. Lead to a lot of bickering about which conference is better, strength to schedule, who really belongs. All that kind of stuff. I like the playoffs.

 

[Treeshark]

What is the deal with a fan base claiming their conference is the best? Odd to me.

I guess I can’t articulate it either, which does indeed make it odd. I feel it though and root for the Big Ten- it makes it more fun.

Roots in regionalism, I suppose- which is out the window now with the new world order of college football. Rutgers and USC being in the same conference is still just crazy to me.

And here is a hot take… if you dig deep enough to the bottom of those regionalist roots you may see even remnants of the Civil War.

Discus.

 

[mtmuley]

I guess I can’t articulate it either, which does indeed make it odd. I feel it though and root for the Big Ten- it makes it more fun.

Roots in regionalism, I suppose- which is out the window now with the new world order of college football. Rutgers and USC being in the same conference is still just crazy to me.

Two teams from the NFC East are in the championship. I'm not really jacked about it. Kinda the same thing? mtmuley

 

[Treeshark]

I'm not really jacked about it. Kinda the same thing?

Logically, yeah- it’s the exact same.

In practice, for me anyway, it’s the exact opposite. While I easily root for another Big Ten team, I could never root for another NFC North team. I tried with the Lions, but Dan Campbell saved me from myself.

Total contradiction, I know.

 

[mtmuley]

Logically, yeah- it’s the exact same.

In practice, for me anyway, it’s the exact opposite. While I easily root for another Big Ten team, I could never root for another NFC North team. I tried with the Lions, but Dan Campbell saved me from myself.

Total contradiction, I know.

Yeah. I'm all over the AFC champion. mtmuley

 

[jimh406]

And here is a hot take… if you dig deep enough to the bottom of those regionalist roots you may see even remnants of the Civil War.

Nothing to do with it. Not all of the schools even existed during the Civil War and not all of the schools that were in the South are in the SEC. Most states have several schools that play football and usually only 1 or 2 that are SEC.

Fwiw, football is by far the biggest sport in the South. It's not even close. There aren't that many pro teams, so football fans pick their favorite college team to cheer for.

 

[Treeshark]

Nothing to do with it.

For many, I suspect you are right. For some, I feel it’s probably a factor- I’m not saying there is anything wrong with it.

Both the University of Mississippi and LSU mascots are related to the Civil War. As are the Wisconsin Badgers, oddly enough (albeit loosely).

 

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[Little Big Man MT Chris]

I think if oregon played in the SEC this past season they would of won the league.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

Oregon is a very good team, but I don't know if I would go that far

 

[INMT]

I feel like according to @jimh406 we could play EA Sports College Football to determine the national champion and he would still argue with the winner.

 

[jimh406]

 

[Treeshark]

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That’s crazy. I thought Day’s goose was cooked after the Michigan game. It was an amazing turnaround and stretch run.

It’s the craziest coaching comeback since Tony Bennett’s Vols won the natty the year after going down to a 16. Even still- he better beat Michigan next year or the OSU fans are going to want him canned.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

I think the long bye week hurt my duck in the rematch with the Bucknuts. Not saying they would have won , but less time off I think they would have played better , my youngest son txt me after the game and said all the teams that had the bye week were outscored 49-3 in the first qtr of the second round which showed a major advantage to the teams that played the week earlier , that the one thing I hope they tweak is less time off for who ever the top 4 is

 

[Treeshark]

my youngest son txt me after the game and said all the teams that had the bye week were outscored 49-3 in the first qtr of the second round

Agree with you and your son on this- if there is one thing I hope is changed with the playoff next year, it’s less of a break/or eliminating the byes altogether.

 

[jimh406]

Both the University of Mississippi and LSU mascots are related to the Civil War.

LSU mascot Mike the Tiger didn't appear until 1936. Ole Miss mascot is Land Shark since 2018. Neither are related to the Civil War.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

Agree with you and your son on this- if there is one thing I hope is changed with the playoff next year, it’s less of a break/or eliminating the byes altogether.

Yes sir , at the end of the day wether you got dog in the hunt or not we all want to see competitive compelling football as much as possible

 

[SwaggyD]

Tony Bennett’s Vols

Virginia.

 

[Treeshark]

LSU mascot Mike the Tiger didn't appear until 1936. Ole Miss mascot is Land Shark since 2018. Neither are related to the Civil War.

Perhaps I am mistaken here, but my understanding is that the LSU football team was known as the “Fighting Tigers” since the 1890s. (Not named after an actual tiger, but rather a Civil War infantry unit).

Source: LSU Athletics Website:

Fighting Tigers Origin

Ole Miss mascot prior to 2018 was “Colonel Reb.”

Missouri, Wisconsin, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Virgina and I’m guessing other team names apparently have Civil War roots. I just find the history of it fascinating, and I think maybe it explains a bit of the north/south rivalry that exists in college football- I’m not saying there is anything wrong with it whatsoever, in fact I think it is kind of cool.

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

And another thing, the SEC needs to give up that weak ass late season wink wink bye week I mean, game against weak sisters of the nobody and go to a nine game conference schedule. That’s been pissing me off since the BCS era for the last 20 plus years, they’ve always done it to give their best teams an advantage with a week of rest before the SEC championship game Down the homestretch and anybody that disagrees with that is full of crap

Just sayin