4 Days - 30 B1G Years - 2007
by Bama Hawkeye on Aug 28, 2011 3:03 PM CDT
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PrintIt's not Ohio State's fault. They weren't supposed to be contending for a national championship. They weren't even ranked in the Top 10 at the start of the season. Too many holes to fill. Too many pieces to replace. USC. LSU. West Virginia. Those were the big three coming into the season. Michigan and Wisconsin - those were the top teams in the Big Ten. Ohio State's only fault was being better than they should have been, while not quite good enough.
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It's not Ohio State's fault. Coming into the last weekend, they weren't even ranked in the Top 2. It was once-beaten Missouri and once-beaten West Virginia who were lined up to play for the crown. It's not Ohio State's fault that Missouri was doomed to face it's history-long tormentor, Oklahoma, in the Big 12 Championship Game. It's not Ohio State's fault that West Virginia saw Pat White broken in the first half of their Backyard Brawl with PItt. Nor is it Ohio State's fault that it would be an SEC team that would climb to Number 2.
But when it was all said and done, Ohio State lost its second straight BCS title game to an SEC team. The score was closer, but the loss no better. LSU would be a two-loss champion in an ugly season. To make matters worse for the Big Ten, Illinois went to the Rose Bowl in Ohio State's place. There, USC crushed them. The meme grew stronger.
And though it didn't impact the Big Ten race at all...
...this happened.
And let me tell you, that didn't help defeat the meme.
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How the fuck is that picture not a penalty? Dammit, where is Roger Goodell when you need him? James Harrison would have been murdered for that hit!
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"We are? Oh, goody. I'm so happy."
"Well, I hope you're happy for us, because it's just Carrie and me."
"I see. Once again I humiliate myself by assuming that I'm a member of this family."
-Arthur and Doug, bantering about the Heffernan's vacation plans
I remember that play and the screams for the flag that followed the jump off the chair.
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by Culp's Freaking Hill on Aug 28, 2011 6:54 PM CDT up reply actions
All big ten team fans should hate this year
Its the year the whole “big ten sucks” thing really took off
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by justsomehawkeyefan on Aug 28, 2011 3:31 PM CDT reply actions
My team went to the Rose Bowl.
I cannot hate this year.
"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"
I will never forget that drive against in the 4th quarter against OSU.
Juice absolutely beasted the OSU defense. What an amazing game.
Todd Kalas wants to murder that furry green shit
by Albertrayon on Jul 23, 2009 1:17 PM PDT reply actions 0 recs
3rd and 8, Juice with the QB draw for 12 and a 1st down!
/repeat.
"What do we have here?"
"We're going to Saint Croix."
"We are? Oh, goody. I'm so happy."
"Well, I hope you're happy for us, because it's just Carrie and me."
"I see. Once again I humiliate myself by assuming that I'm a member of this family."
-Arthur and Doug, bantering about the Heffernan's vacation plans
Went to the Rose Bowl
Because crooked Stephen Pamon fixed the Illinois Ohio State game.
Ever Grateful. Ever True.
by PurdueMatt on Aug 29, 2011 7:53 AM CDT up reply actions 2 recs
My team went to a bowl. Any bowl.
I also cannot hate this year. Even if it was the Insight Bowl, and even though we lost to Oklahoma State. And as an added plus, Sterling Sharpe called the game. That’s what I call a user name tie-in.
If you think IU football fans are long-suffering, you clearly haven't been tailgating with us lately.
by HoosierCheesehead on Aug 28, 2011 4:20 PM CDT up reply actions
2007 never happened
This whole story is a lie. College football didn’t play in 2007.
Sincerely
Nebraska fans
I retract my statement and replace it with this statement
All big ten teams who weren’t just happy to actually be in a bowl should hate this year. Illinois and Indiana fans are off the hook because…..well they are Illinois and Indiana
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by justsomehawkeyefan on Aug 28, 2011 6:16 PM CDT reply actions 3 recs
Sorry your team hasn't been to Pasadena in 20 years.
"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"
So then
the 2007 Illini were better than the 2001 Illini because they went to the Rose Bowl instead of the Sugar?
Put another way, Purdue’s 6-2 2000 squad that went to Pasadena is better than 7-1 2006 Michigan or 8-0 2002 Iowa?
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by Bama Hawkeye on Aug 29, 2011 9:17 AM CDT up reply actions
To pull the "Herp, derp. It's U of I in a bowl game! LULZ!" card is dumb.
There’s a big difference between being happy your team made it to a bowl game and being happy your team made it to the friggin’ Rose Bowl. Other than maybe Ohio State, no team in the conference would consider a trip to the Rose Bowl a season they should hate, regardless of the entire conference shitting the postseason bed.
"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"
Yes....
2000 Purdue > 2002 Iowa
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by PurdueMatt on Aug 29, 2011 11:53 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
I can't stand Michigan
and I cheered like a sumbitch for them. And I actually got a little choked up when they sang Hail to the Victors in the post game locker room for Lloyd. He’s a good man that took way too much shit for not winning enough for UM fans.
That was a helluva win for him to go out with. Michigan kicked Florida’s ass up and down that field.
This is like O. Henry and Alanis Morrisette had a baby and named it "this exact situation"--Sterling Archer
by Ted Glover on Aug 29, 2011 8:50 AM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
Same
I don’t cheer for Michigan often, but I really did in that game.
by witless chum on Aug 29, 2011 9:02 AM CDT up reply actions
I didn't cheer for UM
I rooted against Flowduh
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by SouthBayBuckeye on Aug 29, 2011 11:31 AM CDT up reply actions
I'll never forget driving back to Cbus from Cincy the next day...
The electronic DaNite sign on the west side of I-71 read “WAY TO GO BLUE… SORRY WOODY”
by TheHumbleBuckeye on Aug 29, 2011 12:53 PM CDT up reply actions
whoever made the sign say that
if getting haunted somethin fierce by WW Hayes.
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by SouthBayBuckeye on Aug 29, 2011 1:09 PM CDT up reply actions
I'll 2nd that
My dislike for that school up North doesn’t reach the magnitude that it reaches for any school located on the penis of the Continental US. I remember that game being the first time I had ever cheered for a Michigan team (had a soft spot for silver helmets in the past) ever.
by NotYourNormalHuskerfan on Aug 29, 2011 9:15 AM CDT up reply actions
Imagine how sweet that screen pass to Long would have been.
He was so open.
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by Alex Cook on Aug 29, 2011 1:33 PM CDT up reply actions 1 recs
God bless Beanie Wells for going beastmode in that game
Jim Tressel, why did you stop running the ball int he 2nd half???Or does my drunk memory only think we stopped handing off to Beanie for him to stiff arm people in to bolivia.
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by SouthBayBuckeye on Aug 28, 2011 9:40 PM CDT reply actions
Wait, I thought this didn't count...
…just like the 55-0. If TB takes it out of the media guide then it never happened.
Which reminds me...
…the University of Minnesota should have invested in whiteout when they hired TB.
wtf is this?
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by SouthBayBuckeye on Aug 29, 2011 1:11 PM CDT up reply actions
I'm guessing it's this.
http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/boxscores/2007-10-20-minnesota.html
"Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.'"
oh god...
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by SouthBayBuckeye on Aug 29, 2011 3:27 PM CDT up reply actions
You mean you don't recognize
THE North Dakota State University?
Fucking damnit. I sat by three old ladies from the greater Fargo area who did not know jack shit about football, but some fatass from their town of 103 people was a lineman for the Bison. The guy was flagged, was pulled off the field, missed blocks, still looked good against the Gophers, and I had to listen to those three talk about how great he was and how it was lovely to be in the Cities for a vacation and some football, then tell me “Well, your boys played a good game!” when time expired.
Fuck fuck fuck.
I honestly thought they were a CFL team based on those unis.
either that or they were remaking any given sunday.
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by SouthBayBuckeye on Aug 29, 2011 5:50 PM CDT up reply actions
sam adams octoberfest is available in stores...
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by SouthBayBuckeye on Aug 29, 2011 10:27 PM CDT up reply actions
it is the most delicious of the sam adamseseses
there’s some in my fridge right now actually.
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by SouthBayBuckeye on Aug 30, 2011 11:14 AM CDT up reply actions
First year....
….of Michigan State’s resurgence under Mark Dantonio. Went 7-6, but they capped the season with a great come from 17 points down win over Penn State to secure a bowl game berth. The game featured a late fake punt conversion and Brian Hoyer and Devin Thomas torching the PSU secondary.
Also got to see lots of Jehuu Caulcrick running over people in a power offense and setting the school record for TDs. Dantonio took the radical at the time step of actually making good use of his 250-pound tailback.
Wow
More reasons we fit in well with you guys. 2007 sucked for us too…
by NotYourNormalHuskerfan on Aug 29, 2011 9:00 AM CDT reply actions
Or peeing mediocrity down your back
Your call
This is like O. Henry and Alanis Morrisette had a baby and named it "this exact situation"--Sterling Archer
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