To all haters:

The last 3 OB Scores-
2011 Stanford 40 Va Tech 12-win margin 28
2012 WVU 70 Clemson 33-win margin 37
2013 FSU 31 NIU 10-win margin 21

Yet this OB will probably be the one talked about for years because it was such a 'blowoout'

+1

Heck, as I mentioned in another post, AQ contenders Purdue and UCLA lost by more and something tells me this isn't going to be the biggest BCS blowout this season.

You would think Florida could win by 50 tonight.
A NIU/Louisville matchup would have been nice to see.

(01-02-2013 10:44 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  To all haters:

The last 3 OB Scores-
2011 Stanford 40 Va Tech 12-win margin 28
2012 WVU 70 Clemson 33-win margin 37
2013 FSU 31 NIU 10-win margin 21

+1000

Thank-you for this wonderful post Boca!

(01-02-2013 10:44 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  To all haters:

The last 3 OB Scores-
2011 Stanford 40 Va Tech 12-win margin 28
2012 WVU 70 Clemson 33-win margin 37
2013 FSU 31 NIU 10-win margin 21

But we know that when it comes to outsiders in college football, The Narrative doesn't care for facts.

The stories, columns, and blogs might as well have been written in advance. They aren't "Cinderella story ends in gallant fight as FSU overpowers NIU," they're all basically Nelson Muntz pointing and laughing.

How dare we violate the caste system. How dare we qualify for their exclusive club.

(01-02-2013 12:44 PM)DogTracks Wrote:  

(01-02-2013 10:44 AM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  To all haters:

The last 3 OB Scores-
2011 Stanford 40 Va Tech 12-win margin 28
2012 WVU 70 Clemson 33-win margin 37
2013 FSU 31 NIU 10-win margin 21

But we know that when it comes to outsiders in college football, The Narrative doesn't care for facts.

The stories, columns, and blogs might as well have been written in advance. They aren't "Cinderella story ends in gallant fight as FSU overpowers NIU," they're all basically Nelson Muntz pointing and laughing.

How dare we violate the caste system. How dare we qualify for their exclusive club.

+1
their exclusive club is eroding. Hence the attacks.

If NIU wins, we'd see the "FSU didn't care" stuff, since they lost, it's the "they don't belong" stuff. There was no way to win in a lot of people's eyes. Just keep getting back there, we'll get one eventually.

I'll never apologize, and I don't expect NIU to.

Non-AQ teams have won half the BCS bowl games to which they were invited. That's funny. You could say the same thing about BCS teams.

(01-02-2013 01:16 PM)The Frisky Biscuit Wrote:  If NIU wins, we'd see the "FSU didn't care" stuff, since they lost, it's the "they don't belong" stuff. There was no way to win in a lot of people's eyes. Just keep getting back there, we'll get one eventually.

I'll never apologize, and I don't expect NIU to.

Exactly.