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Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
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RE: Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
Agree on those two. Beyond that I really don't see it. PSU, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Nebraska already got beat. Wisconsin looks to be the #3 team in the conference. The rest is pretty boring.
There are only 2 teams left with a realistic shot at getting in the playoff already after 2 weeks. That didn't' take long.
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09-14-2015 03:06 PM |
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RE: Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
OSU is going to nasty under Urban, no doubt. But SEC had LSU, Florida, Alabama, Auburn all winning titles during dominance era....
I don't see 4 BIG programs stepping up like that. Interested in seeing what Michigan does the next couple of years.
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RE: Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
(09-14-2015 03:09 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: OSU is going to nasty under Urban, no doubt. But SEC had LSU, Florida, Alabama, Auburn all winning titles during dominance era....
I don't see 4 BIG programs stepping up like that. Interested in seeing what Michigan does the next couple of years.
yep and even a foil like Georgia who got oh so close- but never could conquer the mountain.
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RE: Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
(09-14-2015 03:09 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote: OSU is going to nasty under Urban, no doubt. But SEC had LSU, Florida, Alabama, Auburn all winning titles during dominance era....
I don't see 4 BIG programs stepping up like that. Interested in seeing what Michigan does the next couple of years.
Yeah wouldn't exactly call it the SEC West BCS era, but Sparty and Bucky definitely will make it interesting in the B1G East, maybe if Harbaugh can make Michigan competitive again and Penn State returns to form of former glory then we can have this discussion but not just yet. Minnesota and Northwestern are showing promise for the west, Nebraska and Wisconsin just need to win their big games OOC and we'd be good conference wise but alas they are not so we are not nearly as dominant as the SEC West + Georgia and Florida in the BCS era.
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09-14-2015 03:26 PM |
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RE: Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
The B1G seems to be quite top-heavy right now. After OSU and MState, there seems to be a steep drop-off.
(09-14-2015 02:57 PM)Nebraskafan Wrote: http://espn.go.com/college-football/stor...ec-bcs-era
Some nice press.
Can't argue against Michigan State and Ohio State that is for sure.
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09-14-2015 03:46 PM |
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RE: Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
"Conference perception has always been huge," outgoing SEC commissioner Mike Slive explained to me over the winter. "But now the impact of that perception is tangible. It isn't a computer. It's a group of people sitting in a room who have watched the games and know what kind of a gauntlet a team endured throughout a season. The impressions made in the biggest of those games can't be measured."
Thought this was a pretty interesting comment.
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RE: Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
(09-14-2015 03:52 PM)bullet Wrote: "Conference perception has always been huge," outgoing SEC commissioner Mike Slive explained to me over the winter. "But now the impact of that perception is tangible. It isn't a computer. It's a group of people sitting in a room who have watched the games and know what kind of a gauntlet a team endured throughout a season. The impressions made in the biggest of those games can't be measured."
Thought this was a pretty interesting comment.
What's so interesting about it?
He using different words, but he's saying the same thing everyone who's ever talked about a college football playoff has always stated. SOS is going to be a big part of the selection process, and the big games are the ones that give you the SOS needed to get in. It's the nature of the beast.
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RE: Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
(09-14-2015 03:46 PM)quo vadis Wrote: The B1G seems to be quite top-heavy right now. After OSU and MState, there seems to be a steep drop-off.
If I was going to compare it to a conference of the past, it would be the 1970-1985 Big 8, where Nebraska and Oklahoma were well ahead of the rest of the pack, and could almost always count on the entire regular season boiling down to their game against each other with the winner often getting a chance to play for the final #1 ranking in their bowl game.
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RE: Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
With just 2 teams? Not even close...
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RE: Flipping the Field: OSU and MI State has B1G looking like dominant SEC of BCS era
(09-14-2015 04:30 PM)Wedge Wrote: (09-14-2015 03:46 PM)quo vadis Wrote: The B1G seems to be quite top-heavy right now. After OSU and MState, there seems to be a steep drop-off.
If I was going to compare it to a conference of the past, it would be the 1970-1985 Big 8, where Nebraska and Oklahoma were well ahead of the rest of the pack, and could almost always count on the entire regular season boiling down to their game against each other with the winner often getting a chance to play for the final #1 ranking in their bowl game.
Or the 70s-90s Big 10. 70s is was Michigan-Ohio St. 80s was Michigan-Iowa.
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