Well, my school didn't have much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving- Colorado State lost to Wyoming. Close game, but still...CSU is now 3-9. OUCH. 
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\Now, West Virginia, on the other hand ... they should be reclaimed by their Infernal Master in an explosion of fire and brimstone.]Dorian Thompson said:And I'm not a dude.
Well, this is one WVU alum whose going to wait to be reclaimed by his "Infernal Master in an explosion of fire and brimstone" until after this Saturday, when I watch us kick your sorry behinds for the 15th straight year. But this time maybe we'll be merciful and won't run up 80 points on you this year.
I am going to miss Bobby Bowden , who will retire after the bowl game. An incredible run of 14 years finishing ion the top 4, a few national titles, teams that defined athletic excellence.... wow. Sadly, it's offset by some scandals (Nordstroms, shoes, Janikowski, etc) and the past few years have been subpar for FSU. But he was a personality that will be hard to replace. A good man and a great coach.
I don't doubt WVU might well win big. Satan is Prince of this World, after all.
Seriously ... I don't talk smack when it comes to Rutgers and West Virginia. I'd only look like a complete imbecile, considering the history.
[Oh, and ... it's just the football team I despise, not the university, its alums or anything else, for that matter ... and it's just football hate, which has no place in the real world. I even root for Mountaineers basketball. Love their style of play. Hell, whenever WVU kicks the shit out of some insufferable jackasses like UGA in a bowl game, I giggle my ass off, because they're representing the Big East. But Saturday ... die with festering boils.
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We have unfortunately been stomped on by Texas with regularity, but I'm hoping Pellini can pull this one off.
Sorry I got my back hairs up. I do that whenever my alma matter (of which I'm very proud) gets badmouthed. WVU was an awesome school and one of the best decisions I ever made in my life was to attend there.
I actually have a lot of respect for Rutgers and what they've accomplished in the last few years. I usually root for the Scarlet Knights, when they're not playing the Mountaineers.
And lest we forget, the school won the first college football game in history (never mind that the game they were playing was really soccer at that point.)
And if your Scarlet Knights defeat my Mountaineers this Saturday, I will be the first to tip my hat to you, sir.
I actually have a lot of respect for Rutgers and what they've accomplished in the last few years. I usually root for the Scarlet Knights, when they're not playing the Mountaineers.
And lest we forget, the school won the first college football game in history (never mind that the game they were playing was really soccer at that point.)
And if your Scarlet Knights defeat my Mountaineers this Saturday, I will be the first to tip my hat to you, sir.
A mere technicality.
According to Parke-Davis, Rutgers won the national championship that year—which gives the Knights one more than WVU.
Precisely.
I'm not a Rutgers alum, actually. I went to the best football school of the millennium, Carroll College in Helena, Montana—winners of four NAIA Division I national championships this decade.
I did, however, grow up in South Brunswick and South Plainfield—towns which border New Brunswick, home of the main campus, and Piscataway, where the Knights play most of their home games.
This is actually not the first era of solid Rutgers football. They finished 11-0-0 in 1976, but were robbed of the attention they deserved because Pitt went 12-0-0 and won the national championship that year. Can't win for losing.
And when they were invited only to the Independence Bowl despite that superlative season, the team voted to reject the bid—rightly so, in my opinion.
I remember watching as my beloved RU fought its heart out against Bear Bryant and #1 'Bama at Giants Stadium back in, I think, '80, only to lose 17-13 in the final minutes when the boys just ran outta gas. Bryant himself said, "We won, but we didn't beat Rutgers."
Of course, when they went down to play #17 Tennessee a year or two later, the placards read, "What's a Rutgers?" "Where's Rutgers?"
News flash: It's in New Jersey, you backwards-ass shitkickers.
Final score of that game, by the way: RU 13, UT 7
Pardon my imprecision. I've been error-prone of late.
Carroll's won five this decade, and Mount Union's in 2000 occurred in the last millennium, and so is not applicable here. That's a push ... but we've had five in the last seven years (year eight being contested now), and they've only had four.
The Fighting Saints have also advanced to this year's national semifinals.
Please don't think I'm bad mouthing Mount Union. They're awesome.
Carroll's won five this decade, and Mount Union's in 2000 occurred in the last millennium, and so is not applicable here. That's a push ... but we've had five in the last seven years (year eight being contested now), and they've only had four.
The Fighting Saints have also advanced to this year's national semifinals.
Please don't think I'm bad mouthing Mount Union. They're awesome.
It all depends on your reference point of where year 2000 belongs, doesn't it?
Then again even tossing that one out it's still a tie, at least numerically, for the decade. I know Mount Union is still in it for Div III. So it's liable to still be tied after this year. Which would leave it at 11 titles for MU vs 6 for CC, overall.
It'd be interesting to see them play each other, given all of that purple coloring.
Then again even tossing that one out it's still a tie, at least numerically, for the decade. I know Mount Union is still in it for Div III. So it's liable to still be tied after this year. Which would leave it at 11 titles for MU vs 6 for CC, overall.
It'd be interesting to see them play each other, given all of that purple coloring.
Yes ... and the correct one has it eliminated.
I would imagine Mount Union would win most such encounters. NCAA Division III schools tend to be larger than NAIA Division I schools.
I was under the impression that Rutgers had been snubbed by the bowls in '76, I didn't realize they had turned down their only bid. They were probably right to snub their bowl selection.
I think that cements New Mexico in 1982 as the greatest bowl snub of all time. How do you justify not awarding a bowl to a 10-1 team and then awarding the national championship two years later to a team from the same conference (Brigham Young)?
I think that cements New Mexico in 1982 as the greatest bowl snub of all time. How do you justify not awarding a bowl to a 10-1 team and then awarding the national championship two years later to a team from the same conference (Brigham Young)?
Heh...what about Auburn in the '04 season? That was a pretty bad snub, too, IMHO.
I'll try to confirm that I'm correct on that. I'm virtually certain, but ... the memory is the first thing to go.
[Edit: Indeed, they did turn down an Independence Bowl bid against an unranked McNeese State.]
Well, they received a major bowl bid, just not the national championship game, so that doesn't really constitute a snub in my book. I think Tigers/War Eagles fans should be glad they can preserve their illusions: UA, in my opinion, would have experienced an epic beatdown at the hands of USC, just as Oklahoma did.
Frankly, I think Urban Meyer's undefeated Utah team that year might well have beaten the Tigers, too, had they met. Meyer, I believe, insists to this day that squad had the best offensive line he's ever coached.
Which in turn contributed greatly to the creation of the short-lived Garden State Bowl, one of the stupidest decisions ever made by the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority (IMO). Did they really expect people to travel to NJ in December to watch a second tier bowl game?This is actually not the first era of solid Rutgers football. They finished 11-0-0 in 1976, but were robbed of the attention they deserved because Pitt went 12-0-0 and won the national championship that year. Can't win for losing.
And when they were invited only to the Independence Bowl despite that superlative season, the team voted to reject the bid—rightly so, in my opinion.
I am definitely staying up to watch the first half, and hopefully more. Since it doesn't start until 9:00 EST and I have to get up for work at 6:00am the next morning.....
Still, I'm interested in seeing who the Buckeyes will be going up against. Plus, it's a compelling matchup all by itself just by the quality of teams and their loving relationship with each other.
