For the question about Bulldogs in Washington, there is Gonzaga, but they don't play football. Pretty good basketball team though.

The Ohio State University

shaftdiggity wrote: The Ohio State University That Gets Beat Down By The SEC All The Time

There fixed you post

My team is THE University Of Alabama....though i still dont see why THE is put before ever school as if there another one with a similar name that must be a ACC/Big 10 thing

Jinto wrote: shaftdiggity wrote: The Ohio State University That Gets Beat Down By The SEC All The Time There fixed you post My team is THE University Of Alabama....though i still dont see why THE is put before ever school as if there another one with a similar name that must be a ACC/Big 10 thing

You have to turn back the clock a few decades to get to the first Buckeye from The Ohio State University

The Buckeyes may choke in the championship game, but at least we get there (ie we beat the teams we should)

I always wondered, does "roll tide" refer to their rolls of fat? j/k

Mercutioh wrote: someday SEC fans. there will be a playoff. hopefully it's like the NCAA's where they choose a neutral field instead of a warm weather haven every time, and SOMEDAY you stay at home braggarts will have to venture out of the safe little confines of warm weather football, and realize why so many of our "athletes" who are "too slow" are playing on Sunday. The worst part of college football is the fact that there is no need for over half the teams to develop anything other than fastest team wins, B.S. St Louis Rams style football. Just once before I die, I want to see a SEC team come up north and play some one in the rain, or dare I dream, snow.

Tennessee's coming to Columbus in about 10 years! Too bad it's in September and therefore still pretty warm up here.

But I agree. The SEC is great and is probably either the best or 2nd best conference right now(Big 12 is there too). The Big Ten is a distant third. BUT, the top teams in any conference can compete with anyone. Put Ohio State in the SEC, they still win 9-10 games a year. Why? Because 1 the SEC teams would have to come to Columbus late in the year when it's cold and 2 we'd dip into the SEC's recruiting areas and get some speed of our own.

When you look at where most of the Big Ten's bowls are played, they are in domes or at the least in warm weather climates, and usually on turf. All of that leads to speed being at an advantage. Now, I'm not using this as an excuse, being a national title team doesn't get smoked the way we did. But if you put those games in cold weather outside, we at least hang in and possibly win.

Which brings me to my final point. Why do SEC fans ride on the success of every other team in their conference? Did you hear Ohio State fans brag because Michigan won the national title in 97? No. Then why are Alabama fans bragging about LSU? Why are Georgia fans bragging about Florida? It makes no sense to me. Sure, I occassionally root for Michigan when they play teams like USC or Miami, even Notre Dame. But when they lose I'm still happy. Seems like some SEC teams have an inferiority complex and therefore decide that the other 11 teams can help them out. I'm sorry, but when Vanderbilt fans brag to Big Ten fans, I draw the line(there's none here but I've seen it before).