What would you, as a fan, prefer?

What would you, as a fan, prefer?

  • Win the CFP Championship game but lose in season play to your arch rival

    Votes: 45 84.9%

  • Beat our arch rival and win a subtard bowl game

    Votes: 3 5.7%

  • Go undefeated and win our conference championship, but lose in the CFP. It just wasn't fair.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Watch fat chics wrestle in a pit of POTATO SALAD

    Votes: 5 9.4%
  • Total voters
    53
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
I get that they call themselves rivals. Michigan and Michigan state are rivals. When I said they’re not “real” rivals I’m illustrating that there’s a magnitude of difference between other rivals and Michigan Ohio state. Which is why other fans simply don’t understand my opinion and why a majority of Ohio state fans had the same opinion before the season…until they lost and had no choice but to get behind the other option. My opinion didn’t spark out of thin air.View attachment 130826
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How is Alabama and Auburn not a rivalry?? I'm not going to argue Mich/OSU is bigger but to say a magnitude of difference is laughable.

Like do you really believe there is only 1 rivalry in college football?
 
ralphiewvu said:
How is Alabama and Auburn not a rivalry?? I'm not going to argue Mich/OSU is bigger but to say a magnitude of difference is laughable.

Like do you really believe there is only 1 rivalry in college football?
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I didn’t say that. It’s a rivalry in the same way Michigan Michigan state is a rivalry.

Yes. There’s the best rivalry in SPORTS and then everyone else. Nothing compares.
 
fishinabarrel said:
Since you have posted this "poll" multiple
times I decided to look into it. While it gives you the percentages after you vote it does not give you any info on number of votes. Simple math takes care of that. I voted. My one vote moved the poll over a tenth of a percent. That means that less than 1000 people actually voted in that poll. Also, allows repeat votes. So a determined group of like 10 people could change the outcome of that poll in about 20 minutes.

Basically, your online poll from a newspaper isn't that good
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That’s a lot of people. It shows that of say 900 Ohio state fans, more than half disagreed with you. St best you could argue the sentiment is pretty evenly split among the fan base. I think it more than validates my opinion.

I also doubt people repeatedly answered this poll. This wasn’t something of great value prior to the season. Sure. You could do that now but the general sense of the opinion has already been captured.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
I didn’t say that. It’s a rivalry in the same way Michigan Michigan state is a rivalry.

Yes. There’s the best rivalry in SPORTS and then everyone else. Nothing compares.
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It's cyclical and it really depends on how good Auburn/Michigan are. At the beginning of the 2010's, Bama/Auburn was the better rivalry since more was at stake. Credit to Michigan for stepping up. Prior to 2015, it was just another game as far as viewership (minus the 2006 game). Between 2009 and 2017 (9 seasons) Bama/Auburn outdrew OSU/Michigan in 6 of them. And in that timeframe Bama/Auburn had more collective viewers. Auburn has been terrible since 2019 and because of that it doesn't feel as big.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
I didn’t say that. It’s a rivalry in the same way Michigan Michigan state is a rivalry.

Yes. There’s the best rivalry in SPORTS and then everyone else. Nothing compares.
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This is what you said:
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
Bama doesn’t have a real rival. Try again.
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Try all the mental gymnastics you want. You calling Michigan and Ohio state a “Real” rivalry while you say the iron bowl isn’t is grade A retarded. As someone here already has mentioned a man went to jail for literally killing the other universities property.

What to you signifies only OSU/UM is the real rivalry? Besides being a gigantic homer
 
still on the new years diet. give me the salad
 
ericd7633 said:
It's cyclical and it really depends on how good Auburn/Michigan are. At the beginning of the 2010's, Bama/Auburn was the better rivalry since more was at stake. Credit to Michigan for stepping up. Prior to 2015, it was just another game as far as viewership (minus the 2006 game). Between 2009 and 2017 (9 seasons) Bama/Auburn outdrew OSU/Michigan in 6 of them. And in that timeframe Bama/Auburn had more collective viewers. Auburn has been terrible since 2019 and because of that it doesn't feel as big.
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You have three rivalries that have the ability to challenge The Game, IMO. Oklahoma/Texas, USC/Notre Dame, and Alabama/Auburn. If those three have both teams at the top of their game for a few years, they absolutely can challenge Ohio State/Michigan

Others I'd be willing to listen to an argument for, Washington/Oregon, or any of the three big Florida schools
 
fishinabarrel said:
You have three rivalries that have the ability to challenge The Game, IMO. Oklahoma/Texas, USC/Notre Dame, and Alabama/Auburn. If those three have both teams at the top of their game for a few years, they absolutely can challenge Ohio State/Michigan

Others I'd be willing to listen to an argument for, Washington/Oregon, or any of the three big Florida schools
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Yeah, I'd say 90's UF/FSU would be right there, but that hasn't been a truly significant game in 20+ years.

If Michigan goes back to being irrelevant (2008-2014 as an example) the rivalry is going to be diminished. Same with ND/USC. If USC can get their shit together that'll certainly help. For sure OSU/Michigan has been the best the last 5/6 years, but prior to that it was Auburn/Bama.
 
olympicoscar said:
This is a forum to express and exchange ideas. If that ruined someone, it's not my fault.
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high quality GIF
 
fishinabarrel said:
You have three rivalries that have the ability to challenge The Game, IMO. Oklahoma/Texas, USC/Notre Dame, and Alabama/Auburn. If those three have both teams at the top of their game for a few years, they absolutely can challenge Ohio State/Michigan

Others I'd be willing to listen to an argument for, Washington/Oregon, or any of the three big Florida schools
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The Florida schools are too wildly inconsistent in the current time. 90s & early 2000s for sure but now, nah.
 
ericd7633 said:
Yeah, sign me up for a USC loss every season if it meant winning 4 straight games in the CFP. Hell, I'd even throw Navy into the equation too. Anyone to argue otherwise is a dumbass.
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Right? Shit...I'll take losses to you guys and UCLA every year if it means winning the NC.
 
fishinabarrel said:
You have three rivalries that have the ability to challenge The Game, IMO. Oklahoma/Texas, USC/Notre Dame, and Alabama/Auburn. If those three have both teams at the top of their game for a few years, they absolutely can challenge Ohio State/Michigan

Others I'd be willing to listen to an argument for, Washington/Oregon, or any of the three big Florida schools
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No disrespect to either program, but USC/Notre Dame hasn't even been in the same stratosphere as OSU/michigan in decades. Oklahoma/UT and Auburn/Bama for sure, and I'd even throw in UGA/Florida, but ND/USC hasn't been relevant in ages. It's difficult having a "rivalry" game across the country with someone who already has a rivalry with a team in their city.
 
Across The Field said:
No disrespect to either program, but USC/Notre Dame hasn't even been in the same stratosphere as OSU/michigan in decades. Oklahoma/UT and Auburn/Bama for sure, and I'd even throw in UGA/Florida, but ND/USC hasn't been relevant in ages. It's difficult having a "rivalry" game across the country with someone who already has a rivalry with a team in their city.
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No, it hasn't been. Not since Carroll and the "Bush push" era, but I think it could reignite quickly if those two teams had success at the same time for just a season or two.
 
Across The Field said:
No disrespect to either program, but USC/Notre Dame hasn't even been in the same stratosphere as OSU/michigan in decades. Oklahoma/UT and Auburn/Bama for sure, and I'd even throw in UGA/Florida, but ND/USC hasn't been relevant in ages. It's difficult having a "rivalry" game across the country with someone who already has a rivalry with a team in their city.
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Curious by what measurement you’re making this statement. For a rivalry to be truly meaningful the game has to have conference or national championship implications for BOTH schools. Just playing spoiler to the other team because of the raw hate isn’t good enough. And looking at all of these including “The Game” that’s been the case for a while. Auburn only really gets to spoil Bama’s season, in the few years ND made the playoffs or BCS championship USC was only there to try and spoil it. In the 2000’s the best ND could do is try and upset USC. UGA/Fla hasn’t mattered in a long time either. Arguably last year The Game meets this criteria but when’s the last time before that it decided the conference or national championship for both schools?
 
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