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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So....47% of Buckeye fans are retarded. Just from the sample here at HN I can validate that as true.
 
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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Up north people must not pay attention to football, that's all I can figure. The amount of B1G fans that claim A&M and Jexas don't have a rivalry was my AHA moment that they are either under the age of 18 or don't know football.
 
fordman84 said:
Up north people must not pay attention to football, that's all I can figure. The amount of B1G fans that claim A&M and Jexas don't have a rivalry was my AHA moment that they are either under the age of 18 or don't know football.
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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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fordman84 said:
So....47% of Buckeye fans are retarded. Just from the sample here at HN I can validate that as true.
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It's not a real poll. Internet polls with no controls are idiotic to try to use to prove a point.
 
fordman84 said:
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This wasn't me saying they don't have a rivalry. There are plenty of rivalries that I didn't list. IMO, A&M and Texas just has never drawn the national interest to challenge a rivalry like Ohio State/Michigan. You can disagree with me of course, but I can't remember I single time since the I started paying attention to college football in the 90s that there was a top ten match up Texas vs Texas A&M that I thought "I gotta watch this"
 
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fordman84 said:
So....47% of Buckeye fans are retarded. Just from the sample here at HN I can validate that as true.
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I, respectfully, disagree. They have a hatred for Michigan, the same way we have one for ohio state. There is a small percentage that are moronic, but most are actually cool.
 
MAIZEandBLUE09 said:
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Under the rules of 2006 he had a much better argument for this.

Also, this was him arguing as the Florida coach against scUM. A year you were most likely screaming for the rematch against Ohio State.

You want to argue that all 12 teams should be conference champions?
 
jjc2009 said:
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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From a national perspective, USC/ND just doesn't register like the other rivalries do. Just check out the TV ratings, that pretty much tells the story. OSU/michigan regularly is drawing well over 10m viewers (this year was 12.3m, down from 19.1m in 2023). Auburn/Alabama got around 11m this year. For whatever reason I can't find the exact TV ratings for USC/ND this year, but the 2023 game only drew 6.4m. That's even less than games like Ohio State/Penn State or Texas/Texas A&M. I'm not saying it isn't a rivalry, I'm just saying it's not a major rivalry like others.
 
fishinabarrel said:
This wasn't me saying they don't have a rivalry. There are plenty of rivalries that I didn't list. IMO, A&M and Texas just has never drawn the national interest to challenge a rivalry like Ohio State/Michigan. You can disagree with me of course, but I can't remember I single time since the I started paying attention to college football in the 90s that there was a top ten match up Texas vs Texas A&M that I thought "I gotta watch this"
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I think Texas/Oklahoma is a bigger rivalry. Sparty always tries to sneak in to say they are a rival of Michigan, so we call them an in-state rival to appease them. Maybe Texas A&M is Texas' "in-state rival".
 
fordman84 said:
Up north people must not pay attention to football, that's all I can figure. The amount of B1G fans that claim A&M and Jexas don't have a rivalry was my AHA moment that they are either under the age of 18 or don't know football.
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I mean each school literally trashes the other in their fight song or battle hymn or whatever they call it.
 
Across The Field said:
For whatever reason I can't find the exact TV ratings for USC/ND this year, but the 2023 game only drew 6.4m.
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CBS had the game this year and they’re bad about putting out their ratings. Last year it was an NBC night game and ND just blew it against Louisville so their playoff hopes had just died. They don’t play the game the same weekend every year becc because USC doesn’t want to come play in South Bend in November.
 
fishinabarrel said:
This wasn't me saying they don't have a rivalry. There are plenty of rivalries that I didn't list. IMO, A&M and Texas just has never drawn the national interest to challenge a rivalry like Ohio State/Michigan. You can disagree with me of course, but I can't remember I single time since the I started paying attention to college football in the 90s that there was a top ten match up Texas vs Texas A&M that I thought "I gotta watch this"
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That's the thing about the best rivalries, even if both teams aren't top 10 you still get a good game because a bad season can be saved by beating the rival.
 
Voltaire said:
I, respectfully, disagree. They have a hatred for Michigan, the same way we have one for ohio state. There is a small percentage that are moronic, but most are actually cool.
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Great, someone hacked Voltaires account.
 
fordman84 said:
That's the thing about the best rivalries, even if both teams aren't top 10 you still get a good game because a bad season can be saved by beating the rival.
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Yes but my comments were started in reply to @ericd7633 speaking of viewership levels and national interest as far as "best" rivalries are concerned, not the passion of the fan bases participating in said rivalry.
 
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