My Alma Mater, the USC Trojans, just won a record third straight Rose Bowl.Now, let me offend folks in most other parts of this fine country. You see, we keep hearing the same "expert" garbage about college football: "The Pac-10 Conference is just USC beating nine weak teams."
- OK, the Pac-10 just finished going 5 - 0 in Bowl Games. Pac-10 teams beat BYU, Miami (FL), Oklahoma State, Pitt and Penn State.
- Meanwhile, certain states get an automatic place in the highest heavens of college football. You can open a school in certain states and they put you in the top-10 and a Bowl game before you even play. I swear, you could print up a letterhead for Florida North-Southern Correspondence Accounting Institute or Texas I-Before-E-Except-After-C and those teams would be on the cover of Sports Illustrated with breathless queries as to if they are the greatest teams in football history.
- This takes nothing away from the scary-good Oklahoma Sooners and the Florida Gators, who will meet in the Bowl Championship Series title game. (The way Florida's Tim Tebow wills his team to win is amazing). I will certainly respect the national title status of either great team.
- But you sports expert-wonk-dorks in the Mid-West and South can just shut up about the Pac-10. So, how you like me now?
P.S. Way to go Nebraska Cornhuskers! Bring back that great tradition. Congratulations on your Gator Bowl win over Clemson.
2 comments:
Congratulations! I wish Penn State had won, but couldn't help admiring the skill with which the Trojans passed and received the ball.
Dave
And let's give props to Utah! Another team that will be hosed in the polls for not being from an anointed State.
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