That's pathetic

I find that number hard to believe. I highly doubt 5% of MU fans were ever cheering on KU in those National Title basketball games.

Probably a bit high, but SEC fans are so incestuous, it's disgusting

Agreed. At one point I heard the announcers say that Bama had given up 10 sacks all year, and gave up 7 last night. That's just ****ing absurd.

But the thing that stood out to me was half of OUs line was out. They had a dude that had NEVER PLAYED TACKLE before playing right tackle, and Knight didn't get his soul raped. Bama's defense vs 3 starters out? That's the shit nightmares are made of. It should have never been a game. OU should have had to forfiet before the end of the first quarter because everybody OU had that could take a snap had died.

Interestingly enough, OU has the 40th ranked team in PPG. And they put up 45 against what everybody thought was a national title team with a kick ass defense. In fact, the only other teams they put up 45 or more on were the powerhouses of Tulsa and Iowa State.

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This game is a total mindboogling mystery to me.

wtf? I now understand why people have laughed at the SEC for the past 100 year but give me a break.

We get it that the South cares about college sports about 1000x times more than anyone else in the country but isn't there anything else to do down there?

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No, there's really not. That's why I'm planning on getting my degree and heading back north, or anywhere that's not the deep south. I love sports just as much, if not more than the next guy, but down there it's ****ing nuts. I was so pumped to go down there after they won the first national championship just a month after I accepted my scholarship to go there. And then the second title, the first while I was there, was pretty awesome. But after almost 4 years of being there, I'm completely burnt out and pretty turned off of NCAAF at this point, although I have to admit I'm part of a very small minority. Just the way the people handle it down there is so offputting and annoying it's completely ruined it for me. I really do think its because they have nothing else to do, no pro teams, etc.

Striker is a very atypical pass rusher though. He's basically a safety that blitzes every down.

Bama shoulda gave it to Derrick Henry on every play. Jacksonville boy was a man among boys in HS. Looked damn good last night.

I don't know that we would have beaten them, but I definitely believe that we would have had a much better chance than we did of beating Auburn.

Any Bama fan who roots for Auburn is a pussy. Take your disappointment like a man instead of hopping on your rival's bandwagon.

Now this is something every non-OU fan, no matter their conference affiliation, can agree on.

It's a simple concept. As a Florida fan, other SEC teams performing well in bowl games and winning championships is in the best interest of Florida. A strong conference gets the best recruits and the benefit of the doubt come bowl season. There's a reason a 1-loss SEC team always gets the nod over 1-loss teams from other conferences (see Auburn in the BCSCG instead of ohio state, Michigan State, Baylor or Alabama over Oregon & K-State last year or Alabama over Oklahoma State & Stanford in 2011).

Unlike other conferences, in the SEC you know that if you win the conference you're going to play for the national title.

No one's hopping on any bandwagons here. The thing I'm pretty sure everyone has failed to mention is that the teams in the conference share revenues from bowl wins and the cash flows generated, so its in our best interest to cheer for our fellow conference teams and further promote the SEC; essentially the rich getting richer.

This. I think this logic probably only applies to football with the way the current system is set up. With the SEC maintaining its dominance, you're assuring yourself the benefit of the doubt when being compared to teams from other conferences, and in a sport where one loss can end your season in many years, having that leg up means everything and maintaining that advantage is key, even if it means pulling for a rival school once in awhile. I don't think the 4 team playoff is going to have a huge impact on this, but if say they ever went to a 16 team playoff, I think some of this might fade away, but who knows with how deep that SEC pride runs right now.