The greatness that used to be America is now over.


/UT '82.

/Hook 'em

It's not porn saggies? I was almost interested for a second

I don't really follow football; why is it ending?

dramboxf: I don't really follow football; why is it ending?

Aggies are changing conferences and apparently scheduling cross-conference annual games is too hard to do when ND manages fine every year.

GAT_00: dramboxf: I don't really follow football; why is it ending?

Aggies are changing conferences and apparently scheduling cross-conference annual games is too hard to do when ND manages fine every year.

OMG, it's the Debil!

if David Ash farking starts again i'm going to punch myself in the d*ck.

And meanwhile, outside of Texas, not one fark was given that day.

GAT_00: dramboxf: I don't really follow football; why is it ending?

Aggies are changing conferences and apparently scheduling cross-conference annual games is too hard to do when ND manages fine every year.

Not to mention FSU-Florida, GT-UGA, Clemson-SC, formerly UVA-VT....I could go on and on here. Point being they're going full Pitt-Penn State on this rivalry for no reason other than UT's mad at ATM for leaving and ATM's mad at UT for AWing/hogging all the attention in Texas.

I dunno; I find this sad - in a sports kind of sad - in the sense that these are two really great academic institutions that won't be playing one of the top 10 rivalries in college football any more.

Yeah, I can agree with this. But it would appear not one college is willing to keep rivalry over chasing dollars. Not anyone in D1 anyway. Texas/A&M is just one of the rivalries destroyed this year, what about Nebraska / Oklahoma? or how about in the Pac (number) where UW never plays USC or UCLA any more. How about Syracuse and Pitt abandoning ancient rivalries in the East (in whatever conference its been over the years).

College athletics is just in a state of transition, and fan rivalries aren't in the equation, not when it matters.

JammerJim: I've a feeling that we'll be playing again in under 5 years. Deloss Dodds can't pout forever.

You mean after Texas comes begging the SEC to let them in after the Big 12 finally folds?

Generation_D: How about Syracuse and Pitt abandoning ancient rivalries in the East (in whatever conference its been over the years).

Former independent schools from the Northeast are bad examples. Let's say ten games constitutes a history with a team. Pitt has played 26 teams 10 times or more. Of those, nine are current or former Big East schools, one's Penn, and five are currently teams that are no longer in Division I, if at all. And of their top then, half are Big East teams, and two are sub-D1 teams. Syracuse is actually kinda worse. They've played 33 teams 10 times or more; 8 Big East, 9 FCS (5 of which are Ivys), 3 D-3s, 2 non-extant programs (BU and Niagara) and two - St. John's Military Academy and Syracuse AA - which aren't even colleges. And their top ten includes four Big East programs and three FCS schools. Hell, they've played their top two most often played rivals - Penn State and Colgate - three times in the past twenty years, and all three are in the last three years.

I truly do blame Penn State for the whole "dropping rivals once you go big time" thing. They stopped playing Pitt, Syracuse and WVU, their three longest-standing rivals, after joining the Big Ten. They'd have to play their current "trophy" game against MSU every year until 2043 before they even pass WVU, who's in third. Hell, other than Temple, they don't play anyone above MSU on their top rival list anymore on a regular basis, aside from the aforementioned home & home with Syracuse a few years back.

WhyteRaven74: The two conferences could agree to let them play each other for Thanksgiving, well they could could if conferences were run by people who actually gave a damn about sports.

I don't think the SEC has a problem with playing a non conference rival in the last week of the season. Ask UGA, South Carolina, and Florida.

wtf Tom Cruise???

nevermind, mindless movie tie-in.

What are the odds if an "SEC" chant if aTm wins?

Krymson Tyde: What are the odds if an "SEC" chant if aTm wins?



that would be...awesome, actually.

MiamiBlues: holy crap! a college kicker nailing a 51 yarder? damn!

I'm envious

finally a break for the Horns

Did he just quote Talladega Nights?