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The Answer is, In a bizarre year (1994), Texas A&M was not eligible for the Southwest championship. After running through the conference, with only a tie against SMU (the ponies only non-confernece loss), there were 5 teams ties for second at 4-3. Since A&M was not eligible, but beat all 5 t...

billybud wrote:Hope he is alright! I sometimes ride without my helmet (I know how stupid that is!).

I only put the helmet on at night (because of the bugs). I never had an accident, but if I had, I wouldn't be here now.

Boston College and VT were tied in the standings but VT had the head to head win...the BE held a conference call, without the AD's of BC or VT present, and assigned the Motor City Bowl ($750,000 and a MAC opponent) to BC and the San Francisco Bowl ($800,000) to VT. It's always been my understanding...

The only reason Ohio State schedules the in state schools is to help funnel cash to their programs. They all get their money out of the same pot. By helping the others they help themselves. Ohio State schedules one in state program a year. It will never help Ohio State as much as it helps the other ...

mountainman wrote:
And for goodness sakes, don't ruin the bobby-q by dumping sauce all over it ..... salt, pepper, a little cyanine pepper and vinegar only, slow roasted for around 12 hours over a hickory and oak fire, please. Pulled, not chopped.

Amen.

True, Spence and I get the point about the finances of the whole thing. I'm trust trying to look at it from the Toledo perspective...how much more advantagous is it for Toledo to play OSU in Cleveland than it is in Columbus? Cleveland is even enemy territory for Toledo in the MAC. I guess it seems ...

mountainman wrote:Yes, Coach Rodriguez made those remarks. And was then told that his job was to coach football and it was in his best interest to stay out of conference politics. There's a bunch of people in the Big East that feel that way though.

I cheered Rodriguez for making those remarks

I knew it was legal, it wouldn't have happened if it wasn't.

It's absolutely dirty, I agree. I'm not defending the ACC here, they kind of lobbed a grenade at the Big East having secret negotiations and such. However, if the NCAA ever starts messing with the revenue of the major conferences, you are going to find that the power conference are not going to put...

Did you play primarily west of the Mississippi river?

My point wasn't to start the argument back up, my point that I knew the coaches poll was published because I had used it in that argument.

Exactly

No, you need to look for a year where a conference had lots of co-champs.

I have always believed that the coaches poll represents to great a conflict of interest to over come. Not that the AP doesn't have its problems, but at least they don't have a financial stake in who wins. As long as the games keep getting played, they make money.

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