College Football 2009

[OumaFan]

That is a great post. World Class.

Florida's pretty great though, unfortunately. Far from unbeatable though, nobody is really.

[VictorCharlie]

Guess you aren't a fan of the Big12. My Aggies will be lucky to get 6-7 wins this year but I will be closely watching my Dad's alma mater, Okie State, to see if they can get over the hump this year. I don't think anyone comes out of the B12 w/o a loss this year. USC doesn't have to many challenges and I wouldn't be suprised if they found their way into the NC game. Florida is always a good bet. Their game with Ole Miss this year ought to be awesome. I could also see Penn State running the table in a weak B10. Can't rule out a Non BCS team finally crashing the party either. Can't wait till the season starts.

[amat]

You can call Texas and Oklahoma garbage but the Big 12 is the conference to watch this year and while no conference might ever be tougher top to bottom like the SEC has been the past few years, the intrigue factor with the Big 12 is at an all time high with the two GREAT QBs and OK state returning Dez Bryant who is worth watching just him alone.

Oregon is good this year though, I always root for them because the possibility always remains open that I might be an Oregon Duck one day they are definitely on the list of colleges I'd like to attend someday. Of course with my grades this semester if I continue to build on my momentum maybe I can go to to Cal one day

[OumaFan]

I don't really think they're garbage, I just think the conference as a whole gets a bit overrated cause there aren't many teams at all that play defense and everybody loves a track meet. OU and Texas aren't bad defensively.

Oklahoma State is awful defensively unless they've made some big improvements over last year. They've just got to outscore people and they probably will do that to most people but you can't (and I literally mean can't, there's no gray area IMO) win the National Championship with a defense like they had last year. They'll probably win 10 or 11 games anyway cause their offense is so good.

[OumaFan]

I thought about posting this in the what are you listening to now thread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_q4fO7DsIc

One of our talented young guys got arrested for a domestic disturbance. Turned out not to be that much, his girlfriend got arrested too, he didn't hit her or anything, just pushed her when she slapped him all that, charges dropepd, but before all this came out, like the next morning her dad came out in the press and said she probably caused it, FAN OF THE YEAR.

[VictorCharlie]

Thats awesome. Alabama has the luxury of being the best show in state. Auburn pulls some fans but my experience is that a huge majority of the state is a Tide fan. A&M has to play second fiddle to texas in this state. Even in the late 80s and early 90s when we beat their ass 10 out of 11 years the media was always looking to find us cheating. Texas constantly gets a pass when the athletic department or players screw up. If Sherman can get 6-7 wins this year and a bowl to keep his recruiting momentum going we should be back to competing with them again in the next couple years. If we tank this year though it could get ugly.

[OumaFan]

Alabama will always be the bigger name but I really don't think there's a huge difference in amount of fans, its probably 55-45 in Bama's favor, something like that. Alabama probably pulls more casual fans. It also depends on where you are, there are parts of the state that are more pro-Auburn and vice versa. I don't know how it is in Texas, I assume it goes Texas-Texas A&M-Texas Tech-TCU-Baylor-Houston, something like that?

I was a bit surprised by Franchione's lack of success at Texas A&M. Alabama fans were mad at him for how he handled the whole thing (IMO worse than anything Saban did but Saban's a dick to the media and this in the end is the most important thing) but at the same time we were mad it was kind of cause we all thought he was a good coach.