talked to an Alabama alum today

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He' s a friend of mine and played on their '92 NC team. I just called to see if he was going down. He said Tuscaloosa is NUTS right now and thousands of people got down there on wednesday. He has never seen anything like it. I don't see him making it until gametime.
 
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I was there last year on the Saturday of the Auburn/Alabama game. I wonder how it compares.
 
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I remember when Knoxville used to be like that. The RVs and the Vol Navy would start pulling into campus on Wednesdays for big games
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I just hope LSU beats the dog sh*t out of them. 100 to 0 would be fine!
 
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The best thing is that at the end of the night one team will walk out of that stadium very dissapointed. Doesnt matter to me which one. Wish we still had ties
 
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pl3 said:
This is the most hyped regular season college football game in history.
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Only because the hype machine is bigger than it used to be.

I agree that it is huge. Immensely huge. Hard to put words to it. (and I pick Bama by 4)

But 1966 (#1)ND -v- (#2)Mich State, if there was an ESPN, and internet, and sports talk radio, etc. would have outdone this. At the time teams were allowed only ONE Nationally Televised game each year.

1) ND is everywhere
2) MSU was the Defending Nat. Champ.
3) 4 of the first 8 players drafted in the spring were from MSU (ND had 3 first rounders)
4) ND had 8 first team All Americans, MSU had 6
5) 25 of the 44 Starters were recognized on some sort of All American team (1st, 2nd, etc)
(all info from wikipedia)

ESPN would have went NUTS for this game.

The original "game of the century"
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Hype was significantly bigger for Ohio State-Michigan in 2006.
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I disagree. I don't recall this much pregame hype. On tv all the time. Radio, message boards. I surely don't remember this much before and todays hype machine has capabilities that 2006 didn't have.
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pl3 said:
I disagree. I don't recall this much pregame hype. On tv all the time. Radio, message boards. I surely don't remember this much before and todays hype machine has capabilities that 2006 didn't have.
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It was all anybody talked about for the whole second half of the 2006 season. There was a huge wave of support for the idea that the title game should just be a rematch. The media's traditional obsession with the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry pushed it to a whole different level. It's like if you took this weekend's game, made Alabama play undefeated and hated rival Auburn instead of LSU, moved it to the last game of the year, and ditched the conference championship game.

No doubt that there's more message board and Twitter and that kind of crap adding to the hype this time than there were five years ago, but from the standpoint of "How foaming at the mouth were the national talking heads and columnists five years ago compared to now?", I don't think it's that close.

Being in the south skews it too. I'm way more interested in this game than I was that one, but that's because it's two SEC teams. The country as a whole is more interested in Ohio State-Michigan.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
It was all anybody talked about for the whole second half of the 2006 season. There was a huge wave of support for the idea that the title game should just be a rematch. The media's traditional obsession with the Ohio State-Michigan rivalry pushed it to a whole different level. It's like if you took this weekend's game, made Alabama play undefeated and hated rival Auburn instead of LSU, moved it to the last game of the year, and ditched the conference championship game.

No doubt that there's more message board and Twitter and that kind of crap adding to the hype this time than there were five years ago, but from the standpoint of "How foaming at the mouth were the national talking heads and columnists five years ago compared to now?", I don't think it's that close.

Being in the south skews it too. I'm way more interested in this game than I was that one, but that's because it's two SEC teams. The country as a whole is more interested in Ohio State-Michigan.[/QUOTE]

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