Which bowl game are you most torn about?

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Madscientistvol

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I was looking through the remaining bowls and noticed that with only one exception I had a clear favorite I would prefer to see win. My game where I wish both could lose is OSU and Notre Dame, what's y'all's?
 
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I want Air Force to win their game and TCU to beat Oregon. I also want the SEC to go 1-9 in their games. Outside of those I don't really care who wins. I just want to see some competitive games.
 
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Madscientistvol said:
I was looking through the remaining bowls and noticed that with only one exception I had a clear favorite I would prefer to see win. My game where I wish both could lose is OSU and Notre Dame, what's y'all's?
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When the Fiesta Bowl was announced my wife said your worst fear, who will you root for? I said the meteor.

Her family is Catholic and they all pull for ND after their respective alma maters. For that reason, BK being an ass and the media's love for them is why I despise ND. I don't pull for Baptist schools, such as Baylor, simply because I'm Baptist so I've never understood why Catholics feel like they have to root for ND.
 
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bowlinggreenvol said:
When the Fiesta Bowl was announced my wife said your worst fear, who will you root for? I said the meteor.

Her family is Catholic and they all pull for ND after their respective alma maters. For that reason, BK being an ass and the media's love for them is why I despise ND. I don't pull for Baptist schools, such as Baylor, simply because I'm Baptist so I've never understood why Catholics feel like they have to root for ND.
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Didn't know Baylor was a Baptist school. What denomination is TCU?

Learn something new everyday.
 
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I'm torn about the Memphis-Auburn game. I'd be fine with the SEC losing every game but ours, but I don't really want to hear the Memphis fans all offseason if they "go 2-0 against the SEC West".
 
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Clemson vs OU was the hardest to pick for me at the time. Second was IU and Duke
 
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RockyTop411 said:
Didn't know Baylor was a Baptist school. What denomination is TCU?

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Disciples of Christ

kinda embarrassing when they had their ethical oopsie :ermm:


eta: sorry, didn't see bowlinggreen's reply :hi:
 
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volgrad500 said:
I'm torn about the Memphis-Auburn game. I'd be fine with the SEC losing every game but ours, but I don't really want to hear the Memphis fans all offseason if they "go 2-0 against the SEC West".
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Why in the world? I mean... how does that make any sense from the standpoint of a fan of an SEC team?
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
Why in the world? I mean... how does that make any sense from the standpoint of a fan of an SEC team?
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Its a double edged sword. Wanting to see your sworn enemies lose but not wanting to lose the conference prestige at the same time.

Some of us just want our cake and to eat it too, I know I do.
 
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I'd like to see Wisconsin win. I'd prefer Cal to beat AF. WVU and TCU.

But I have no vested interest.
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
Why in the world? I mean... how does that make any sense from the standpoint of a fan of an SEC team?
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If it's schools we directly recruit against - UGA, UF, etc - then yes it does.

Not having anything that's more of a selling point - for example, more recent major successes, nations championships, etc - that they can use the players we're also pursuing helps.


Others in the conference that we don't recruit directly against I don't care about really.
 
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bowlinggreenvol said:
Christian Church (aka Disciples of Christ) I believe.
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TCU was once located in Waco, along with Baylor, until their campus "mysteriously" burned to the ground :whistling: TCU and Baylor have one of the closest and most "heated" rivalries in college football with a series record of 57-57-2.

History

Brothers Addison and Randolph Clark founded TCU in 1873 in Thorp Spring, Texas, as AddRan Male and Female College.

The school moved to Waco in 1895.

The name was changed to AddRan Christian University in 1889 and Texas Christian University in 1902.

TCU relocated to downtown Fort Worth in 1910 when the Waco facility burned, and opened three new buildings on the present campus in 1911.
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
Why in the world? I mean... how does that make any sense from the standpoint of a fan of an SEC team?
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It makes perfect sense. I mean Alabama, Florida, and Georgia are all our sworn enemies. I can't comprehend why any Vol fan would ever pull for those teams. I wish it was possible for them to all go 0-12 every year.
 
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MyBloodRunnethOrange said:
It makes perfect sense. I mean Alabama, Florida, and Georgia are all our sworn enemies. I can't comprehend why any Vol fan would ever pull for those teams. I wish it was possible for them to all go 0-12 every year.
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So you want our conference to be the laughing stock of college football, essentially?

That's all good and fun until your strength of schedule is so weak that an undefeated season still doesn't get you a shot at the national championship.

After Louisville beat A&M tonight, the crowd was chanting "ACC!! ACC!!" Go ahead and chant with them if you want to, maybe you can even have a few beers with them and dream of a day where the ACC rules college football and the SEC is the least respected conference in the NCAA.

Since that would totally be beneficial to UT
 
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Toss up between UGA vs. PSU and Bama vs. MSU.

I hate UGA and Bama but loathe the Big Ten and their fans (of all 12 schools, especially PSU).
 
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chatt-townVOL said:
So you want our conference to be the laughing stock of college football, essentially?

That's all good and fun until your strength of schedule is so weak that an undefeated season still doesn't get you a shot at the national championship.

After Louisville beat A&M tonight, the crowd was chanting "ACC!! ACC!!" Go ahead and chant with them if you want to, maybe you can even have a few beers with them and dream of a day where the ACC rules college football and the SEC is the least respected conference in the NCAA.

Since that would totally be beneficial to UT
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I've never really thought about what the players think of the league pride. Then at halftime of the Holiday Bowl they did a Cotton Bowl preview and Jonathan Allen of Bama said, "the SEC has to win it. Doesn't matter who it is playing in the playoff, the SEC has to win it." I thought that was an interesting take. Had to rewind to make sure I heard him correctly.
 
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bowlinggreenvol said:
I've never really thought about what the players think of the league pride. Then at halftime of the Holiday Bowl they did a Cotton Bowl preview and Jonathan Allen of Bama said, "the SEC has to win it. Doesn't matter who it is playing in the playoff, the SEC has to win it." I thought that was an interesting take. Had to rewind to make sure I heard him correctly.
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I heard that too. I like that mentality. I hate our rivals as much as anyone, but our status as a relevant team is lost if our adversaries lose.

I want to beat them. I don't care if they beat someone else.

Now with that said, I hope Clemson or OU beats Bama in the Championship game. Last thing I need to hear is a Bammer trying to count past 10 or 25 or however many championships they claim to have.
 
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