Big Ten Expansion - Phase II

College Search & Selection
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<p>To say that Michigan is nothing is extreme. One does not have to go back 25 years to figure that one out. The 2006 and 2007 seasons will suffice really. Michigan went 20-6 in those two seasons, ending the 2007 season with a 41-35 win over the University of Florida in Orlando. </p>

<p>This said, the 00s definitely belonged to OSU, just as the 80s and 90s belonged to Michigan. But to say that Michigan is nothing, or to assume that its last 2 years are an irreversible trend is wishful thinking. Whehter it takes 2 more years or 5 years and whether with its current coach or another one, Michigan will return to its usual form.</p>

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<p>Rutgers would be doing the Big East a favor by leaving to go to the Big 10, 11, 12, etc., etc… They bring nothing to the table for the Big East and would be easily replaced by any number of other schools.</p>

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<p>How many Rose Bowls did UM make in the 90’s? How many did they win? UW 3-0.</p>

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<p>‘Humbled’ Terrelle Pryor says he wants to be OSU’s QB as a senior in 2011</p>

<p>Published: Sunday, August 08, 2010, 10:50 PM<br>
Doug Lesmerises, The Plain Dealer
Marvin Fong / The Plain Dealer</p>

<p>OSU quarterback Terrelle Pryor says he’s entering his junior season determined to be not only a better player, but a better teammate to his fellow Buckeyes. “I came in … everybody was telling me how I great I am,” Pryor said. “It can be kind of … you lose your humbleness. And [now] I feel humble. I feel very humble, very appreciative.”
COLUMBUS, Ohio – To hear one Ohio State player tell it, Terrelle Pryor maybe wasn’t a great teammate during his first two years as a Buckeye. Of course, the player explaining this was Pryor himself. </p>

<p>“I think I was a little arrogant, to tell the truth,” Pryor said Sunday, speaking to reporters at Ohio State’s team photo day. “You think about it and I came in as a junior in high school and everybody was praising me, everyone was being around me and everybody was telling me how I great I am. It can be kind of … you lose your humbleness. And [now] I feel humble. I feel very humble, very appreciative.” </p>

<p>Share No one’s looking for a transformation from Pryor, now a junior with 23 games of experience since he took over as the starting quarterback in the fourth game of his freshman season. But everyone’s always looking for progress. </p>

<p>Three days into Ohio State’s preseason camp, his throwing motion seems even a bit more over the top, a continued improvement from his days slinging it as a freshman. His surgically repaired left knee, protected by a brace as it was in the spring, seemed fine as he rolled out and threw on the move during practice Sunday. His haircut has changed – “a boxcut,” Pryor said, “just a little old school, something different.” </p>

<p>And restating what he said during spring practice, Pryor feels more comfortable with everything that goes into lining up, taking that snap and controlling a game. </p>

<p>“I really feel like I’m a quarterback now,” Pryor said. “I feel like I can be a complete quarterback, but I can also run the ball. It’s going to be interesting. I feel smarter and with how much I grew, it’s going to be an interesting year for me.” </p>

<p>Offered up for comparison, here’s Pryor’s description of himself a year ago at photo day, before his sophomore season. </p>

<p>“Right now, I’m a running quarterback,” Pryor said in August of 2009. “I’d like to be a quarterback than can run someday. But right now, I’m a running quarterback.” </p>

<p>So that’s a change. </p>

<p>Pryor also said he’s interacting more with his teammates and with people he runs across in his life. He said he’s sitting up straighter in meetings, paying more attention, answering questions that aren’t even directed at him. </p>

<p>“My freshman and sophomore year I wasn’t trying to get better every day,” he said. “Now I push myself because I got so close with the senior guys now that I want to go out with a bang.” </p>

<p>A year ago, OSU coach Jim Tressel was touting Pryor’s progress, but it was mostly about understanding the offense after a first year just trying to survive on talent. Tressel wasn’t talking about Pryor as an old guy then. Now he is. </p>

<p>“I think he’s played like a veteran these first couple days,” Tressel said. “He’s got such a foundation now that I’ve been very impressed with his summer and his first two practices.” </p>

<p>Pryor claimed Sunday he’s not ready for it to end anytime soon. Unprompted, he said he’d return for his senior season, which might be a smart move according to some draft analysts. </p>

<p>Pryor’s far from the first player to promise to come back – in recent years, running backs Antonio Pittman and Beanie Wells and receiver Anthony Gonzalez all talked about returning before passing on their senior seasons. But again, Pryor wasn’t pressed on this. He was just looking into the future, just as he’d been looking at the past. </p>

<p>“I want to leave a legacy, that’s my goal,” Pryor said. “That’s why I’ll be here for four years. I can’t wait. I’m so happy.” </p>

<p>Source: [‘Humbled</a>’ Terrelle Pryor says he wants to be OSU’s QB as a senior in 2011 | cleveland.com](<a href=“http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2010/08/humbled_terrelle_pryor_says_he.html]'Humbled”>'Humbled' Terrelle Pryor says he wants to be OSU's QB as a senior in 2011 - cleveland.com)</p>

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<p>Numbers back up Badgers’ place in Big Ten</p>

<p>Tom Mulhern | 608-252-6169 | <a href="mailto:tmulhern@madison.com">tmulhern@madison.com</a> | Posted: Thursday, August 5, 2010 5:15 am </p>

<p>Any way you slice it, Ohio State has dominated the Big Ten Conference football landscape for the better part of two decades.</p>

<p>If you go back to 1993 — which is pertinent because that’s the time frame the Big Ten is using for competitive balance in splitting into divisions for 2011 — the Buckeyes have a record of 170-43-1 (.7967 winning percentage.)</p>

<p>Only Florida is better nationally, but it’s close: The Gators are 174-44-1 (.7968.)</p>

<p>If you go back only 10 years, it’s more of the same. Ohio State has the fourth-best record nationally at 102-25 (.803).</p>

<p>The Buckeyes’ performance in the conference is even more impressive. They’ve got the best winning percentages since 1993 (.783) and in the last 10 years (.800), including 36-4 the last five years. They are looking to match their own record of six straight titles this season.</p>

<p>It’s only when you look beyond Ohio State’s impeccable credentials that things get interesting, at least for University of Wisconsin fans.</p>

<p>The Big Ten uses 1993 as a benchmark because that’s when Penn State joined the conference and commissioner Jim Delany said, “We think that’s sort of the modern Big Ten.”</p>

<p>That’s good news for the Badgers, who won their first Rose Bowl title under Barry Alvarez after the 1993 regular season. But it also shows the fickle nature of current college football programs — the Buckeyes notwithstanding.</p>

<p>Entering the 1993 season, UW ranked No. 86 nationally in winning percentage over the previous decade at .352 (39-72-1). While Alvarez was beginning to make strides after three years on the job, there was little to indicate the jump the Badgers were about to make.</p>

<p>Over the next 10 years, the Badgers ranked No. 17 in winning percentage, going 81-39-4 (.669) and winning three Rose Bowl titles.</p>

<p>UW coach Bret Bielema has put together records of Big Ten teams and Nebraska over the last 10- and 20-year time frames.</p>

<p>“There are six teams that are the same (over) 10 years and 20 years,” Bielema said. “But the order changes when you look at 10 versus 20.”</p>

<p>Using the last 17 years — the time frame the Big Ten is looking at — the top six overall winning percentages are: Ohio State (.797), Nebraska (.760), Penn State (.703), Michigan (.695), UW (.686) and Iowa (.580).</p>

<p>But it’s the last 10 years that really caught Bielema’s eye: Ohio State (.803), UW (.667), Nebraska (.656), Michigan (.653), Iowa (.640) and Penn State (.626).</p>

<p>The Badgers don’t fare quite as well in conference records, an indication that their lofty status is due in part to questionable non-conference schedules. They rank fourth among Big Ten schools in conference winning percentage (.592) since 1993 and fifth (.550) in the last 10 years.</p>

<p>Bielema mentioned the Big 12’s decision after expanding to pair Texas and Oklahoma in one division and Nebraska and Colorado in the other.</p>

<p>Since 1996, Texas has the third-best winning percentage nationally, Oklahoma and Nebraska are tied for ninth and Colorado is 58th.</p>

<p>“Think about how those two teams, Nebraska and Colorado, in particular, changed during the last 10 years,” Bielema said, referencing the Cornhuskers’ struggles a few years ago. “So, I don’t know how much you can buy into that (10-year histories).”</p>

<p>But are longer time frames any more instructive? Is looking at the success a team had 20 years ago any better indicator of future results?</p>

<p>And given the recent downturns of other prominent programs — such as Miami (Fla.), Florida State and Tennessee — are there any guarantees Michigan will bounce back quickly?</p>

<p>Those are among the difficult questions that must be addressed by Big Ten athletic directors in splitting into divisions, while not forgetting about rivalries, geography and a host of other concerns.</p>

<p>Bielema had the point of how perspectives change driven home by a recruit’s parent.</p>

<p>“We were sitting in my office and we offered (the player) a scholarship,” Bielema said. “I said to the young man, ‘Over the last so-and-so years, we’ve done this, this and this.’</p>

<p>“The dad slapped me on the back and said, ’A lot different from when I was 18 — we (Badgers) were terrible.’ I had never thought of that approach, how bad Wisconsin was during the parents’ era. It’s a generation thing.”</p>

<p>Bielema thinks UW’s perception is changing, but it took seeing the totals from the last 10 years to drive the point home to him.</p>

<p>“It’s just like now, when we’re dealing with expansion, everyone wants to talk about Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State and Nebraska,” Bielema said.</p>

<p>“Other than the (current) players, that’s the era they (reporters) grew up in. For us to change that culture, we need to keep it alive and do well for another 18 or 20 years.”</p>

<p>Source: [Numbers</a> back up Badgers’ place in Big Ten](<a href=“http://host.madison.com/sports/college/football/article_5de8b0e4-a02f-11df-b6dc-001cc4c03286.html]Numbers”>Numbers back up Badgers' place in Big Ten)</p>

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<p>Last Updated: August 20. 2010 12:47PM .</p>

<p>Dave Brandon anticipates U-M, OSU in separate divisions
Angelique S. Chengelis / The Detroit News</p>

<p>It certainly appears Michigan and Ohio State will be in separate divisions in the Big Ten, and the annual rivalry game will move from its traditional spot as the last regular-season game. </p>

<p>Michigan athletic director Dave Brandon, appearing Friday morning on WTKA 1050 AM, was asked by host Sam Webb if he thinks the rivals will be in the same division, when the breakdown is revealed, more than likely within the next month. </p>

<p>Brandon answered after a long pause. </p>

<p>“No,” Brandon said. “Because we’re in a situation where one of the best things that could happen in my opinion in a given season would be the opportunity to play Ohio State twice, once during the regular season and once for the championship of the Big Ten.” </p>

<p>Brandon’s comments on “The Game” come a day after Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith was quoted in the Columbus Dispatch saying similar things about the rivalry. </p>

<p>“I know one thing for sure – that we’re going to play (Michigan every year),” Smith told the Dispatch. “We may end up playing the last game of the year, or not. I just don’t know yet.” </p>

<p>Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany said last Saturday that he expects Big Ten divisions to be formalized in about a month. Nebraska has joined the conference, and will begin competition in 2011. The football season will have a championship game beginning in December 2011. </p>

<p>Brandon said while he will not make the ultimate decision regarding divisions, he does have “one-12th” of the vote. He clearly sounded like an athletic director who will vote to have the teams in separate divisions. </p>

<p>“I think there’s a distinct possibility that that game will be a later game in the season, but not necessarily the last game of the season,” Brandon said on WTKA. "And that’s simply because … I don’t think the coaches, or the players or the fans or the networks or anyone would appreciate that matchup to happen twice within the same seven-day period. </p>

<p>"However the divisional alignments occur, and I think we’re getting closer and closer, I don’t get to make the decision but I get one-12th of the vote. </p>

<p>“We’ve been working a lot on this topic. I like the way it’s coming around. I think it’s going to be really exciting. What you’re really going to want is the last game of the season to determine who’s going to be the champion of that division and go to the championship game and play for all the marbles. From a scheduling, timing perspective, it’s a new ballgame. And although I love playing Ohio State the last game of the year, I don’t think it’s necessarily a slam dunk that’s going to continue.” </p>

<p>From The Detroit News: [Dave</a> Brandon anticipates U-M, OSU in separate divisions | detnews.com | The Detroit News](<a href=“Detroit Local News - Michigan News - Breaking News - detroitnews.com”>Detroit Local News - Michigan News - Breaking News - detroitnews.com)</p>

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<p>Big Ten announces division alignment, separates Michigan and Ohio State</p>

<p>Sep 01, 2010
USA TODAY – CAMPUS RIVALRY
Armen Terjimanian</p>

<p>"The Big Ten announced its football division alignments in a setup that places rivals Michigan and Ohio State in separate divisions but preserves the schools’ annual regular-season ending showdown in November.</p>

<p>One division features Illinois, Indiana, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue and Wisconsin and the other features Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Nebraska and Northwestern."</p>

<p>Link: [Big</a> Ten announces division alignment, separates Michigan and Ohio State - Campus Rivalry: College Football & Basketball News, Recruiting, Game Picks, and More - USATODAY.com](<a href=“Big Ten announces division alignment, separates Michigan and Ohio State”>Big Ten announces division alignment, separates Michigan and Ohio State)</p>

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<p>Thanks Sparkeye!</p>

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<p>I like it. The divisions look pretty even to me.</p>

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<p>I agree. I also like the Michigan-OSU game will be played at then end of the season and that PSU and Nebraska will be playing every year as well.</p>

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<p>I think it’s an interim deal–until they add 4 more teams. I like being in the Ohio/Pennsy division for our recruiting much better.</p>

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<p>In other Big Ten news did you see the video of that Iowa center on his moped getting hit by a pickup truck?! Glad he’s alright… Media said it was a moped but the big Guy probably just made it look like a moped. Helmets are so vital.</p>

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<p>@rjk, you are welcome! :)</p>

<p>barrons: “I think it’s an interim deal–until they add 4 more teams.” +1</p>

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<p>Most traditional rivalries live on in new Big Ten</p>

<p>By RUSTY MILLER (AP) – 2 hours ago
9-2-10</p>

<p>The Big Ten’s athletic directors got together on what was truly a conference call on Wednesday. The first thing Ohio State’s Gene Smith did was open some accompanying e-mails that listed proposed Buckeyes football schedules for 2011 and 2012.</p>

<p>“I went straight to the end,” Smith said, “and I was jacked.”</p>

<p>There, in its customary spot at the very bottom of Ohio State’s regular-season schedule, was archrival Michigan.</p>

<p>After weeks of speculation and debate, the Big Ten announced on Wednesday night the new divisions that take effect when Nebraska joins the party in the new 12-team conference in 2011.</p>

<p>Fans had been up in arms about the possibility that one of sports’ biggest rivalries — Michigan vs. Ohio State, blue vs. scarlet, Bo vs. Woody — might somehow lose out to competitive balance in the conference’s new divisional setup. But what is called “The Game” in the two states was among several red-letter games that were preserved.</p>

<p>The divisions don’t have names yet — a design and marketing firm is working on mock-ups (Black and Blue, anybody?). But most schools were able to preserve the game with their chief adversary while also adding some new texture to the new-look conference race. So there was a sigh of relief in several Big Ten outposts.</p>

<p>Illinois, Indiana, Penn State, Purdue, Wisconsin and Ohio State make up one division, with Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern and new 2011 member Nebraska, in the other.</p>

<p>There was innovation and yet permanence about the new setup, which pertains only to football and no other sport.</p>

<p>“We want to see how it goes. We really want to see how the fans respond,” commissioner Jim Delany said during the 90-minute show on the Big Ten Network revealing the divisions and schedules. “We’re excited about it and we think it does a pretty good job not only maintaining great old matchups, but also creating some great new matchups.”</p>

<p>The Big Ten has long prided itself on its marquee matchups, none more cherished that the annual neighboring-state brawl between Michigan and Ohio State. While the ADs looked at divisional models and dithered over what rivalries to keep and which ones to allow to fade into the background, there was a groundswell of opinion from fans who did not want the annual final-game showdown eliminated or even moved around on the schedule. The rivals have met in the last game on the schedule every year since 1943, frequently with a Big Ten title hanging in the balance.</p>

<p>Since they’re in opposite divisions, they’ll continue to play each other but might just get to do it twice — the latter in the new Big Ten championship game matching divisional winners a week after their schedule date.</p>

<p>“It provides us the opportunity to have that great cross rivalry we want to have,” Michigan AD David Brandon said. “But it also gives us the opportunity, when we both deserve it, to play for that chance to play in the Rose Bowl and for the national title.”</p>

<p>“The Game” has decided the Big Ten champion 22 times.</p>

<p>Smith said the uproar provided by worried fans had an effect.</p>

<p>“I can’t imagine that it didn’t,” he said. “The conference office received probably half of the e-mails that we got and they were copied in. I’ve always said we have to listen to our customers and I’m sure the conference office did that.”</p>

<p>Perhaps the only downside to the new divisional play is that a couple of traditional rivalries — Iowa vs. Wisconsin for the Heartland Trophy, and Penn State vs. Michigan State for the Land Grant Trophy — didn’t make the cut.</p>

<p>Also, perhaps because everyone was clamoring to have the newcomers on their schedule, Nebraska’s Cornhuskers face a daunting start. They open Big Ten play at Wisconsin and at home against Ohio State in early October 2011. Every bully on the block plays the Cornhuskers — Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Penn State — right off the bat.</p>

<p>“I thought, ‘Whoa, what are we doing here?’” former Nebraska coach and AD Tom Osborne said when he saw the first two schedules.</p>

<p>Even Osborne heard the pleas of desperate Ohio State and Michigan fans.</p>

<p>“I got an awful lot of mail here in Lincoln, Nebraska, about fans making sure Michigan and Ohio State played at the end of the season, and some of them were mad at me for (putting that in jeopardy),” Osborne said. “So I’m glad they got that worked out.”</p>

<p>Delany believes the Big Ten got it right.</p>

<p>“We’re going to be in divisions for the next 50 years, probably, and Nebraska is going to be with us for the next 50 or 100 years,” he said. “Just like Penn State has been with us for the past 20 years.”</p>

<p>That all sounds permanent. But the Big Ten may not be done adding new members.</p>

<p>“Some other conference could do something in the east and the next thing you know, we’ve got to respond,” Smith said.</p>

<p>Copyright © 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. </p>

<p>Link: [The</a> Associated Press: Most traditional rivalries live on in new Big Ten](<a href=“http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jrBahb12Yui0szrSODBMNv9GhaRwD9HVLOJO0]The”>http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jrBahb12Yui0szrSODBMNv9GhaRwD9HVLOJO0)</p>

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<p>Not much respect for MSU by the Big 10. Their yearly intersectional rivalry game is now Indiana. I guess 17 years of PSU was enough. Well it’s actually good news for Sparty. It’s like an automatic win every year.</p>

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<p>2011 Nebraska (Big Ten) Schedule</p>

<p>10/1- @Wisconsin
10/8- Ohio State
10/15- Bye
10/22- @Minnesota
10/29- Michigan State
11/5- Northwestern
11/12- @Penn State
11/19- @Michigan
11/26- Iowa</p>

<h2>Source: [2011</a> Big 10(+2) Schedule - HuskerBoard.com - Husker Message Board](<a href=“2011 Big 10(+2) Schedule - Husker Football - HuskerBoard.com - Nebraska Cornhuskers Message Board”>2011 Big 10(+2) Schedule - Husker Football - HuskerBoard.com - Nebraska Cornhuskers Message Board)</h2>

<p>Wow, Nebraska will be hammered - scheduled to play against all the top teams from both divisions in its debut year to the Big Ten!!</p>

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<p>[Oates:</a> UW the big loser in Big Ten realignment](<a href=“http://host.madison.com/sports/college/football/article_bfa930a6-b63c-11df-8ca9-001cc4c002e0.html]Oates:”>http://host.madison.com/sports/college/football/article_bfa930a6-b63c-11df-8ca9-001cc4c002e0.html)</p>

<p>Also see this interesting story on Nebraska’s addition to the B 10: [The</a> Big Ten Decision - Omaha.com](<a href=“http://www.omaha.com/article/20100830/BIGRED/708309872#the-big-ten-decision]The”>http://www.omaha.com/article/20100830/BIGRED/708309872#the-big-ten-decision)</p>

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<p>While UW got a geographic challenge I really like getting the states with nearly 50 Million people and lots of football talent over the ones with 33 Million and much less talent. Exposure annually in Ohio and Penn will be great for recruiting and PA really bleeds over into NJ and MD as many follow PSU football in those areas.</p>

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<p>“Not much respect for MSU by the Big 10. Their yearly intersectional rivalry game is now Indiana. I guess 17 years of PSU was enough. Well it’s actually good news for Sparty. It’s like an automatic win every year.”</p>

<p>Indeed! I am not hearing people complaining over at Spartantailgate.com.</p>

<p>MSU AD Hollis only had one divisional request prior to the actual announcement 2 days ago which was to be in the same division as ‘Northwestern’ due to its prime Chicagoland exposure (plus NU’s HC Pat Fitzgerald has been doing a great job as of late), and he got his wish! </p>

<p>Source: <a href=“http://greenandwhite.com/article/20100803/GW01/8030339[/url]”>http://greenandwhite.com/article/20100803/GW01/8030339&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>In terms of MSU vs PSU, in addition to the geographic unfit for both teams (as well as State’s lopsided record against PSU…), that particular matchup is really a forced rivalry upon Nittany Lions’ Big Ten inception in '93 which neither side of the fans really care much about imho (not to mention the unattractive Land Grant Trophy). So far as I am concerned, MSU’s main rivals are UMich & ND, and PSU’s rivavls are tOSU & UMich, respectively. </p>

<p>Anyway, TOSU vs Marshall - Kickoff in 6 hrs!!! lol~</p>

<p>Good Read for the Buckeye Fans:
[Face</a> of the Buckeyes: In 10 years at Ohio State, Jim Tressel’s legacy of winning is quickly becoming legend | cleveland.com](<a href=“http://www.cleveland.com/osu/index.ssf/2010/09/face_of_the_buckeyes_in_10_yea.html]Face”>Face of the Buckeyes: In 10 years at Ohio State, Jim Tressel's legacy of winning is quickly becoming legend - cleveland.com)</p>

<p>Go Bucks!!! lol~</p>

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<h2>"Im in the process of losing 5k on OSU game! Reply </h2>

<p>Bet 5k on Marshall +28.5 on tuesday! 12:00 left in the 4th and Marshall is doing nothing!!! Oh my GOD (SERIOUSLY)!</p>

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<p>Link: [Rivals.com</a> College Football - Message Boards](<a href=“http://collegefootball.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?SID=1144&fid=2150&style=2&tid=146758433&Page=1]Rivals.com”>http://collegefootball.rivals.com/showmsg.asp?SID=1144&fid=2150&style=2&tid=146758433&Page=1)</p>

<p>Fans Brawling in the Stands Significantly More Exciting Than Miami’s 45-0 Rout of Florida A&M</p>

<p>V-Link: [Fans</a> Brawling in the Stands Significantly More Exciting Than Miami’s 45-0 Rout of Florida A&M | The Big Lead](<a href=“http://thebiglead.com/index.php/2010/09/03/fans-brawling-in-the-stands-significantly-more-exciting-than-miamis-45-0-rout-of-florida-am/]Fans”>Fans Brawling in the Stands Significantly More Exciting Than Miami's 45-0 Rout of Florida A&M)</p>

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<p>oh heck, I will throw this one in as well for your weekend amusement…lol</p>

<p>Fight in upper deck interrupts U.S. Open match</p>

<p>V-Link: [Video:</a> Fight in upper deck interrupts U.S. Open match - Busted Racquet - Tennis - Yahoo! Sports](<a href=“Sports News, Scores, Fantasy Games - Yahoo Sports”>Sports News, Scores, Fantasy Games - Yahoo Sports)</p>

<p>What is worse than alcohol + gambling?!..</p>