but the thing that is pathetic is that Ohio State would go round (and that the Big Ten would let OSU) call themselves co-champs after we beat them head-to-head is just sad. Anything by the Big Ten to discredit Penn State and JoePa, I suppose. If the roles were reversed, I would never have called it ourselves co-champs.

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At this time last year wasn’t Michigan being crowned Big Ten champ and possible National Champ. They didn’t even make it through the cupcake portion of their season before their hopes were dashed. The media always pick the favorites. The great unpredictability in college ball is how much a player and team can improve or regress from year to year. Making pre-season predictions are just a WAG (Wild Ass Guess). Some like to use statistics to support their guesses making them a SWAG (Scientific Wild ASS Guesses).

1. Nobody in the east wanted to vote for us because they were all pissed off about us
joining the Big Ten and leaving their little fraternity, but yet they didn’t want us in an
all eastern sports league. So there were sour grapes right there.

2. Any Big Ten official, fan, coach or school can say otherwise because their worst fears didn’t come true, but they were all scared to death of us
when we joined the Big Ten, and they were afraid we were going to dominate the
league. Former Michigan coach Gary Moeller said “Penn State will make our jobs
harder.” Iowa coach Hayden Fry said “They’ll injure people and maybe cost
somebody a national championship.” (Both quotes taken from The Paterno Legacy). Granted, it hasn’t turned out that way, but that just proves
they were scared of us at the time. As a result, after we came in and were the
first school since the Fuckeyes in 1968 to go undefeated, everybody, out of
childish spite, voted dear old Tom Osborne #1 because they were pissed that the
new kids on the block upset the apple cart.

3. People can say our schedule was weak that year, but they cry that about us
every year. As far back as 1973, Sports Illustrated stated “Texas grows fat on
people like Rice, TCU and Baylor and it matters not. Notre Dame dines on
Army, Navy and Pitt and it bothers no one. But let Penn State take on Ohio
University and sirens go off.” Why the double standard with our so-called
competition? LIke my dad said, until there’s a real playoff, they might as well
put the national championship trophy in a urinal and let people piss on it
because that’s all it’s worth. People apply all sorts of double standards to how
they vote, and they sure as hell hate us. That’s why they had no trouble
splitting the 1997 title between scUM and the Cornfuckers.

Because of this prejudice against us by the media and our own conference “brothers,’ that’s why it made me absolutely sick to see OSU win it all in 2002, and I’ve laughed like a jackal the last two title games OSU got romped in. And I will not, will not, root for any Big Ten team to win in a championship game, even if it’s against Notre Dame, until we’ve won another national title (maybe two) just out of childish spite.

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We can always laugh at Miami and no matter how that rivalry goes, bring up THE Fiesta Bowl. It’s interesting that you bring Miami up. If they wouldn’t have choked in the Orange Bowl against the Cornfuckers, we wouldn’t be rehashing the 1994 screw job.

Actually, now that I remember it, I might have been rooting for Al Qaeda to blow up Tempe the night Miami played OSU.

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Also, I remember Miami’s Receivers dropping key passes on 3rd down(Chris T. Jones, the future Iggle, I am talking to you) that would have sustained drives.