Oh, Don't You Tease Me.

Cory Giger maps the path to a Penn State vs. Pitt matchup in the Fiesta Bowl.

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Meh

I want the Rose Bowl and I want USC.

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Oct 26, 2009 9:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

I want a pony and a baby brother.

But I think the Fiesta/Orange bowl are more realistic. I’m ok with this.

by PSUJunny05 on Oct 26, 2009 9:33 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

You fool

Iowa will go undefeated number 1 forever

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Oct 26, 2009 9:35 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Speaking of which...

You should check out some of the comments on Ohio State blogs: “We’ll beat Iowa cause we own them.”

Hell, it worked for Michigan.

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Oct 26, 2009 9:36 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Of course they'll beat Iowa.

Pryor is their QB. Didn’t you know he was good? MICHIGAN RECRUITED HIM!!

by PSUJunny05 on Oct 26, 2009 9:37 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

did you also know that joepa is a good coach?

he was ALMOST THE MICHIGAN COACH!!

also…go figure their AD would send a thank you card to joe EVERY YEAR because they got bo schemblehdsjksdjkhsd. a-hole…

We decide when you hear the snap count...

by thedrizzle on Oct 26, 2009 12:30 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

They got Bo

and national titles or undefeated seasons, and they think they lucked out.

Some people really are so far behind in the race that they think they are winning.

Beat Northwestern.

by jesse. on Oct 26, 2009 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

They own Purdue too.

Oops.

by Cairo on Oct 26, 2009 3:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

that the Fiesta Bowl in Arizona could host the game everyone in Pennsylvania wants to see.

I love that they still take that as a given

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Oct 26, 2009 9:33 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

i don’t live in Pennsylvania anymore, but I’m from there and I do not particularly want to see this matchup. I’d prefer playing Pitt to a team liek Boise St or TCU but there’s a lot of different BCS conference opponents I’d much rather face than Pitt.

by Laaaaazzz on Oct 26, 2009 10:24 AM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

why would we WANT to play a game where there is no benefit to winning?

we win…ok yeah we should win. we lose…we’d never here the end of it. why would we want to subject ourselves to that possibility?

We decide when you hear the snap count...

by thedrizzle on Oct 26, 2009 12:32 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

There is always a benefit

in winning a BCS game.

Beat Northwestern.

by jesse. on Oct 26, 2009 1:36 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

True

It’s certainly a good thing to win a BCS game, period. And that would be the mark of a good season.

But I for one would rather play and beat a good team with a national reputation than a team that no ones cares much about like Pitt. To each their own, though.

by Laaaaazzz on Oct 26, 2009 2:02 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I'd like another crack at USC

or Oklahoma (I’d like to take them off the list of programs we’ve beaten, after them look out Wisshaton Barrakcs) or Miami.

But we’ll play who we play if we’re fortunate enough to get to the BCS. If we played Pitt, it would be because they are 11-1, and just came off a streak where they beat Notre Dame, WVU on the road and a top five Cincinnati team. They’ll have earned the right to be there, and we had damn well better show up to play.

Media be damned, that would be a war.

Beat Northwestern.

by jesse. on Oct 26, 2009 2:08 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Agreed

I would love for PSU to play Pitt if they aren’t able to win the Big 10 this year. For some reason, people want to discount that this was PSU’s biggest rival for decades and say it doesn’t matter (although people seem to get really nostalgic when we renew games against similar old rivals like Syracuse, Alabama, and Notre Dame).

I was at the College Football Hall of Fame a few years ago – and they had a display up of the Top 10 All Time College Football Rivalries and Pitt vs PSU was listed among them. (PSU – Temple did not make the list although some people on here think it is important to keep that “rivalry”)

PSU has played lesser opponents for financial benefit (i.e. more home games) and they have given up basically all of their rivals over the years – and that would be a great game to relive an old rivalry – even if it is just for one game. I think this would be a benefit for both teams.

We can pretend all we want, but it’s not like OSU or Michigan or anyone else in the Big 10 considers us a big rivalry anyway…that is one of the things that makes college football great and has been lacking in our games. Having said all that, I don’t think that Pitt will beat Cincy though.

by mundyscorner99 on Oct 26, 2009 3:20 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

First of all, who cares what Ohio State or Michigan thinks? We consider them rivals and that's good enough

Secondly, if we keep beating Ohio State and Michigan, they’ll stop pretending after some time.

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Oct 26, 2009 3:23 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

I don't care if we beat Michigan or Ohio State 100 straight times

Their biggest game against each other…and this is based on YEARS of history. Sort of like what happened with Pitt and Penn State. And that’s why it would be a great game to be played again.

by mundyscorner99 on Oct 26, 2009 3:37 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

meant to say

Their biggest game is against each other

by mundyscorner99 on Oct 26, 2009 3:38 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Except it probably wouldn't be a great game to play

Tradition doesn’t always lead to awesome games. Most years, Penn State is clearly superior. We dominated them for most of the Paterno era. “12-0!” doesn’t change that.

DO YOU HAVE PRIDE, DANNY?

by ReadingRambler on Oct 26, 2009 4:41 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

Well if we beat them 100 straight times

that would be 100 years (for Ohio State at least), and I’m fairly certain that counts as years of history. I mean, people, actual humans, are where all the hatred and passion associated with rivalries exist. 100 years from now, everyone involved with these teams, with the possible exception of Joe Pa, will be gone. Things can change.

You even compare it to the Penn State and Pitt rivalry. And of course, they’re very similar. But that rivalry is before my time (in college now), and I don’t care about it in the slightest. Neither does most of my generation. If the rivalry doesn’t get renewed, they’ll be very few who care in the future.

The same thing could happen with OSU and Michigan. Imagine a generation of young buckeyes who only know heart breaking defeats to Penn State, and dominance over Michigan. Who do you think they’re going to hate more? Granted it’s so much less likely considering they are guaranteed to play every year until something changes, and it won’t be one sided forever, it could still happen.

Even if it doesn’t happen, if football doesn’t die out and the U.S. still exists in some way, and the universities still exist in some fashion, and the conferences haven’t changed that much, 1000 years from now, Michigan and Ohio State will have played 1105 times. Penn State and Ohio State will have played 1024 times. In the grand scheme of things they wouldn’t be so far apart.

Much abbreviated point: There are opportunities for us to barge into that rivalry.

Side note: I know I said I don’t care about Pitt, and I don’t, but I wouldn’t mind seeing us play them, if it leads to a renewal of the rivalry, and eventually I would start caring of course.

by PSUisMyHeart on Oct 26, 2009 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

If we played Pitt, it would be because they are 11-1, and just came off a streak where they beat Notre Dame, WVU on the road and a top five Cincinnati team.

Just FWIW, Pitt being in the BCS doesn’t mean they are 11-1 automatically. They could easily be 10-2 (lose to ND, but win all BE games). They could even conceivably be 9-3 (6-1 in conference, say, losing to WVU but beating Cinci with WVU losing to Cinci and (say) USF with Pitt going to the BCS over Cinci based on head to head).

Not that it’s a big deal either way, just pointing it out.

by Laaaaazzz on Oct 26, 2009 6:46 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i realize that

but something deep down inside the dark recesses of my soul tells me that the media would pull the “well they should have won and they did, so lets move on to jerking off USC more” card.

We decide when you hear the snap count...

by thedrizzle on Oct 26, 2009 2:04 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

i don't know

pitt got blanked in their last bowl game. this means they are ready to explode this time ’round, yes?

Eat what the monkey eats, then eat the monkey. -U.S. Navy survival guidance

by psudrozz on Oct 26, 2009 9:34 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

This doesn't really excite me.

But I would still prefer it over a game against BSU or TCU.

BSD

by Kevin HD on Oct 26, 2009 9:56 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Pitt, BSU, TCU.

Everything to lose and little to gain in those three matchups. I’d take any Pac-10, SEC, Big XII, or ACC team over them.

by Cairo on Oct 26, 2009 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs

True

If we ended up in the Fiesta Bowl as an at large (and assuming we don’t face the Big 12 champs, like a Texas team that stumbles somewhere along the way), I’d really like to see us play an at large Pac-10 team (which could be any of USC, Oregon, Arizona, Cal depending on how things work out).

by Laaaaazzz on Oct 26, 2009 6:49 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs