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College Football V: Bowls Are Done; Carry On My Wayward Sons

Re: College Football V: Bowls Are Done; Carry On My Wayward Sons

Um, that would be 5 years. 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015.
 
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It's being held there this year too.

edit: Nevermind, the post I was commenting on disappeared.
 
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Cleveland Plain Dealer reporting that Pryor "has decided to end his football career" at Ohio State.
 
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ESPN is also reporting the same.
 
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I'm so sad to hear that Pryor has been driven away from Ohio State. Too many journalists have put the car before the horse. He should be given a free ride on this one. Too many people have turned into backseat drivers on this. I hope Pryor can put this in the rear view mirror, puts the pedal to the metal and has a great career with <del>NASCAR</del> the NFL.
 
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Saw this on another forum, and I thought I would share it with you guys....
wscsuperfan said:
Throughout the past two decades, college football has moved from eight- to 10-team regional conferences with a couple dozen independents to an era of super conferences and league title games.

A look back at the conference moves of the past 20 or so years:

Division I-A Conferences as of 1990

ACC (8 teams)
Clemson, Duke, Georgia Tech, Maryland, North Carolina, North Carolina State, Virginia, Wake Forest

Big Ten (10 teams)
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Northwestern, Ohio State, Purdue, Wisconsin

Big 8 (8 teams)
Colorado, Iowa State, Kansas, Kansas State, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Oklahoma State

Big West (8 teams)
Cal State-Fullerton, Fresno State, Long Beach State, New Mexico State, Pacific, San Jose State, UNLV, Utah State

Mid-American Conference (9 teams)
Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan, Eastern Michigan, Kent State, Miami (OH), Ohio, Toledo, Western Michigan

Pac-10 (10 teams)
Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, Stanford, UCLA, USC, Washington, Washington State

Southeastern Conference (10 teams)
Alabama, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi, Mississippi State, Tennessee, Vanderbilt

Southwest Conference (9 teams)
Arkansas, Baylor, Houston, Rice, Southern Methodist, Texas, Texas A&M, Texas Christian, Texas Tech

Western Athletic Conference (9 teams)
Air Force, Brigham Young, Colorado State, Hawaii, New Mexico, San Diego State, Texas-El Paso, Utah, Wyoming

Notable Independents
Boston College, Florida State, Miami (FL), Notre Dame, Penn State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, South Carolina, Syracuse, Temple, Virginia Tech, West Virginia

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1991
- Independents Boston College, Miami, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Syracuse, Temple, Virginia Tech, and West Virginia establish the football playing portion of the Big East Conference with 8 members

1992
- The SEC expands to 12 members adding Arkansas from the Southwest Conference and independent South Carolina. With 12 total members, the SEC is the first Division I-A conference to split into divisions and establish a conference championship game. The Southwest Conference now stands at 8 members.

- Independent Florida State joins the ACC, giving them 9 members.

- Independent Akron joins the MAC, giving them 10 members

- Big West member Fresno State leaves to join the WAC, giving them 10 members

- Nevada joins the Big West as its 8th member

1993
- Independent Penn State joins the Big Ten, giving that league 11 teams

- Arkansas State, Louisiana Tech, Northern Illinois and Southwestern Louisiana join the Big West as football-only members, giving that league 12 teams

1996
- The Southwest Conference dissolves

- Southwest Conference members Baylor, Texas, Texas A&M and Texas Tech merge with the Big 8 schools to form the Big 12 conference. With 12 members, the Big 12 becomes the second conference to split into divisions and stage a conference championship game.

- Southwest Conference member Houston joins with independents Cincinnati, Louisville, Memphis, Southern Mississippi and Tulane to form Conference USA with 6 members.

- The WAC moves to 16 teams by adding Rice, Southern Methodist and Texas Christian from the Southwest Conference, UNLV and San Jose State from the Big West and independent Tulsa. The WAC holds a championship game for the next three seasons.

- Arkansas State, Louisiana Tech, Northern Illinois and Southwestern Louisiana leave the Big West. Boise State, Idaho, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo and North Texas join the league, giving it 9 members.

1997
- Independent East Carolina joins Conference USA as its seventh member

- Division I-AA member Marshall and independent Northern Illinois join the MAC, giving that conference 12 teams which then splits into divisions and forms a conference championship game

1998
- Independent Army joins Conference USA as its eighth member

1999
- Air Force, Brigham Young, Colorado State, New Mexico, San Diego State, UNLV, Utah and Wyoming leave the 16-team WAC and form the 8-team Mountain West Conference, leaving the WAC with the remaining 8 teams

- Independent Alabama-Birmingham joins Conference USA as its 9th member

- Division I-AA Buffalo joins the MAC as its 13th member

2000
- Big West member Nevada joins the WAC as its 9th member, leaving the Big West with 9 football playing teams

2001
- Four former Big West programs (Arkansas State, Idaho, New Mexico State and North Texas) and three independents (Louisiana-Lafayette, Louisiana-Monroe and Middle Tennessee State) form the 7-team Sun Belt Conference

- WAC member Texas Christian leaves to join Conference USA as its 10th member

- Big West member Boise State and independent Louisiana Tech join the WAC to give that conference 10 members.

- The Big West is decimated with only three remaining football playing schools. The league stopped sponsoring football as a conference sport.

2002
- Independent Central Florida joins the MAC as its 14th member

2003
- Independent South Florida joins Conference USA as its 11th member

- Independent Utah State joins the Sun Belt as its 8th member

2004
- Miami and Virginia Tech leave the Big East to join the ACC, giving the ACC 11 members

- Independent Connecticut joins the Big East while Temple is voted out of the Big East, leaving that conference with six members

- Independent Troy State joins the Sun Belt as its 9th member

2005
- The ACC completes its "raid" of the Big East as Boston College leaves to join the ACC, giving that league its 12th team. The ACC then sets up divisions and its own conference championship game

- The Big East completes its makeover by adding Cincinnati, Louisville and South Florida from Conference USA to reach eight members

- Army leaves the Conference USA to become an independent, joining Temple who enters the same status.

- Texas Christian leaves Conference USA to join the Mountain West, giving that league 9 members

- Conference USA adds Central Florida and Marshall from the MAC and Rice, Southern Methodist, UTEP and Tulsa from the WAC, giving C-USA 12 members. C-USA then splits into divisions and starts a conference championship game

- The WAC adds Idaho, New Mexico State, and Utah State from the Sun Belt to reach 9 members

- Division I-AA members Florida Atlantic and Florida International join the Sun Belt to give that league eight members

- The MAC is left with 12 members

2007
- Independent Temple joins the MAC as its 13th member

2009
- Division I-AA member Western Kentucky joins the Sun Belt as its 9th member

2011
- Nebraska leaves the Big 12 for the Big Ten, giving that league 12 members. The Big Ten then splits into divisions and will hold its own conference championship game

- Colorado leaves the Big 12 for the Pac-10. Utah leaves the Mountain West for the Pac-10. The Pac-10 rebrands itself as the Pac-12 and split into divisions and will also hold a conference championship game

- The Big 12 now standing at 10-members, consolidates back into one division and does away with its league title game.

- Brigham Young leaves the Mountain West to become an independent

- Boise State leaves the WAC to join the Mountain West, giving that league 8 teams. The WAC is also left with 8 teams.

2012
- Texas Christian will leave the Mountain West to join the Big East as its 9th member.

- Fresno State, Nevada and Hawaii (football only) will leave the WAC to join the Mountain West, giving that league 10 members

- Denver (non-football), Texas-San Antonio, and Texas State will join the WAC to give that league 8 members

- Division I-AA member Massachusetts will join the MAC as a football-only member to give the MAC 14 teams
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Re: College Football V: Bowls Are Done; Carry On My Wayward Sons

So the interim coach at Ohio State says he saw NOTHING in the previous 10 years at the school and suspected nothing untoward was going on. Is he Sgt. Schultz or Stevie Wonder?
 
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Priceless said:
So the interim coach at Ohio State says he saw NOTHING in the previous 10 years at the school and suspected nothing untoward was going on. Is he Sgt. Schultz or Stevie Wonder?
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We've always been at war with Eastasia. :)
 
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Priceless said:
So the interim coach at Ohio State says he saw NOTHING in the previous 10 years at the school and suspected nothing untoward was going on. Is he Sgt. Schultz or Stevie Wonder?
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Well, he's probably in it as deep as anybody else there. The less he says about it, the better his chances are, slim as they might be, that he gets to keep the job full time.
 
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bigmrg74 said:
Well, he's probably in it as deep as anybody else there. The less he says about it, the better his chances are, slim as they might be, that he gets to keep the job full time.
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Plausible Deniability. If nobody can find a document with your name on it, then you can always say (a) you were shocked, SHOCKED, by the relevations of the investigation or (b) it was the other guy's fault.
 
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Penn State and Pitt to renew their long-standing rivalry.

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., June 14, 2011 - One of the nation's fiercest football rivalries is set to be renewed, as old rivals Penn State and Pittsburgh will meet again on the gridiron in 2016 and 2017.

Tim Curley, Penn State Director of Athletics, and Steve Pederson, Pitt Director of Athletics, made the announcement today that the long-time rivals are scheduled to meet September 10, 2016 in Pittsburgh and September 16, 2017 in Beaver Stadium.
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Bob Gray said:
Good to see. I'm not particularly interested in either program, but rivalries are the lifeblood of college football.
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That means two teams with decent records might play an OOC game against each other! Alert the BCS!!!
 
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French Rage said:
That means two teams with decent records might play an OOC game against each other! Alert the BCS!!!
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Unfortunately the BCS system discourages such games, part of the reason so many teams dodge them (yes, SEC I'm making an inference to you, though you've made baby steps of improvement).
 
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I'm kind of surprised they haven't looked at adding SoS back in. It's the easiest way to keep Boise State down even if the humans vote them to #5 all year long.
 
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http://www.freep.com/article/201106...ing-mascot?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE

One thing that makes Michigan pretty unique is its lack of a mascot roaming the sidelines. In-state rival Michigan State has Sparty, one of the most recognizable characters in college athletics. But there's nothing in Ann Arbor.

For now.

U-M athletic director Dave Brandon, who has bitten off quite a bit during his year and a half in office, told the U-M online magazine michigantoday.umich.edu that the university might not be mascotless forever.

"We're interested in doing a mascot but it has to be something that fans love, that children love and everyone can embrace," Brandon said. "So far, we haven't figured out a way to do it. Until we come up with something we love, we don't have a mascot.
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HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Michigan fans are going to *hate* this.
 
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bronconick said:
http://www.freep.com/article/201106...ing-mascot?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
HAHAHAHAHAHA.

Michigan fans are going to *hate* this.
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The early front-runner: http://www.flickr.com/photos/57007444@N06/5258275576/in/set-72157625590938448/

It was probably only a matter of time before Michigan started giving in to that sort of thing, but it's still pretty awful.

Of course it isn't this awful: http://www.theonlycolors.com/2011/6/17/2228922/point-of-order
 
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bronconick said:
http://www.freep.com/article/201106...ing-mascot?odyssey=tab|topnews|text|FRONTPAGE
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