The Conference You Hate the Most?

I seriously hate the WAC or the Mountain West Conference as it is currently called for the sole reason that they cost me more money in college betting on games than any other conference. When the over under is set at 86, and you bet the under, its supposed to hit!!!
 
ASimPerson said:
Yes, but for the most important game the implications aren't really that great.

What happens if Oklahoma loses this weekend? Texas will go to the title game instead. So what's the point of the the title game in that instance other than to make money?
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The Big 12 situation is an anomaly this year, so it's not the greatest example. If you look at the Big 10, you could end up having Co-Champions because Wisconsin doesn't play Ohio State that year, and they both finish with one loss in conference. Then the Rose Bowl spot is given to the higher ranked team in all likelyhood. At the same time, Tech doesn't play f$u in a given year, and they both finish with one conference loss. However, because of the ACC Championship game, Tech plays f$u, and the Orange Bowl spot is determined on the field. That's what I have a problem with.
 
GTSaxophone said:
With the implications they have on the bowl season, they are more than just some cash grab. If BCS bowls are determined by winning a conference, then the way to win a conference should be standard across the board.

I personally hate the Big Ten and Pac-10 for having their head stuck up tradition's ass. They're one of the biggest road blocks to getting a playoff because they think it's still the 1920's, and the Rose Bowl is the greatest thing on Earth. They pitch a fit at anything that would threaten their bowl tie-in.
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True!

From a personal standpoint, I don't like the SEC because we experience the arrogance up close.

Yet, the SEC wanted to go to a +1 BCS format which would be the first baby step toward a playoff. The PAC-10 and Big 10 blocked it.

I suspect the reason is those top heavy conferences would be exposed in a playoff or +1 format.
 
Beestorm said:
hands down its the Big 10.. chock full of overated, over-press covered, pretenders every year..
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+1

Back in the late 90s they invited Notre Dame to join. ND declined. The Big 10 fans had a real stick up their arse about ND not joining. After all, membership in the Big 10 is teh greatest honor an athletic program could ever receive.
 
The Big East is my least favorite. It's traditionally the weakest of the "Big" conferences.
 
GTSaxophone said:
The Big 12 situation is an anomaly this year, so it's not the greatest example. If you look at the Big 10, you could end up having Co-Champions because Wisconsin doesn't play Ohio State that year, and they both finish with one loss in conference. Then the Rose Bowl spot is given to the higher ranked team in all likelyhood. At the same time, Tech doesn't play f$u in a given year, and they both finish with one conference loss. However, because of the ACC Championship game, Tech plays f$u, and the Orange Bowl spot is determined on the field. That's what I have a problem with.
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GTSax, it may be anomaly, but it happened similarly last year. Mizzou beat Kansas last year and won the Big12 North -- went to face Oklahoma in the Big12 championship game and lost there. Kansas went to a BCS game, and Mizzou went to the Cotton Bowl. So similar anomaly could happen 2 years in a row -- that is a little too frequent for anomalies, I believe.
 
Big Hidden Eleven is by far the worst. I may hate many of the teams in the SEC, but I wholeheartedly endorse the idea that a college football Saturday should three shots past Tijuana crazy. You can call them rednecks and whackos, because they are, but you can never call them boring. The Big Ten is just a handful of old, stodgy stuck up jackasses stuck in the 1950s, and some poor also rans for them to snack on.

The Big Ten is the football equivalent of the Greek version on Hell. It's gloomy, it's dismal, and the football looks like two retarded elephants bumping uglies for three hours.
 
PAC 10 with the Big 10 a close second.

I really have an extreme distaste (kind words) for USC and how they believe they are God in football pads.

For Big 10, I know that everyone in GA wants to watch the power house games of Iowa State and Minnesota at 12:30 on Saturday (if GT isn't playing. ;) )
 
SEC, Big-10, then the Big 12.

SEC because of the fans mostly.
Big-10 because of Ohio State and the love fest for them from voters.
Big-12 for the love fest form voters as well. They have good teams no doubt, but sometimes it's a little much the way they are talked up.
 
BarrelORum said:
I seriously hate the WAC or the Mountain West Conference as it is currently called for the sole reason that they cost me more money in college betting on games than any other conference. When the over under is set at 86, and you bet the under, its supposed to hit!!!
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I lost all my money on the Braves in the 99 World Series. No football conference can even begin to touch what games 3-5 of that series did to my $.

Re: the original question, the ACC is at the top of my list.
1. Not a fan of the Tobacco Road elitism
2. Va Tech and Miami make me want to puke (They are a more realistic version of the way people describe SEC schools. Football first, truly crappy academics, and at least the SEC schools have serious female talent.)
3. Football and basketball officiating have been an absolute joke too many times in the past few years.
 
BuzzMD said:
GTSax, it may be anomaly, but it happened similarly last year. Mizzou beat Kansas last year and won the Big12 North -- went to face Oklahoma in the Big12 championship game and lost there. Kansas went to a BCS game, and Mizzou went to the Cotton Bowl. So similar anomaly could happen 2 years in a row -- that is a little too frequent for anomalies, I believe.
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The Kansas/Mizzou deal last year was no fault of the conference championship game. That system worked just as it should. Mizzou beat Kansas, they went to the game. The item that failed was the BCS bids. Mizzou had two losses, but they were to the same team, and one was in an extra game. In my eyes, Mizzou had a better resume than Kansas plus the head to head win, so they should have gotten picked for a BCS bowl.
 
chilidogking said:
I lost all my money on the Braves in the 99 World Series. No football conference can even begin to touch what games 3-5 of that series did to my $.
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Maybe you mean 1996? 1999 didn't make it to 5 games, and if you bet against that 1999 Yankees team you got what was coming to you, unfortunately.
 
Beestorm said:
hands down its the Big 10.. chock full of overated, over-press covered, pretenders every year..
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cosine

I've never liked the Big 10+1... but it's compounded now that I'm West of the Mississippi River. Thanks to regional TV bias, Big 10+1 games end up pre-empting the games I really want to watch.
 
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