But somewhere along the line you got soft. You forgot that when LSU won a national championship, it meant you didn’t. When the last week of October arrives this season, a little less hatred is felt in Jacksonville because this was the same team you cheered for to spank Hawaii last year.
You also forgot the Big 12, who won or shared four championships between 1994 and 2000. They eventually fell off.
You also forgot the ACC, your most recent predecessor to the best conference throne.
The same ACC that was proclaimed to have formed the greatest conference ever five years ago when they added Miami (who had won three of their last four BCS games), Virginia Tech, and B.C. (which hasn’t won a BCS game since the merger).
Your reign of supremacy only lasts so long.
What’s going to happen when you play an undefeated team in November that is BCS Championship bound if they win, but your team, Gators’ fans, is already 7-3 and out of that race?
Do you hope your team loses so your conference gets a representative in the BCS title game? Are you sure about that answer? The longer CSC takes hold, could you see that as a possibility?
I can.
I can see a dumbing down effect. Interstate and interconference hatred that has been a long-standing tradition now turns to merely interconference dislike, and then interconference angst, and then just mild irritation with burning.
It will happen. Let CSC take hold for another few years and I promise you, you will learn and love the lyrics to Rocky Top, if only for one game in January.
You've done this.
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