Excessive celebration over a few championships has brought us here.  What do we have left if on a fall Saturday in October you can’t watch Tennessee and laugh as they get pummeled by Notre Dame like they did in 2005?

What happens if I, an Ohio State diehard, can’t enjoy a good drubbing of M*ch*g*n at the hand of another, even if it’s a D-IAA school?

Or if Texas fans can’t enjoy last season’s embarrassment in Lincoln? I ask you men, what has happened to us?

The Conference Superiority Complex must go. From this day forward everyone must commit to getting back to our ideals of team and self, not league. I was just as guilty as anyone of this.

However,  I will no longer quote the Big Ten’s bowl record against the SEC as 14-12 over the past 10 seasons because some of those games gave M*ch*g*n a win. That disgusts me.

I will no longer argue about how weak of a schedule (insert Pac-10 team A) has when I could just as easily make fun of Wisconsin for scheduling Cal-Poly this season.

I will no longer try to cheer for the Big Ten against other teams because it’s much, much funnier to laugh at them for losing to teams like Western Michigan (Iowa), San Jose State (Illinois), Louisiana Tech (Michigan State), or Appalachian State (we all know this one). 

I will no longer argue the merits of Ron Zook’s coaching abilities prior to a game against USC.

I will no longer care if the Big Ten posts a losing bowl record. I won’t care, as long as Ohio State wins. This is all that should matter to us, our team winning.

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