It seems like every season, the same college football teams get hyped without ever producing.
These mediocre squads show some flashes early in the season, then fade faster than Ben Grieve—remember him?—when the schedule gets tough.
Here’s a list of the most frequent offenders...
Purdue
How does Joe Tiller still have his job?
Tiller's record against ranked teams is atrocious. Since 2003, he's 0-17 against the Top 25.
The Boilermakers annually bust through a nonconference schedule that’s weaker than their cheerleaders, then get smacked around like Paris Hilton should as soon as they run into teams with winning records.
Do me a favor, pollsters—do not rank Purdue next year until they beat a good team.
Clemson
A contract extension for Tommy Bowden? For what, exactly?
Has he won the ACC championship?
Uh, no.
Oh, well he's at least won his division, right?
Nope.
So what has Bowden done to warrant his new deal?
Oh yeah, he has gone a blistering 60-38 since taking the helm at Clemson. Everyone bow down!
He has won some enormous, life-altering bowl games too: the Humanitarian Bowl, the Peach Bowl, and the all-important Champs Sports Bowl.
Let’s not mention that he lost the gauntlet known as the Music City Bowl last season, or the minefield known as the Tangerine Bowl back in 2002.
Let’s just focus on the positives. Oh, wait...
Georgia
Why do I have the Bulldogs on this list? They were in the national title talk this season, weren't they?
Georgia is here because Mark Richt’s boys seem to begin every season in or near the Top 10. Until they stop choking in the games that matter—such as their complete trouncing at the hands of Erik Ainge—and get to a BCS Title game, they belong on the list. I know they have won a lot of games over the past ten seasons. I know about 2002. But guess what, Georgia always chokes.
Virginia Tech
Wait, the Hokies finished third in the polls and made a BCS game, didn’t they?
Yes, they sure did—but they also got dusted 48-7 by LSU in a "premier Top-10 matchup" early in the season.
The fact is, the Hokies start in the Top 10 pretty much every single season. Their best finish in the post-Mike Vick era?
Sixth.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Colt Brennan - 131 touchdown passes, 20 NCAA records, only undefeated team in America. Who else can say that? How can he not win the Heisman?
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manny rodriguez about 1 year ago
Jux Berg is a B1? homer. Three of his "mediocre" teams are in the ACC. Give me a break. He should just look at his favorite conference and realize that Big 1?'s representative to the Rose Bowl is going to get spanked by USC. Book it.
But don't take my word for it. Lets put it to the test. Why don't we start a Big 1? / ACC football challenge similar to basketball. Oh yeah, the Big 1? has never beat the ACC in the basketball challenge. 0 in 9 years.
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Dr P about 1 year ago
Bulldog's town paper, Macon Telegraph's columnist, Travis Fain had something to say about Brennan, too "........I want Colt Brennan's head on a stick. I want that pretty boy Hawaii quarterback driven through the Superdome turf. I want perfection in all phases of the game this New Year's Day.
Destroy Hawaii. And then let this be known across the land: The Georgia Bulldogs will be staying in the national title conversation for many years to come."
Doesn't unnecessary trash talk like that comes from insecurities & a small peepee ...and he's obviously not as pretty as the Southern California surfer boy who doubles as Hawaii's QB.
Teams returning are OSU, LSU & USC... Mediocrity and inconsistency throughout the season! Must say, lots of money must have been lost this football season!
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
"These five schools did exactly what they always do"
Umm, Georgia and Virginia Tech made the BCS. If they always did that...umm, they'd be like Ohio State and USC.
And, for the record, Va. Tech was preseason #9 and is now #3. Georgia was preseason #13 and is now #5. I don't see how that can possibly be construed as underacheiving.
Hell, BC and Clemson weren't even ranked in the preseason! Now they're #14 and #15. This "article" is just lunacy and stupidity. Some site you guys have here...what a joke.
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brett roberts about 1 year ago
there is only two teams in NCAA division 1 that have one ten games or more four straight seasons, that is USC and Virginia tech. If VT is overrated then how could this be possible? You may site that the ACC is a weak conferance, but how about the the WAC conference (mighty Idaho at the helm) or Even the big 10 Ohio state plays every college in Ohio weak non conference play and STill couldnt beat all these pathetic teams (im just saying if their going to the national championship they should have ran their conference and not lose to illinois). I agree this is very ignorant sports righting, NOTRE DAME IS EVEN ON THIS LIST, BUT 10-1 TEAMS ARE HAHAHA YOUR A GENIOUS
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Travis Fain had something to say about Brennan, too "........I want Colt Brennan's head on a stick. I want that pretty boy Hawaii quarterback driven through the Superdome turf. I want perfection in all phases of the game this New Year's Day.
Travis Fain thinks Colt is a "pretty boy"? when did Travis come out of the closet?
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Andrew Rosin about 1 year ago
The Wisconsin Badgers wish to speak with this post about mediocrity.
2000: 9-4 overall; 4-4 Big Ten (T-5th)
2001: 5-7 overall; 3-5 Big Ten (T-8th)
2002: 8-6 overall; 2-6 Big Ten (T-8th)
2003: 7-6 overall; 4-4 Big Ten (T-7th)
2004: 9-3 overall; 6-2 Big Ten (3rd)
2005: 10-3 overall; 5-3 Big Ten (T-3rd)
2006: 12-1 overall; 7-1 Big Ten (T-2nd)
2007: 9-3 overall; 5-3 Big Ten (T-4th)
2000 Sun Bowl: Wisconsin 21 UCLA 20
2002 Alamo Bowl: Wisconsin 31 Colorado 28
2003 Music City Bowl: Auburn 28 Wisconsin 14
2004 Outback Bowl: Georgia 24 Wisconsin 21
2005 Capital One Bowl: Wisconsin 24 Auburn 10
2006 Capital One Bowl: Wisconsin 17 Arkansas 14
2007- Outback Bowl: Wisconsin vs. Tennessee
HOW DARE YOU UNDERRATE THEM!
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Lems Poker Fritz about 1 year ago
the point was that uga and va tech are always ranked high, but can never get to the title game- i mean if you start 10 straight damn years in the top 10 or near it, you would think at least ONCE you could make it
as for clemson and bc... win the conference sometime ya know? look at the boring dumb bowl games they go to year in and year out.... thats called mediocrity... so basically, they did what they always do... end up in non-bcs bowl games... clemson had its best year in a long time this season, and still didnt even MAKE the conf champ. game - that is a huge pile of mediocrity buddy
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Worst. Post. Ever. I'll give you Purdue and Clemson, but the rest . . . what?
BC was unranked preseason, won their division, made the ACC Title game, and finished #14 in the final BCS standings. Mediocre? The reason they're going to Champs bowl (and generally go to second-rate bowls each year) has nothing to do with the quality of the team, it's all about fan travel. They got passed over by the Peach and Gator for Clemson (ahem) and Virginia . . . 2 teams they finished ahead of during the regular season (and in the case of Clemson, beat head-to-head on the road).
VT finished #3 in the final BCS standings--one spot away from the title game, and higher than where they started the year. Sure, they got waxed by LSU, but mediocre season? And you consider finishing no higher than 6th in the nation the past 5-6 years mediocre?
Georgia--BCS. This is mediocre? Get a clue . . .
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Worst. Post. Ever. I'll give you Purdue and Clemson, but the rest . . . what?
BC was unranked preseason, won their division, made the ACC Title game, and finished #14 in the final BCS standings. Mediocre? The reason they're going to Champs bowl (and generally go to second-rate bowls each year) has nothing to do with the quality of the team, it's all about fan travel. They got passed over by the Peach and Gator for Clemson (ahem) and Virginia . . . 2 teams they finished ahead of during the regular season (and in the case of Clemson, beat head-to-head on the road).
VT finished #3 in the final BCS standings--one spot away from the title game, and higher than where they started the year. Sure, they got waxed by LSU, but mediocre season? And you consider finishing no higher than 6th in the nation the past 5-6 years mediocre?
Georgia--BCS. This is mediocre? Get a clue . . .
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Michigan State would have a unique position in this list. Before the season, everyone thinks they will finish in the bottom half of the big ten. Then they beat all the patsies and a highly overrated Notre Dame Team. This drastically raises expectations, then they lose most of their big ten games, ... and finish in the bottom half of the big ten.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
It would help your credibility a lot if you actually knew the names of teams you're writing about. It's the BC Eagles. No Golden. You must have watched BC a lot this year to have formed such an educated opinion.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
So Ainge throws a couple of awful picks in the SEC title game and all the sudden it became embarrassing to have lost a game to him? The guy was and is a pretty good quarterback, perhaps Georgia's loss to 6-6 South Carolina (and Blake Mitchell) would have been a better example...
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Smith J. Howard about 1 year ago
Yeah, Jux...I don't really agree with VT or UGA. I don't really know of many people who expected Georgia as a title condender this year with a true sophomore qb and two starting freshman on the o-line. Not to mention, no one knew who Knowshon Moreno was much less figured him into the equation. All in all, they did alright. No coach in their right mind would want to play this squad next year.
VT, on the other hand *did* get dismantled at LSU as you mentioned. But you said it yourself - their best finish in the post mike vick era is 6th. so then, what makes 3rd so bad?
You said, "It seems like every season, the same college football teams get hyped without ever producing."
I wouldn't condider Clemson, Purdue, and BC strong teams that annually get hyped, so here's my 2007 list of "title pretenders".
Remember back to preseason...these teams were recieving a lot of talk:
Notre Dame
Michigan
Texas
Florida State
Alabama
Lousiville
Cal
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Jux Berg about 1 year ago
I think I need to clear up a few things here:
1) BC and Clemson: first, the editor put "Golden" Eagles - and yes I realize these teams started the season unranked... but my point is this: These teams NEVER do anything important. Yes, BC won their division (aided by a gift victory against Va Tech on a horribly muffed onside kick) this season... and yes, Clemson finished strong... but traditionally these teams never factor into the title picture, and this year is no different. One of them moved up to #2, and I believe Clemson was ranked 13th earlier in the season before getting stuffed by GEORGIA TECH.
The point is... yet ANOTHER season where neither team did jack shit.
2) Georgia: I agree, they had a great season, and finished in the Top 5 in the BCS and all that (due to the human voters mostly)... Vanderbilt, VANDERBILT, had em beat by the way... but yeah, good season, good finish - but still, as usual, ranked pretty high in the preseason (which gives you an edge in the title picture) and AGAIN, no title game. Granted, they did better than people thought.. but this seems to be the best this program can do - so if the argument is which one of these 5 teams "could" be removed from this list, I'll give you them... but they are habitual chokers
3) Va Tech... yes, they finished #3 for some crazy reason - first of all, winning the ACC should not get you more votes than the Big 12 by any means... Va Tech's computer ranking probably got helped by the fact that they PLAYED LSU. Face it though, they did well and all... but AGAIN, no title game when starting in the Top 10. Thats my point.
If you get the chance to START Top 10 or close to it for like 10 straight years, you have to make at least ONE title game to prove something.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
This guy has NO CREDIBILITY!
UGA has won 2 SEC titles in the last 5 years. They finished 13-1 in 2002, it takes not only a good season, but a little bit of luck to win the NC. In 70%+ of the seasons a 13-1 season will win it all, it just so happens that year there were 2 unbeatens in UM and OSU.
They have won 10+ games in 5 of the last 6 years, finished in the Top 10 5 of 6 years and have the most wins in the SEC over the last 6 years, and last 11 years. UGA is the ONLY SEC team to finish in the Top 25 for the last 10 straight years. UGA is 25 - 4 on the road under Richt (going 9-2 against ranked teams on the road), 6-4 against top 10 teams under Richt.
Here are the top 3 from 2002 - 2007:
UGA 63 - 15
LSU 62 - 16
AU 57 - 18
Here are the top 3 from 1997 - 2007:
UGA 106-32
UF 103-35
UT 103-36
Yeah, mediocre is the first thing that came to my mind too.
Get a clue SUX BERG!
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Jux Berg about 1 year ago
I digress. Good facts and information on that. As I said, Georgia could possibly come off the list if I had to choose one. I stand corrected.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Have you seen my weiner?
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Ron Johnson about 1 year ago
good call, man. Some true statements
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
This post makes me embarrassed for humanity, that it continues to churn out such stupid, stupid people after all of these years of natural selection. You'd think they'd have been weeded out of the gene pool by now, but obviously not.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Here s a list of teams from each BCS conference that, to me, seem to consistently define mediocre. They re not perennial conference cellar dwellers, and sometimes they ll wind up with a top 25 finish. In a wacky season they might even win their conference. But for the most part, they re going to disappoint when they re a preseason top 25 and rarely make it to a New Year s Day bowl.
This list is purely my opinion. These are the names I d blurt out if I was playing that game where I had to say the first thing that came to mind: Mediocre Big 12 team! This isn t based on stats, but I d guess I could find some if I had to justify these choices.
Big 10: Purdue
Big 12: Oklahoma State
ACC: Clemson
SEC: South Carolina
Pac 10: Oregon State
Big East: Syracuse
Now, please tell me what a stupid, uneducated, cross-eyed hick I am for insulting your favorite program.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
How about Michigan you Gay 10 Homer!
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Dominic Kopek about 1 year ago
i was gonna say something but looks like everyone already ripped you apart. Well brave article but sorry. Look at comment above they were ranked 5 at the beginning of the season and finished outside the top 25.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Colt Brennan - 131 touchdown passes, 23 NCAA records, only undefeated team in America. Who else can say that? How can Colt Brennan not win the Heisman? If you are skeptical, I challenge you to watch last week's Hawaii Vs Washington. Colt is incredible. You might become a believer.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
classy.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
the above word was directed toward rod munch
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
I don't understand how consistently finishing among the top 10 programs in the nation is mediocre.
Oh, fyi, there's 2 teams in the nation to have won 10 or more games in each of the last 4 seasons. One is USC.
The other is Virginia Tech.
Get a clue.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Who else can say that? A bunch of high school quarterbacks. Because they also play against high school level competition.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Uh good job, Jeff Bohnke -VT has played in the title game, in 2000 against FSU. But don't let facts get in your way.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Jeff Bohnke and blog author. I know you want to dismiss the Vick years but VT DID in fact play in the BCS TITLE Game in 1999 (game date was in 2000) - since this is the ultimate measure of accomplishment, according to you two, I thought you'd want to know.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
LOL. Opinions are like assholes. And sometimes assholes have opinions. Sometimes those assholes are clueless to boot. It's a perfect storm of idiocy. Thanks for the laugh!
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Thanks for wasting my time....
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
what a piece of shit this column is.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Jeff, who played in the BCS Title game in Jan. 2000? Dumb ass...
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
"the point was that uga and va tech are always ranked high, but can never get to the title game" - Lems Poker
"but AGAIN, no title game" - Jux
"Good job Virginia Tech, and how many BCS Title games have you played for??? ZERO" - Jeff Bohnke
Jesus Christ, you guys are morons.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
No wonder that I've never heard of this guy
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
what the hell is the bleacherrport anyway? why am i on this site? i guess any asshole with dream weaver and credit card can make a college football website.
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Nunya Biz about 1 year ago
Could be the worst piece of shit "college football" article in the history of the internet.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
I'm glad we didn't make the list... i guess we're on the absolute-shit-ass-piss-poor-bottom-of-the-barrell list.
- Charlie Weis
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Jeff Bohnke.....living life with his head up his ass. Go back and check who played in the BCS TITLE GAME on January 4, 2000. That's right, it was Virginia Tech. And now they are in their third BCS bowl in 9 years, all of which have come as a result of winning a conference championship. And, for the record, it should have been 4 bids because VT was jobbed by the crybaby PAC10 commish in 2000-01. It should have been VT steamrolling ND in Tempe instead of Oregon St.
It must suck to be you, going through life with such a small brain.
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Jamie Lawson about 1 year ago
I can see Sports Illustrated asking this douchebag for his resume any day now. Why don't you choose some teams that aren't in BCS bowl games when you are compiling a list of "mediocre" teams you dumbshit. And here's how great the Big 10 is: Appalachian State, Duke hasn't won an ACC game since 2004 and won one game this year...AT Northwestern, Northwestern won 3 of their conference games, ACC pisses on the Big 10 every year in the basketball challenge like you are R-Kelly's niece, go do the world a favor and end this site and jump off one of your collapsing bridges.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Bohnke, you never said post vick era in your last message dipshit, so don't use word like ever or never if you meant something else dickhead. Dumbass Jux said "but AGAIN, no title game when starting in the Top 10. Thats my point. If you get the chance to START Top 10 or close to it for like 10 straight years, you have to make at least ONE title game to prove something. "
Dumbass Lems Poker- ". . .but can never get to the title game- i mean if you start 10 straight damn years in the top 10 or near it, you would think at least ONCE you could make it"
Before you start writing shitty articles at least have your facts straights. Anyone with a gay ass picture like Jux's should not be anywhere near a football column anyway. Rod "I love to Munch dick" is just a plain and simple moron.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
I love the "post Vick-era" stuff about VT... like the 2 years with Vick shouldn't count.
Jux also made a comment to a BC fan about how lucky they were to win against VT and then said in the same post that VT sucks because they didn't make the championship game. Hey dumbass, either the victory counts for BC or it counts for VT. If VT recovered that onside kick, they'd be playing for the Championship. Even without it, VT will be the first team to be ranked #1 by the computers and not play for the championship since the BCS was adopted.
And take a look at some past preseason polls before you claim that VT is "always ranked in the top 10" before the season. That's just a ridiculous statement. 03, 05, 07 right around 10th. 01, 02, 04, 06, not even close.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
This guy makes Lou Holtz look like a genius
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Lou Holtz about 1 year ago
Demsh fightingsh wordsh
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Sam G about 1 year ago
Here s a list of teams from each BCS conference that, to me, seem to consistently define mediocre. They re not perennial conference cellar dwellers, and sometimes they ll wind up with a top 25 finish. In a wacky season they might even win their conference. But for the most part, they re going to disappoint when they re a preseason top 25 and rarely make it to a New Year s Day bowl.
This list is purely my opinion. These are the names I d blurt out if I was playing that game where I had to say the first thing that came to mind: Mediocre Big 12 team! This isn t based on stats, but I d guess I could find some if I had to justify these choices.
Big 10: Purdue
Big 12: Oklahoma State
ACC: Clemson
SEC: South Carolina
Pac 10: Oregon State
Big East: Syracuse
Now, please tell me what a stupid, uneducated, cross-eyed hick I am for insulting your favorite program.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Sam, your post was just as stupid 18 hours ago.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
"And take a look at some past preseason polls before you claim that VT is "always ranked in the top 10" before the season. That's just a ridiculous statement. 03, 05, 07 right around 10th. 01, 02, 04, 06, not even close."
Exactly right, how can this guy get his facts completely wrong, a couple of those years VT wasn't even ranked in the TOP 25! We've never been in the top 5.
Jux at least admit you were wrong about VT, save some small bit of credibility in this article.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
this is the dumbest thing ever. Georgia and VT are in the BCS. The only reason BC isnt going to a better bowl isnt because the team is mediocre, but because they dont travel well so the Chick-Fil-a bowl passed over them for Clemson. And they arent the GOLDEN eagles. Marquette is the Golden Eagles, BC is just the eagles. for the sake of all of us, please stop writing for the public.
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Zander Freund about 1 year ago
To clarify: one of our editors changed "Eagles" to "Golden Eagles." It was our mistake Jux had it right.
My apologies for the error,
Zander Freund
Content and Community Director
Bleacher Report Team
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Some of the posts are here are about as dumb as the writer of the article. What a waste of bandwidth and 10 minutes!
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Anybody who thinks that the measuring stick in college football is getting to the national championship game needs to stop writing about college football right now, because they know nothing about the sport. The measuring stick is, was and always will be winning your conference. Something the Hokies have now done in 2 of the last 4 years. But according to this numbnuts, since they haven't been selected by the BCS to appear in the national championship game (and under the arbitrary "post-Vick era" constraints), they have failed. Seriously, drop off your college football writing credentials, you have lost them permanently.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
This guy is an idiot.
Only 2 teams play for the NC every year; guess that means 117 teams are mediocre.
By the way, have the balls to say who YOUR team is. Have they ever won the championship?
Someone below put up Georgia's stats which show that this was bunk. Here's VA TECHS:
15 Straight years going to a bowl
4th Straight year with a 10 win season (only USC can claim as much)
2 ACC titles in 4 years (with one other ACCCG appearance) in the conference
3 Big East Titles (95, 96 and 99)
Leads the nation in INTs since 2000
Leads the nation in non-offensive TDs since 2000
Leads the nation in kicks blocked (total stats)
Top ranked D the last 2 years (top 5 in 5 of the last 8)
Played in the NC game in 99
See the post below: Only started out ranked in the top 10 (right around 10) in 03, 05 and 07
VT got jobbed this year. The first time in the BCS that the team that finished #1 in the computers is not playing for the title.
Yeah, we got beat (big) at LSU (AT LSU, AT NIGHT) in the SECOND WEEK of the season! VT is a different team now.
Hardly mediocre.
Here is your should be list:
Michigan
Notre Dame
Cal
Tennessee (if your gonna pick UGa)
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
I would like to state that everyone in here that does not enjoy this article, obviously enjoys the sound of balls slapping against their ass cheeks instead.
That is all.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
If the goal of this article was to show how much of an assclown you are, then congrats! Clearly you have a very limited football IQ . Time for you to start blogging about professional wrestling you donkey!
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Damn, did Jux eat your babies and hucklebuck your sisters?
The point isn t that these teams suck, these teams are all good to great teams year in and year out. Mediocre results have to be determined by where you start. When you consistently start ranked in the polls, especially in the top 10, over several years without getting to the BCS title game doesn t that define mediocre? If your team starts outside the 25 consistently but finishes in the top 15 consistently then you have had a great run because no one expected you to do it.
While I may or may not agree with the teams chosen for this article, I m glad to see there is an author that can stimulate so many minds and turn up your emotions. You don t get this from the talking heads and bland writers of other sites/media outlets.
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Gerald Granderson about 1 year ago
I would like to state that everyone in here that does not enjoy this article, obviously enjoys the sound of balls slapping against their ass cheeks instead.
That is all.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
I think this article is mediocre.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
nobody seems to remember the ultimate chokers, West Virginia!! these guys have started the past two seasons as national champ contenders and fizzled out in the end. i know their QB was hurt, but, c'mon, losing to Pitt? falling from #2 to #11? atrocious!
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Ben Gunby about 1 year ago
You seriously need to do some research on Georgia. It's ashame people write things without bother to actually use real facts to back them up, especially when the facts say the polar opposite as to what they are claiming. Let's just see how overrated Georgia is every year
2002 Pre Season Rank 8th
Final Rank- 3rd
2003 Pre Season Rank 11th
Final Rank- 6th
2004 Pre Season Rank 3rd
Final Rank- 6th
2005 Pre Season Rank 13th
Final Rank- 10th
2006 Pre Season Rank 15th
Final Rank- 23rd
Yeah, Georgia always chokes. They always fail to live up to their pre-season hype. Seriously man, educate yourself before posting garbage.
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Ben Gunby about 1 year ago
Also, your inclusion of Boston College has a frequent offender further proves your ignorance. Would you care to remind me how many times the Eagles have opened the season in the pre-season top 25 over the past 5 or 6 years. I think the answer is ONCE. Now, how many times have they finished among the top 25? Yet you wish to say they underachieve and fail to live up to the hype? You need to either completely rewrite the intro, brush up on some basic college football info, or just plain shut-up.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
VT has started a season at or near the top ten maybe four times (max) in the last ten years. The first time was 1999, when we started around #10 and finished #2.
The problem with blogs like this is that they involve little or no research.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
My own journalistic poll: Does anybody know less about college football than Jux Berg?
Followup: Will anybody waste precious internet time on this site again.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
It's about time someone told it like it is about Boston College. They are a J-O-K-E, the biggest fraud of a 10-3 team ever. They should have lost the (first) VT and the Clemson games, so they're really 8-5. However, they struggled against UMASS (!!!) at HOME!!! That means any one of sixty or seventy 1-A teams would have beaten them that day, so you really have to consider them to be 7-6.
Now, why would we be talking about a 7-6 team as belonging in the Top Two, never mind the Top Twenty? Please. There's a reason why the bowls blow off BC. They say to them, "We know you're 10-3 or whatever, but you're a joke. You're no ten-win team--that's why your fans skip your games so they can watch coverage of the Red Sox at the Winter Meetings. Give your schedule to real teams like USC, Florida, LSU, Oklahoma, Alabama, Arizona State, Cal, Michigan, UCLA, South Carolina, Texas, Texas A&M, Ohio State, or Wisconsin. What would they do with your schedule? Each and every one of them would be 13-0 today and heading to the BCS Championship on Jan. 8. You fools, however, had the gutlessness to lose to Florida State, Maryland, Virginia Tech (twice) and say NC State. Yes, NC State, since they are #71 in the Sagarin ratings while UMass is #78, so BC would have lost to NC State the day they barely beat UMass.
See, that's the analysis the bowls go through when they decide who deserves to go to a real bowl. You have to decide which team makes sense in your bowl, in terms of reputation, selling tickets, national interest. Jux's post is awesome because he tells it like it is, and your feelings have to get over it.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Don't get worked up over this garbage. The writer clearly has a bias or is just an idiot. The big 10 is week and their teams feast off non-conference garbage to inflate their records and go to bowls (which they lose). Oh and that Ohio State "national championship" against Miami...chalk that one up to the refs. So Purdue always comes out strong and fades. That's expected.
Clemson? Well, two of their losses were to BC and VT. They almost beat BC and with VT, they just ran into a better team.
As for VT, they were never expected to be ranked as high as they are now, that's why they started the season at #9. They've overachieved and definitely aren't "mediocre". At least they had the balls to play LSU, even if they got destroyed by them at night in Death Valley. Who here really thought VT would win that game anyways? Besides, from what I recall of that week, they had to shuffle around their offensive line due to an injury to one of their guys. So it's no surprise they got waxed by LSU. Anyone who bet money on VT would've been an idiot.
And BC, they did manage to beat the Hokies in Blacksburg on a Thursday night. Aren't they like the only team who can claim doing so (on a Thursday)? Very impressive if you ask me. The Florida State game was a let-down, but let's be realistic. A "down" year for a Florida State team doesn't mean that they aren't loaded with 4 and 5 star recruits. As much as a disappointment that game was, it wasn't surprising (and yours truly picked it to happen). And look at what they were expected to do BEFORE the season started! Those high expectations came AFTER they beat VT on a prayer in Blacksburg.
And Georgia? I would hardly call them average. In fact, both Georgia and VT both have legitimate claims to playing over Ohio State in the NC game. At least Georgia and VT didn't steamroll through some weeksauce schedule. Georgia plays in the SEC and getting through that conference unscathed is almost impossible. Georgia was ranked lower to start the season. I'd have to think most Georgia fans are quite happy with their current situation.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Jeff
"POST-VICK ERA GUYS
Dumb cockriders"
If you want to exclude the accomplishments (making a BCS title game) because they were achieved with an amazing player. And discount 4 consecutive 10 win finishes. And say appearing in the top 10 means you should appear in the title game within 10 years (but apparently without an amazing player since VT was in the title game 8 years ago).
Another team to add to your list. TEXAS!!!!
You're same argument should be that Texas doesn't get to count their title a couple years ago because it was only Vince Young. And they are in the top 10 every year, and never do anything. Yeah...an occasional BCS game, but they can't do anything unless they had the best QB in the country, so we discount that.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
VT was preseason 17 in the Coaches poll in 1999 when Corso picked correctly a FSU VT title game in the preaseason.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
This article was 50% retarded! However the backlash was absolutely amazing. Never have I seen a writer on bleacher report get blasted as much as you. WOW! Keep up the good work this is freaking hilarious. At this point you have around 60 people in a lynchmob!!!!!!!! AWESOME!!!!!
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Dear Jux,
What you've just written is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever read. At no point in your rambling, incoherent article were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone is now dumber for having read it. May God have mercy on your soul.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
What Jux meant to say was:
"I personally believe, that the reason some US American Football teams don't win national titles is because they don't have maps."
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William Qualkinbush about 1 year ago
Thanks jux for completely bypassing Webster and redefining the word "mediocre".
You called out 5 teams, 3 of them from the ACC (and the top 3 teams in the ACC) and a 4th team that finished 4th in the BCS, none of whom were mentioned in the national champ talk in the preseason. Purdue is the only true mediocre team on the list.
Michigan went 8-4, a worse record than all but one of your 5 teams, but are they considered "mediocre"? Absolutely not--forget that they were in everyone's top 5 preseason and are now unranked.
Or Cal, a 6-6 former natl champ hopeful that just lost to Stanford. Or Louisville, another 6-6 team that was preseason top 10.
By your calculations, the definition of "mediocre" is "a football team from the South that is in the top 25 and doesn't get to the national championship game, and Purdue".
Congratulations...you are now considered an idiot by anyone who knows diddly about college football.
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Jux Berg about 1 year ago
Thanks everyone for all your comments! Some good, some, well, hey, everyone's entitled to their opinion.. this is America! Free speech!
Maybe I should have tossed the word mediocre because it has obviously been misconstrued. The point of this article was to call out teams who just can't get to that next level... I realize Va Tech was in the title game in 2000... but they have been pretty much an annual Top 10 team ever since, and just can't seem to get back there. I give them props for scheduling LSU.. because obviously that loss cost them the title game berth..
As for Georgia... I admit, I didnt do much research on em... so thats my bad... and I'm sure you Bulldog fans are already pissed enough and think you shoulda been in the title game this season, so of coruse youre gonna rip me on that. I appreciate it, you SHOULD call me out if I'm wrong.. I'll admit it if I am. My point with this team is that it SEEMS like y'all are in the picture year in and year out.. but for whatever reason, the title game is not within grasp. You have a good ass team.. lot of cool NFL players have come from there (except Odell... what a clown)... so if I had to do it over again, I would leave UGa off the list. Good luck vs Hawaii.
As for BC... oh my lord man. There is no argument there. That team is always mediocre. Yeah they may start unranked and crawl into the top 23 or whatever... but they never end up anywhere that "matters." Even with an NFL QB, still couldnt get it done. I won't budge on them.
Clemson.. good lord. It seems like this team kills everyone and then as soon as they crack the Top 25, they get got. Dont get me wrong, I actually like Clemson and root for them, and would love to go there to visit and nab me a sexy southern belle... but dude this team never finishes anywhere near the Top 10.
So again, thanks for commenting.. and I seriously encourage you to rip me apart when I'm wrong. I love it.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Colt Brennan - 131 touchdown passes, 23 NCAA records, led the only undefeated team in America. Who else can say that?.... Nobody. How can he not win the Heisman? If you are skeptical, I challenge you to watch last week's Hawaii vs. Washington. Colt is amazing!
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Ben Gunby about 1 year ago
You need to rewrite your intro then Jux, if you're including BC. You said this article was about teams who fail to live up to the hype. How can a team who starts the year unranked, but finishes ranked be not living up to the hype? Additionaly, how can a team who's constantly finishing in the top 25 be mediocre? By definition mediocre means average, does it not? Let's see, out of 120 teams, average would be somewhere in the 50-70 range. So yeah, top 25, top 1/6 of the entire country, yeah, that's REAL medicore.
Your NFL QB comment is a bit ridiculous and irrelevant as well. You act like having an NFL QB is your ticket to greatness. Since the BCS' inception, only once has the national champion had a quarterback who has gone on to have anything resembling success in the NFL (jury still out on Leinart). Before Texas in 2005, the last time a team won a national title with a quarterback who eventually became an "NFL QB" was I believe a Miami team in the mid to late 80s. So just merely having an NFL quarterback is a piss-poor bit of reasoning. Louisville and Kentucky have NFL quarterbacks, how'd they do this year? Better than BC? Last year Vanderbilt had an "NFL QB", did they even make a bowl? How many national titles did Michigan play for with Tom Brady leading the way? Tennessee with Peyton Manning? How about Southern Miss with Brett Favre? Did USC play for a national title with Carson Palmer? How about Syracuse with Donovan McNabb?
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Nick Benes Nick about 1 year ago
Hey BEN:
First of all, the only BEN I ever knew turned out to be a huge flaming fag. So there's strike one against you.
Second of all, quit being such a faggy fagbag. He'll call a fuckin' team mediocre if he wants to - no one wants to see you type out the fucking Merriam Webster definition of the word mediocre you cunty little fruity CUNT FAG.
Third of all, GOD DAMN you are so gay in your responses - It makes me think that you're not only sucking a dick while you type, but you're also letting another man shit all over your head and face while you type.
Fourth of all, shut the fuck up. Craigh Krenzel was a fuckin' NFL QB so shut the fuck up you douche-drinking cum-catcher.
Fifth of all, you're a QUEERASS BITCH
Sixth of all, you need to stop talking about football and go back to doing what you do best - drinking chilled shots of Amaretto and urine sprinkled with dog semen while a seven year-old girl sprays diarrhea all over you.
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Jux Berg about 1 year ago
Uh, Ben.. BC was ranked NUMBER TWO at one point this season. I'd say that's quite a bit of hype.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Wake Forest should be considered... lol.... they are talking like they will win the BCS NC next year.... talk about delusional.....
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
It's hard to find teams that do less with more than Clemson. Clemson has the facilities, the fan base, the money and the tradition to easily dominate the basketball oriented ACC, especially given the recent collapse of the programs at FSU and Miami. Clemson has the talent to make the Orange Bowl every year, but can't do any better than an undeserved Peach Bowl bid. Clemson can't beat VT, finds new ways to lose heartbreaking games to BC, and can't find the endzone of Bobby Dodd Stadium with a map, even against a GT team that isn't that good. Throw in the occasional loss to a vastly inferior team (remember Duke 2004) and it is amazing how Tommy Bowden keeps his job.
Perhaps this is because the only team that surpasses them in futility is South Carolina. Bowden is 7-2 against Clemson's archrivals, which is a large factor in his job security. The fighting chickens started out at 6-1 with a #6 ranking. Spurrier joked that this was the first Gamecock team that wouldn't go party in Five Points after becoming bowl eligible when they won their sixth game. Good thing they didn't, Steve, because the 'Cocks are home for the holidays after losing their last 5 to finish 6-6.
I don't think BC is mediocre, but they were stupid for joining the ACC. They belong in the Big East. The Southern bowl games that have ties to the ACC simply don't want BC. How bad is it? After finishing in a first place tie with FSU for the Atlantic division in 2005, BC was rewarded with...the Humanitarian Bowl??? The ACC created the "Boston College Rule" in response so that no team can "jump" another team in the bowl rotation that finished more than one game ahead of them in the standings. The Eagles still get screwed, falling all the way to the Tangerine Bowl (or whatever it's called now), after getting passed by a mediocre Virginia team and a Clemson team they beat.
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Ben Gunby about 1 year ago
That's all you've got to respond to my case? They were #2, so was just about everyone else in America, who proceeded to lose that spot. They are still ranked, and were still playing for a right to go to a BCS game. I don't know exactly what you want from a team. In college football the only goal any team can realisticaly set is to win their confrence, it's the only thing they can control, and BC played for their confrence championship. Again, you failed to explain how a top 25 team is mediocre. Perhaps your definition of the word differs from the rest of the world's.
Nick, why don't you write something that actually pertains to the discussion taking place instead of resorting to nothing but personal comments. Oh, could it be because you have no legit argument or retort to anything I said? Obviously, because the only thing you said that remotely ties in to what's being discussed was one of the dumbest comments I've ever read. What success did Krenzel have in the NFL? And you want to call me stupid, and call me names? Please pal. It must really suck to be so miserable in life that you have to resort to such antics to make yourself feel better.
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Jux Berg about 1 year ago
Yes, Ben, BC is mediocre. They are boring, they never win games that matter, and they never go to good bowl games. I would say that equals mediocre pretty hard.
By the way, you're focusing way way too much on ONE WORD dude. Just because you're in the Top 25 doesn't mean you ain't mediocre. Just show me one season in the past 20 years when the Eagles finished anywhere that ANYBODY cared about. They're irrelevant. They don't matter.
THAT'S what I mean by mediocre.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Something this dumb could only come from a Buckeye. Jux should be pistol whipped just like Florida did to "THE" Chumpeyes and what LSU will do to "THE" Luckeyes.
The positive message from your article let's the reader know that they are atleast smarter than one other person in this world. Thanks for that Jux. Now quietly rot away in "THE" state of ohio.
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Jux Berg about 1 year ago
Keep hatin' son, we love it. The Buckeyes will continue to win lots and lots of games and get lots and lots of sweet Top 10 NFL pick talent every year over and over and keep killing people all over the place.
It's nice to actually have a team who wins a ton of games for once, and of course that's gonna bring hatred - just check my article about Duke basketball I just submitted.
Buckeyes 24, LSU 20 in what the media will call a "shocker."
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Colt Brennan - 131 touchdown passes, 23 NCAA records, only undefeated team in America. Who else can say that? How did he not win the Heisman?
Disappointing. All those voters didn't watch any of Colt's games before voting. Well, when he murders Georgia, I hope they change their system... voters must watch at least the last 2 games for each of the candidate. Their vote has no credibility when they just look at stats and read news articles.
Vote fair people.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
He did not win the Heisman because football players do not wear flowers. Ever. I don't care where he's from. He looked like he was ready for the luau.
Heisman Trophy winners wear casts, folks. They do not reapply sunscreen. And they do not ever wear flowers. And certainly not to an event like this.
Perhaps that's why he didn't win.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Maybe everyone should wear a little costume so we can tell them apart. Little sombreros for the Texans, and "Speedos" for all the Florida schools. Dirty overalls for all the midwesterners - with or without little shirts depending on the school. Big green tophats for Notre Dame, stethescopes and scrubs for the Ivy League. Garden party dresses for the Carolinas.
The trophy will go to the guy with the cast. The runner-up will have a band-aid on his finger. Third place an eyepatch. Fourth place will be the one in shock about even being there.
Anyone wearing flowers should immediately report to the ballet recital in the next room.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Maybe everyone should wear a little costume so we can tell them apart. Little sombreros for the Texans, and "Speedos" for all the Florida schools. Dirty overalls for all the midwesterners - with or without little shirts depending on the school. Big green tophats for Notre Dame, stethescopes and scrubs for the Ivy League. Garden party dresses for the Carolinas.
The trophy will go to the guy with the cast. The runner-up will have a band-aid on his finger. Third place an eyepatch. Fourth place will be the one in shock about even being there.
Anyone wearing flowers should immediately report to the ballet recital in the next room.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
How many TD's did Colt have this year?
How many did Tebow have?
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Jux Berg about 1 year ago
PLEASE GET THIS COLT BRENNAN NONSENSE OFF OF THIS ARTICLE.
Get over him, he didn't deserve the Heisman one bit.
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Ben Gunby about 1 year ago
I guess your definition of mediocre really does differ from the one the rest of the world uses. So hmmm, let's see, who's in the wrong here. Your ineptitude when it comes to understanding this language is also pretty transparent. You dismiss the importance of that one word when so often ONE word makes a world of difference. Ask any speech writer or politician. In this case, your choice of wording is terrible. Mediocre, for the umpteenth time, by definition means AVERAGE in comparison to others in the same class/field. There are 120 teams that BC is compared too, and they annualy rank in the top 25. How the hell is that average? You know the root of mediocre is "med", as in "medium". Do you know what the medium, as in middle, of 120 is? Somwhere between 50 and 70. So again, BC ranks among the top 25 every year, which actually is among the top half of the top half, and yet you still claim mediocrity. I'm still waiting on an explanation. I know I'm probably not going to get it, in fact, I know I won't get it, because it's not plausible. So on either the premise of them being "mediocre", or them "underachieving" all the time and failing to live up to preseason hype, you are simply wrong on both accounts. They annualy rank well above mediocre, and annualy finish the year ranked higher than they start.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
How many other top 2 teams lost this year yet aren't considered mediocre? How only BC is penalized as being 'over-hyped' is beyond ludicrous. 'Mediocre' is different that 'under-achieving,' which is what this list really is after. Mediocre should be those teams that are always in the middle of the pack, going in and out of bowl-eligibility. How about Michigan State? Or Colorado? Or Ole Miss?
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Jux,
Your homosexuality is off the charts!
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Jux,
Your homosexuality is off the charts!
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Jux Berg about 1 year ago
Well, in summary, this article did what it was supposed to do: cause a ton of dumb Georgia, BC, and Va Tech fans to cry and whine
I would be frustrated too if my team never did shit
But luckily for me, my team is the Buckeyes.. and they've been in FIVE BCS bowl games in six years.. and the year they didn't go, they still killed Michigan and easily won their bowl game.
Beanie Wells man, Beanie Wells... ahhh, it's so nice that MY TEAM has HIM. Ahhhhh.
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Ben Gunby about 1 year ago
The Georgia fans are dumb? You're the one who completely failed to actually use any bit of fact in your ridiculous article, or most of your articles, but it's the others who do use facts that are dumb? One thing you are is humorous, because I think you actually believe what you say, which is hilarious and sad.
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Jux Berg about 1 year ago
Every team's fans besides Ohio State's are dumb as far as I'm concerned.. thats how rooting for teams works
Georgia fans had good facts, but all the facts in the world don't change the truth, which is that they still have yet to make a BCS Nat'l Championship game. End of story.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
THE Ohio state university is THE definition of mediocrity. They ran the gauntlet of Youngstown St., Kent St., and Akron while dismantling powerhouse in-conference programs like Minnesota, Purdue, Northwestern, and Michigan State. They are the Big 11's version of Hawaii. Inflated rankings and stats against .500 teams. Once again, they'll choke on a deep fried SEC dick in front of the nation in primetime, only this time it will have a cajun flavor to it.
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Jux Berg about 1 year ago
That was pretty good shit-talking, I will give you that.. Anonymous..
5 BCS games in six years (3 Title games) though... no matter how you slice THAT sure aint mediocrity
And good for LSU, who gets to play a home game again in a bowl game... so thats fun and fair, right? They havent lost in the Superdome since 1987... but they don't have Beanie Wells, they have a boring white running back with no moves. Advantage Badass-eyes
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Ben Gunby about 1 year ago
I suppose the names Keiland Williams, Trindon Holiday and Richard Murphy are foreign to you.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Gay man---------^
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Justin Sinopoli II about 1 year ago
Just wanted the 100th comment to remind everyone what a fruitbox douchebag Ben always is.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
hey jux, how did OSU do in their bcs bowl game last year? i cant remember.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Seems that Georgia started off the season being ranked from 13 to 15th. So ending the regular season ranked #4 is a true indication that they "choked". Brilliant, thorough analysis.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
Also, I'm sure you don't have an Anti-ACC bias what with Clemson, BC, and Virginia Tech all making the alleged Top Five Mediocre teams in all the country.
It's also interesting that the "mediocrity" of those three teams results directly from match-ups with the other two. We ended VT's national aspirations and Clemson's ACC tourny bid, while VT ended our Orange Bowl hopes.
Clearly three teams in the Top 15 going in to bowl week must be mediocre, instead of you know, challenged by each other.
Also, not quite sure if you want to rest on the Buckeyes' laurels; as others have pointed out, suffering one of the Top Five (or is just Top Ten (big difference)) worst routs in BCS history last year and losing to the powerhouse Illini (USC was really threatened) clearly prove they deserve to be in the National Championship.
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john brewer about 1 year ago
i see why you posted in the humor section.
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Anonymous about 1 year ago
brett, you need to re-check your facts son....THE University of Texas Longhorns are the ONLY team that has won 10 games or more in SEVEN STRAIGHT SEASONS.... four straight? that's a decent start i suppose....
also, the Longhorns are the winningest CFB program over the past 10 years....that is all
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