Conference Chaos
I bet you are wondering what this is. Maybe you’re not, but the inevitable truth is that curiosity moved you to click on this link. Point being is that you are here now, and you might as well find out what we have to say. Conference Chaos is not your average game day summary. It is water cooler BS and banter so to speak. Conference Chaos is seeing your ex wife with another man at a restaurant, ordering a few shots of whiskey, and going over to their table to restructure his jaw with your fist. It is towing a guy’s car that is taking up the last two parking spaces, dumping it in a lake, and then parking right where his car was.
CC encourages discourse, positive or otherwise. It encourages commentary, backlash, futile disagreement, and anything else that comes to mind. This is a chance for you to read the opinions that you and your friends share but your brother in law, who lives halfway across the country, just doesn’t get. To him, Big Ten football is slow, archaic, and impossible to love unless you‘re in a nursing home gumming tapioca from a spoon held by a CNA. Or maybe you think SEC football is purchased, overrated, and loved only by toothless hillbillies who can drive their houses to work. If you are a homer at heart, this is the place for you. Each conference is ranked and graded weekly by a representative from every region; a fan just like you, not some computer or “expert” who only watched highlights of the games.
You might be thinking, “What drives this? What has made college football fans harp on rivalries, only to root for those rivals when they’re playing teams in another conference? It reeks of an athletic civil war of sorts.” Well, the BCS has made it this way. Perception of a win sometimes means more than the win itself. Nationwide perception of an opponent determines your team’s ranking. Mythical “conference cups” deigned by ESPN are given invisibly to the conference with the best bowl record. Who decides these things and who cares? Nowadays it is about strength of schedule, coaches, computers, and equations that only Einstein understands. This, ladies and gentlemen, is what college football has become. Many fans long for the old days of beating the stink off of teams and then being ranked strictly on performance. Fans don’t care about the numbers and mathematics. Once upon a time, you rooted for the Dawgs to lose every game. Now if your team beats Georgia, you need Georgia to win the rest of their games, so your team moves up in the rankings. You get a hard on knowing that beating them increases your team’s chances of moving up if they keep on keeping on. This concept of conference love is perpetuated by the BCS. We don’t particularly like it, but when the system was created they failed to call and ask us how we (the fans) felt about it all. Talks of strongest conferences now dominate discussions, and you hate it. You have to hate the Big 12 because you have no choice; Big 12 teams are a threat and the enemy even if your team never plays a Big 12 team. And boy do you hate it when the talking heads go on and on about one conference over another when you watched the same thing and didn’t see it.
Enjoy!
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