Conference bowl implications

think of the Big Ten. OSU and MSU can lose by hundred for all I care. He'll, I

hope MSU loses big. F**k em!

Well, I don't think the Big Ten will ever get rid of the "Big and Slow" moniker as teams like Wisconsin and Michigan State pride themselves as being composed of beef, fat, and nothing more.  But I mean, if the conference wins all but 1 maybe 2 bowl games, I don't see why the college football nation would consider the Big Ten as a bad conference.

I hope OSU loses.  I don't even care if the conference receives a bad wrap.  Conference appreciation be damned!

OSU will not determine the view of the conference.  I would argue that this year, Wisco is more important.  They are known as a beef machine, and are playing a team built on offensive innovation and speed.  This game will go a long way towards shaping perception.

Not that OSU will be ignored, but one team - especially one that frequently loses its bowl games - will not shape the perception of the conference. 

In the end, the conference's overall record is the most important thing (so long as we win 1 of the BCS games).  If we go 4-2 or better, than the B10 will continue to regain respect.

is the underdog in 7 of the 8 bowl games, with osu being the only favorite.  If B1G only gets 2 or 3 wins in the bowls, the conference will be ridiculed (even though Vegas has B1G only winning one game).  

For the conference to be sheltered from any media "shit-storm" I think B1G needs to go at least 4 - 4 in the bowls ... with 2 of the 3   11 - 1 teams winning.

Go Blue !

so they will be protected from an all out assault if they lose.

What is really awful is that the MSU and PSU and Michigan games are all on at the same time !!   Who came up with that ???

Go Blue !

from last year, so i think as long as more than half of the teams win including (MSU, MICH, OSU 2 outta 3) we should get positive reviews

Sure OSU won a NC...BUT it took a mythical non call to win against a much superior Miami team! It seems that on the biggest stage OSU lays an egg and drags down the entire conference. This year will be no different other than MSU and possibly PSU joining them in the trash heap! As much as i like to see the Big Ten win bowl games there is NO WAY OSU is going to stop the Arkansas vertical game they dont have enough DBs to cover everyone. I predict Mallet will have the game of his life and even mention that his time at Michigan helped prepare him for his waxing OSU!! GO BLUE!! BEAT MISS ST!!

Ironically, OSU has the fast, athletic quarterback with a questionable arm and Arkansas has the pocket statue.  Would an Arkansas win prove the superiority of the Big Ten model over the SEC model?

Michigan has definitely performed well against the SEC, I can't wait to go toe-to-toe with Miss St., but seeing as a good number of those victories came against Vanderbilt teams, our dominance over the conference is a tad misleading.

OSU's losses to previous SEC opponents had them going up against elite defenses in LSU and UF. Arkansas doesn't pose that kind of a threat and should be an easy matchup for OSU

and their blog mods have to retract a bunch of "CC" threads for all of 2011

Debating the perceptions and stereotypes of conferences is a useless discussion to have and ignores the within variation. The media outlets blow up these discussions to generate discussion and controversy and, ultimately, page clicks. But in the grand scheme of things, these perceptions don't mean anything. There is variation within every conference. It's a shame that these types of arguments fail to recognize that.

a rats about a conference.  Thats how I shut off most of my co-workers that bring that crap to me.  Then I ask them how did your team do this week end?  (Ialready know cause I saw the score)

I'm a Michigan Fan  and other than that I enjoy college football more than the NFL.  I don't identify with a conference I never have. It seems to me that the only fans that have this affinity with conferences or at least it all seemed to start with fans of SEC teams and Big 12 teams.  It really did not seem to catch on until the BCS.   

I don't really give squat about what other fans Michigan fans included say about a conferences.  Okay so OSU wins and Michigan loses their respective bowl games.  Well, that'll cheer me up cause a Big Ten beat an SEC team. And o boy my team lost but my conference did good. Or say Michigan wins and the rest of those teams mentioned loses  I'm happy as a lark that my team wins and don't reall give a penny about the others.

It just seems to this conference fandom crap is a foreign construct to me invented along with the BCS and people who are long time MS State, Ole Miss, Vandy Kentucky and the other frequent bottom dwellers in the SEC or Big 12.   Just my opinion carry on I'll be in the area all-day. 

That's how I really see MSU and OSU in bowl games. If they win; ok then, it helps the perception of the conference as a whole. If they lose; HA! I mean, what more need be said about that scenario?

I'm really Ok with whatever stereotypes that the media wants to say about the Big Ten as a conference, as long as ...OSU and MSU gets the snot kicked out of them

and MICHIGAN spanks Miss. State. (Please God)

Then let the media spew their crap, but I'll have a happy winter.