ESPN Bracket Battles

Submitted by Blueblood2991 on

I saw this floating around Twitter the other day.  It's a tournament of the greatest NCAA Football programs.  It is now in the Elite 8 round with MSU against us.  Figured I would bring it to the attention of the Twitter users on this blog.  It has been a slow week news-wise, so might as well do our best to make Sparty feel "disrespected" as usual. 

Greatest NCAA Football Program • ELITE 8 • RT ~ Michigan State Spartans Fav ~ Michigan Wolverines pic.twitter.com/eJSs55Kx7I

— Bracket Battles (@BracketBattles1) July 9, 2015
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Michigan Eaglet

July 9th, 2015 at 12:35 AM ^

If we win, it further shows Michigan's dominance in all things. If we lose, it was because OSU and MSU teamed up to rig it because they couldn't win on their own and we're still the best.

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WolvinLA2

July 9th, 2015 at 12:58 AM ^

Being the RT team is a huge advantage because when you RT it, your followers who are presumably fans of the same teams as you see it. But when you fav no one sees it. But we're still winning so that's cool.

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kurpit

July 9th, 2015 at 2:24 AM ^

Previous bracket champions:

Columbus Blue Jackets for Greatest Hockey Fanbase

Arkansas Razorbacks for Greatest College Sports Program

Charlotte, North Carolina for Greatest Pro Sports City

Thanks, bracket battles. We're all learning so much from this. I hope Ole Miss wins this just to emphasize the absurdity of it.

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Mr. Yost

July 9th, 2015 at 6:34 AM ^

 

 
  1. Michigan
  2. OSU
  3. ND
  4. USC
  5. Alabama
  6. Auburn
  7. UF
  8. FSU
  9. Tennessee
  10. Texas
  11. Nebraska
  12. Oklahoma

That's your list, period. It hasn't changed in 10 years (except probably Florida with Tebow/Meyer)...teams have just gone up and down.

If you want to make it a bracket without byes and get to 16, add LSU, Georgia, Georgia Tech, and UCLA.

If someone wants to rank those 16 and have a battle...go for it. But MSU isn't even in the picture. Hell Penn St. is likely ahead of them. Colorado and Texas A&M definitely are. This is not only fake (it's on ESPN), it's stupid.

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LSAClassOf2000

July 9th, 2015 at 6:46 AM ^

Didn't we go up against Arkansas in this person's round of 16? I seem to remember that tweet coming across my own feed yesterday at some point and chuckling. I mean, if this is a lifetime award, then I am not seeing a lot of strong competition so far for us to date, and yet there have been some absolutely ludicrous winners of this in the past so I have a similar feeling about the validity of this method as I do about MLB fan voting. 

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Philmypockets

July 9th, 2015 at 9:49 AM ^

Having lived in California, Nebraska, Florida and a few more states the one thing you rarely see is a Staee shirt, plate, or fan item. You see a Michigan plate holder alone 5 times a day in California and Florida. Staee is regional and as long as they are in Michigan they will be that way. So that's pretty much permanent.

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