Oregon is closest to a modern powerhouse team, but not overly successful. Miami has been middling for awhile. So it's good to see new faces. Miami is the only team with a national championship in the last 50 years. I like it.
I am glad that all the traditional teams are out
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I'd like it better if the $hitheads weren't in it.
Miami has 5 NCs in the last 50 years. Miami is one of the bluest of blue bloods. They like other powerhouses will go through lean year periods, or as I like to call it....."Nuclear Football Winters".
Unfortunately, I believe they’ll be playing for the championship. I can’t hate Chambliss, but I’d like him a lot more if he played for a different team.
As long as it’s not LSU.
Miami is traditional, and Oregon has done everything but win it all the last 30 years.
My friend, you will not enjoy 2026.
You represent the majority opinion of the fanbase on this point. NIL mixed with the modern powerhouses out spending everyone and then winning the playoffs against each other would kill the sport completely.
Yes, I'm saying that the bigs are not allowed to win it right now.
I don’t enjoy anything where OM benefits.
The last one was in 2001 and they haven't been contenders in awhile. That's like if Nebraska all of a sudden was in contention. Anyone under 35 doesn't know that Miami. So that does make them a fresh contender.
That's what I said in my original statement. Miami is traditional like Nebraska. They were very good a long time ago. Oregon has been a contender recently but has never won it all. So not sure what you're getting at.
Chambliss seems like a good guy and he's a damn good QB. His success this year is a great story. It does suck that he plays for Ole Miss but it reflects continued poor decisions of those involved in our football program.
Bruce, I watched you play baseball for MSU. Do you want your seasonal MSU HR record to not be included because it was in the previous century. I hope not. A body of work is a body of work. If records were before 1950, then I might say yeah....that was the old days, but they still count. Really good baseball started playing at MSU in the 1960's. Then McGregor helped build the first Dudy Noble from what was a giant cow pasture north of the current HUMP location. Our only football SEC Championship was 1941, and we could actually claim a NC for that same year and be justified.
I can hate him. 17 him & all the rest of their players. And coaches. And fans.
Not saying it doesn't count. I said it's been a long time as my HR record is. When I show up at Dudy Noble today most people have no idea who I am. When Tanner Allen shows up, almost everyone recognizes him. So I am "new" to most people in that situation, as Miami is to a National Championship game. Does anyone talk about Georgetown anymore?
I wouldnt say they are the "Bluest" of blue bloods, since they were a nobody until they hired Schnellenberger in 1979. But they are clearly one of the top programs of the last 45 years.
Agreed.
Miami is no longer, currently, a blue blood. They may remake themselves into one in this new era, but to date, they are not.
We need to define a blue blood. To me, it's simple - a blue blood is a program capable of winning a national title. That means you are able to compile the necessary roster. Back in the day you could rise up by some new form of recruiting. That's what Miami did with finally being able to take advantage of their local talent. Nowadays many of the blue blood reputations are set - and it's hard to breakthrough that forcefield. I think you have about a 20-25 year window after winning it all before your reputation starts to fade, and you have to build back the hard way.
Not only did they start losing after 2002.....They went through an entire culture change. No more of the thug u, orange bowl, or anything that connected them to the old days. Completely different. Nobody considers them a true contender now, but that obviously could change in a few weeks. I mean a few weeks ago nobody even thought they should be in the playoff.
Hope your daughter, Chelsea (spelling?) is doing ok. She used to stop by our tailgate before and/or after her shift at the campus radio station. We fed her a few times and she was an acquaintance with my daughter, Mary-Anne. We set up right across the street next to Lloyd-Ricks. Funny, you mentioned Georgetown....I'm looking at an official game cover to the Orange Bowl framed on my wall next to that team photo of the 1941 team. Those were my dad's years in school.
Disagree. Once a BlueBlood, always a BlueBlood. Doesn't matter when you won your titles as long as you have multiple ones.