The Bagmen: This is Why We Make Fun of the Big Ten...ish

Thursday, October 20, 2011

This is Why We Make Fun of the Big Ten...ish

(Yep, we completed this many passes last week...and STILL won!!)

Alright I know it was last week but I had to bring this to everyone's attention. Some of you may wonder why we are such overt SEC snobs. Why we constantly bang on other conferences and reference their inferiority. Some people say, "SEC superiority is just media contrived BS. They're not really that much better than everyone." Aaaaaaand just when I start to think, 'Well maybe they're right. Maybe they're not really that much worse than the SEC,' last week comes along and allows me to TOTALLY REDEEM MYSELF!! Let's set the scene, shall we??

THE Ohio State, the conference's premier program, is not really having that good a year. Pretty inept on offense, not nearly as strong as they usually are on defense, and just overall not the juggernaut they have been recently. Illinois on the other hand is having one heckuva season. Undefeated, ranked in the top-15 with an unbelievable offense, and a suffocating defense lead by this guy:

Who is that fella?? That, ladies and gentlemen, is a defensive tackle with one of the nest names in college football; Whitney Mercilus. Sure his first name is Whitney and that's kinda silly, but his last name is pronouned "merciless." Awesome, plain and simple. But I digress. Back to the game: The Buckeyes traveled to Champaign to take on the Illini. The game kicked off, Ohio State completed 1 pass, and three hourse later, got on the bus with a victory. Let me repeat that, to make it clear. A team that was under .500, went on the road, completed all of 1 pass attempt, and beat an undefeated Illinois team. An Illinois team that I had listed as a team that was "So Close" to a fictional playoff berth. So next time you wonder if we are being too harsh on other conferences, or you think it's really not necessary to be that snobbish towards other conferences, remember this stat line: