bethelbacker
Special Teams Player
I for one get real tired of the Big 12 being listed as the third or fourth best conference in the country. Granted, the North was down for a couple of years there, but if you look at it now, we have BY FAR the second-best conference in the country in my opinion.
Nebraska and Mizzou will both be good (possibly great in NU's case) teams in the North, and the South is absolutely loaded with strong teams in Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech to pair with the big 2 of OU and UT. That's seven teams that range from good to dominant, which is more than can be said about the Big 10 or the ACC. All the Big 10 had was Michigan-OSU-Wisconsin, and the ACC was a conference that had a few solid 9-to-10 win teams, but that was mostly a result of having nobody rise up and claim their spot as the best in the conference. Most people wouldnt even know who won the conference championship without looking it up (Wake Forest beat Georgia Tech to win it).
I've always thought that the eastern media had a bias against the Huskers, but now it seems like it's against the whole conference. They point to horrible teams like CU and ISU, but every conference is going to have a few whipping boys, so I dont know why they point out ours but dont look at the lower schools in other conferences (Like Illinois in the Big 10 or Duke/UNC in the ACC). Either way, it gets old.
Nebraska and Mizzou will both be good (possibly great in NU's case) teams in the North, and the South is absolutely loaded with strong teams in Texas A&M, Oklahoma State, Texas Tech to pair with the big 2 of OU and UT. That's seven teams that range from good to dominant, which is more than can be said about the Big 10 or the ACC. All the Big 10 had was Michigan-OSU-Wisconsin, and the ACC was a conference that had a few solid 9-to-10 win teams, but that was mostly a result of having nobody rise up and claim their spot as the best in the conference. Most people wouldnt even know who won the conference championship without looking it up (Wake Forest beat Georgia Tech to win it).
I've always thought that the eastern media had a bias against the Huskers, but now it seems like it's against the whole conference. They point to horrible teams like CU and ISU, but every conference is going to have a few whipping boys, so I dont know why they point out ours but dont look at the lower schools in other conferences (Like Illinois in the Big 10 or Duke/UNC in the ACC). Either way, it gets old.