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From: pannell@dosadi.DEC (Roger D. Pannell   229-6893)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Big 10 again
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Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 08:48:13 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 08:48:13 1985
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>The Big Ten last won the Rose Bowl in the mid seventies (I don't remember the
>exact year), so it hasn't been all that long.  Too, despite the last few
>years of a consecutive Pac 10 streak, the Big Ten still leads in career 
>victories in the Rose Bowl.  

The Pittsburgh Steelers still lead in Super Bowl victories, does that mean 
they play in the best division??  The Yankees have won more world series, is 
the American League a better league??  Muhammed Ali used to be the heavyweight 
champion of the world, is he the best boxer??  Paul Anderson lifted more weight 
than any other human, is he the strongest man in the world??  If these 
teams/individuals participated in the Big 10 conference, then those facts might 
have some significance to Big 10 fans, but to anybody else it wouldn't.

>Too, the records of the Pac 10 rep in the Rose Bowl has been worse than the 
>record of the Big Ten rep for the last five years!  

Of course if the Pac 10 rep played Big 10 opponents throughout the season then 
the Pac 10 rep would have the better record.

>The Big Ten team goes in expecting it to be easy, and it hasn't been.  Once 
>reason is hhome field advantage.  For the last five years, the Pac 10 rep in 
>the Rose Bowl has been USC or UCLA, both really close to the Rose Bowl site.  

Are you sure about that?  I thought Washington kicked Michigan's butt a couple 
of years ago.

>Robert A. Ekblaw

The rest of Roberts message was pure sour grapes, too ridiculous to even 
respond to.
 

					-- Roger Pannell

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