Chase Young out of the Draft

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(01-09-2020, 02:33 PM)ochocincos Wrote: I think it has a lot to do with the fact that Ohio St is head and shoulders the best college football program in the state of Ohio, so people have gravitated to that.
They will watch every OSU game and see OSU dominate those opponents and think that this team is absolutely the best.
And they are right...to an extent. They are the best when compared to the competition they played against.
EDIT - I see fanbases of SEC, BIG 12, and ACC acting the same. PAC12 used to act that way back when USC had Pete Carroll and Oregon had Chip Kelly, but not really like that in recent years.

What I also know is that not many (keyword = many) OSU fans are watching the other top teams to compare.

I personally got tired of how much people gravitated toward OSU when there were other programs closer to them or the actual schools they went to (UC, BGSU, Miami, OU). So I deliberately avoided rooting for OSU and intentionally tried to look at College Football as objectively as I could by watching the top programs from the other Power 5 conferences to compare. I cared more about watching two ranked teams play each other than I cared about following a particular team.

Part of the issue is I've seen OSU fans create downright toxic work environments for fans/alumni of other colleges.  They basically get bullied onto the bandwagon because they don't want trouble at work.