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Message: [QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 3054933, member: 1145"] It was the standard Big Ten arrogance - if you can win in the Big Ten, you can be better than anybody, usually much better. The Big Ten's glory era came only because of polls, of sportswriters and makers of newsreels. Big Ten teams rarely played anyone else worth half a flip, but the many sportswriters focused on the Big Ten carried the most weight in the profession by far. So BT teams kept getting voted #1 and Top 10, and kept winning Heismans and Outlands, etc. Penn St entering the BT only furthered that view of BT vast superiority. Because PSU got absorbed by the BT and reduced to another nobody in the food chain that exists to prop up 'The Game' - Michigan-Ohio St, BT people kept assuming that the BT stood head and shoulders above everyone else. [/QUOTE]