Homerism runs deep in college football. If you’re a fan of Alabama football, you’re going to scream from them-thar mountaintops about SEC football. Same thing goes for Pac-10 football from UCLA fans, Big 12 football from Texas Longhorn partisans, etc etc etc.
Since our leagues don’t get the chance to prove their worth against each other on the field more than once or twice a year, there’s very little opportunity to prove beyond doubt which conference is truly the best.
Until now.
Today, the Buckeye Battle Cry begins a new experiment which we hope will settle the argument over which major NCAA conference produces the best talent in the world. We have taken every active player in the NFL and separated them into four leagues, one for each of the following NCAA conferences; The Big Ten, the Pac Ten, the Big Twelve, and the Southeastern Conference. The best pro players from each of these 45 teams will be playing against each other in a fantasy football league, conducted and monitored by all of us here at The BBC.
Our league will be open and visible to everybody on ESPN.com. You can track our movements at The Buckeye Battle Cry Challenge, and we encourage your comments and your advice on which players to start from week to week. We’ll be keeping a close eye on fantasy notes, but your help is always going to be considered.
Our draft has already taken place. You can view all the rosters here and let us know what you think. As of this moment, starting lineups are set but are NOT official. We have players that we still want to release, and players that need to be benched until their individual situations get resolved (we’re looking at you, Michael Crabtree).
We will be announcing the rules of the league very soon. Rest assured that despite being a biased Big Ten blog, we will not be stacking the deck. We plan to put the best players available on the field for each and every team in our league. We subscribe to the theory that it’s always better if your opponent is at 100%, so they have no excuses when you beat them.
The BBC Challenge is made up of 8 teams, four each from the aforementioned conferences. Every team will make the playoffs, and the first round of the playoffs will by a battle between two teams from the same conference. The championship game will take place during Week 16 of the NFL season, in order to prevent any key players from being rested in Week 17 if they are not needed by their pro team that week (example – Peyton Manning sitting out Week 17 in 2007 because the Colts had locked up their playoff position already).
So sit back and enjoy….we’re going to put the professional players from the four best NCAA conferences together and settle this argument once and for all!
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