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The 2010 Hater’s Guide To The Top 25 » Deadspin

It’s that time of year again. College football is less than two weeks away, and that means we’re due for a whole new round of PURE COUNTRY HATIN’.

I love watching college football. If it had a playoff, it would be the perfect sport. It has everything you need: asshole coaches, shady boosters, drunken girls with big cans, and HATE. Tons and tons and tons of unbridled hate. Schools hating schools. States hating states. Towns hating towns. They don’t even know why they hate each other so much, but they do! And that’s what makes it such good hate. If you knew why you hated something, that means you’d have more trouble justifying it to yourself. And I don’t like the idea of that at all. I like that hate to go unquestioned, free roam and burn as it pleases.

h/t: the girl

ESPNU Rank ‘Em: Big 12 (10 teams) and Pac 10 (11 teams) — All sports

Now, I’m all for team spirit, allegiances, etc… but really? TWENTY-TWO PEOPLE voted Washington State as #1 of 21?! I mean, sure, they have a decent men’s baseball team and women’s soccer team… but along with the worst men’s basketball and football teams.

Meanwhile USC is nationally ranked in 11 sports: football, women’s soccer, women’s softball, men’s and women’s water polo, men’s and women’s golf, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s volleyball.

Texas is good, but only nationally ranked in 8 sports: baseball, football, softball, women’s basketball, men’s and women’s tennis, women’s volleyball, men’s golf.

Yeah, Pac-16 would be weird at first; but, it’s potentially good for the sport. Big 12 is overall pretty weak while Pac-10 is fairly strong while not nationally respected (mostly by the assholes over in the SEC). A 2 divison Pac-16 conference could be rocky and wild.

Plus, USC (and Cal) has ZERO love for Texas… it could be fun to become serious rivals.

So I guess we just wait out Nebraska’s move… and go from there.