re: Who is the ultimate “little brother” school in college sports?

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GaTech doesn’t really care about it like that though.

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I’m a Tech grad and can tell you this is false.

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I’m a Tech grad and can tell you this is false.

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And how old are you?

Texas A&M. Even their fight song is about Texas.

Well they play in the SEC, have won a title in baseball and , sorry, but beat Alabama thus past season in football. They've always been 2nd fiddle to Tennessee

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Texas A&M’s fight song is all about Texas.

Not one line or even a stanza the entire song.

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you ever hear of Texas' fight song?

the irony of auburn posters being ITT and getting on their high horse has not been missed by me

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That wouldn’t really apply. They’re not on the same level, just because both have “Ohio” in the name. Rarely play, not a rivalry. Kent State is worse athletically than Ohio U and is also an Ohio public state university.

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As a Kent St alum, I take issue with this. I just want to make a correction to this post. Kent State is actually a MUCH better school athletically than Ohio U in the Big 3 sports. The only sport that Ohio is better at than Kent is football. Ohio is the most underachieving school in the MAC. Period.

Kent State is a baseball powerhouse in the MAC. CWS in 2012:
Kent State basketball power in the MAC. NCAA Elite 8 in 2002

MAC Baseball Champions just since 2000: 00, 03, 06, 08, 11, 12, 13, 16, 17, 18, 23

MAC Basketball Champions since 2000: 01, 02, 03, 04, 06, 08, 10, 11, 15, 17, 23

Ohio U hasn’t won shite!!!!

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And how old are you?

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Just shy of 40, and Tech has been UGA’s lil bro the entire time.

Washington State deserves mention here. Washington has 76-34-6 advantage in football and a 188-111 advantage in basketball and pretty much dominates all of the other sports too.

Also, there's a really big gap in local reputations for those two schools. Washington is a well regarded academic institution in prime neighborhood in Seattle with a large endowment, great institutions, etc. Washington State is a crappy school in the middle of nowhere.

Oh and when the PAC 12 dissolved, nobody wanted them and Washington's response to ending their "rivaly" was pretty much "see ya later losers".

Do these models and ideas exist any more in this new NIL world for CFB? Whatever schools that can pay its players the most money will be the powerhouses.

I don't think there are any more "little brothers" in CFB or other college sports. NIL has changed this "universe" and paradigm to such an extent that the former paradigm no longer exists in reality. Sure, many CFB fans will delude themselves into believing that the old paradigm still exists in some sense, but, IMHO this is part of the "self-delusion" component that makes a person a college football fan/ fanatic.

College Football no longer exists. Move on. It's semi-professional football now. The laundry that the players wear during games does not really reflect their own hearts and loyalties.

The fans are loyal to the "laundry" to a fault, but, the players have very well freed themselves from the shackles of these delusions.