Let’s be honest here. The ACC/Big Ten Challenge has been like stealing candy from a baby.
Since its inception in the 1999-2000 season the Big Ten has never won the challenge. It’s been straight ACC domination for the last decade, as the conference owns a 64-percent winning percentage in head-to-head competition with Big Ten teams.
Anything BUT a challenge.
But this year’s matchups may present the Big Ten’s most compelling shot to come out on top. For the first time in a long time, over half of the teams in the conference made this year’s Preseason AP Top 25: Michigan State, Purdue, Michigan, Ohio State, Illinois, and Minnesota.
Not too shabby.
It may be a little too early to start declaring Fab Five status but mark my words the Big Ten is BACK. And Tuesday night’s championship rematch between No. 9 Michigan State and No. 10 North Carolina is the first BIG test on a national stage to prove just that.
Okay, so maybe Facebook doesn’t totally suck (oh, and MSF is on it now)
As many of you know, I have not been a particularly strong voice of support for Facebook over the last 18 months or so. In fact, I have vehemently opposed and avoided Facebook’s irresistible march to take over the social experience of the Internet.
The crowning “achievement” in my crusade to disparage Facebook was this post from March of 2010, which for a time was the #1 hit in Google for the search term “facebook sucks.” (And yes, I really was proud of this. Part of my day time job is search engine optimization, so you’ll have to forgive me.)
Here is what I said then:
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