Quote:
Originally Posted by DeadMoneyWalking
I thought of that but rejected it as a sort of anti-survivorship bias i.e. our memory is fixed on how the game played out instead of the pre-game hype. Les Miles can make anything interesting and there was a constant whine about Oklahoma St getting shafted so ESPN could have the brands it preferred.
whine is the opposite of hype though. If everybody is bitching about a game, that's the opposite of being excited to watch it
nobody wanted to watch that one b/c the first game was so brutal, it was a rematch, ok state got ****ing shafted, etc.
in this one, there's no whining or controversy b/c both teams earned their way there and nobody can say that anybody else deserves it.