So what are our rooting interests for Monday?

My mom's a grad, so I expect none of you to follow my lead.

Oregon - 54

Ohio State - 5

Nuetral/Don't Care  - 4

Go Ducks! No way I could ever root for osu in a game like this. 

F Ohio State is always a fine choice. BUT

I'll be rooting for the Buckeyes. It'll help the Big 10's reputation, and I worry that if Oregon finally gets over the hump and gets a title that they'll be able to start recruiting at a higher level, and that's scarier than Ohio winning another ring. Oregon has gone a long way in the football world with top 20-30 level talent, if they can start recruiting in the top 10-15, yikes.

But she's partial wearing mini dress with vicious v cut up front,while serving me during natty game.

NO OHIO STATE DOESNT WIN A NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. 

Especially not the first of the Playoff Era.

I live in Seattle, am taking graduate classes UW, so this is bascially like watching my two teams' worst rivals go at each other...

There is no chance in hell that I will ever root for that school.  I live in Ohio, and if they win Monday night, I might just have to move.  Tuesday morning at work will be absolute hell having to listen to all the Ohio slappies.  I dont know what to think about the game.  I thought they had no chance against Wisconsin and Alabama.  All I know is that I will be cheering hard for the Ducks!

Ohio State can eat all the bags of all the dicks.

Asking MGoBlog if our collective rooting interest is for Ohio State or for Oregon is like asking elves of Middle Earth whether they should be rooting for Sauron's orcs or the human kingdom of Gondor.

I have always rooted for the Big Ten when playing the Pac 12 and it doesn't matter which team is playing from the conference. Michigan is in the Big Ten and whatever is good for the Big Ten is good for Michigan.

I cannot see how rooting for the Pac 12 over the Big Ten is good for Michigan. I don't even look at which team from the conference is playing it is the Big Ten and the perception of the Big Ten would change a little if the Big Ten were to win this game.

I hate Ohio State, but I have to root for the Big in this game.

I am rooting for Oregon, but not just to root against OSU. I actually like Oregon. I would have rooted for OSU if they played FSU.

Oregon.  I can't make it any plainer than that.

Rooting for OSU is the equivilant of hoping for the zombie apocalypse.  Makes no sense and would be the end of all that is good and clean if it happens.

GO DUCKS!

I would root for 12 out of 14 Big Ten teams to win the NC.  That's 86%.  Therefore my conference loyalty is still intact.

The Big10 already looks good and doesn't need an OSU boost.

OSU has some of the best fans and many of the biggest douche fans I have ever met. The latter is why I will never root for them. I would root for any other big10 school if they were in the title game.

Mariotta also seems like a good kid versus dummy Jones.

 Never root for Ohio State. I don't like seeing Ohio State fan happy.

Pistons over Raptors

It's truly a no win situation for me. I hate them both!

"Thee" Ohio State University vs. The University of (Oregon) Nike.

Thee "worst fans in the land" vs. the "user of world cheap labor so we can pay rich athletes more millions".

Oregon's Football Student Center cost Nike $120M, UM's cost $6M. Nike has been trying to buy the NCAA Football Championship.

I would have preferred Baylor. TCU lost to Baylor but the Big 12 was too weak to declare who was their own conference champion in an effort to get one of their two teams in the final four. Obviously that scheme failed miserably.

Since I really have to choose I'll go with Ohio State since it will make our defeat of them next November as monumental as Bo's epic 1969 victory. 

There's only one right answer to this question. As Michigan fans, we live to hate Ohio St., so Ohio loses.

But if we must overanalyze, Ohio State loses a close game, late. This accomplishes three things: 1) even moar legitimacy for the B1G!?, 2) hilarity ensues when a previously 5-7 Michigan stomps almost-national champions Ohio St next fall, and, most importantly, 3) it causes even more anguish in the hearts of loathsome Ohio State fans than a blowout (second most favorable outcome) would

I hope they both lose.

But beating the ass of the defending National Champion in November will be tasty.

Eff those guys down south hate needs to get back nuclear grade.

I wanted OSU to beat Bama, in part because of my keen hatred for the SEC, but largely because having a Big 10 team in the title game is good for recruiting, even if it is our biggest rivals.  It lends credulity to the "come here and you'll have a chance to play for a National Championship" pitch that was frankly stretching credibility if you weren't an SEC team in recent years.

However, now the point has been made that the Big 10 can make the title game.  I want Oregon to ground Ohio into a fine paste.  Ohio winning helps us not at all, and will make me listen to annoying Ohio fans babble on for the next 11 months.  Go Ducks!