Early thread for Wisconsin/Indiana 01/31/07

[LT Profits]

Onlooker,

I love you man, but the proper definition of an upset is an underdog winning outright. Indiana was favored by 2.5 or 3 here, so this was definitely NOT an upset! The fact that Wisconsin may still be the better team and was ranked #2 in the country coming in is totally irrelavent, as it is the POINTSPREAD that determines if a game is an upset or not, period.

[cadillacb]

History Lesson For Onlooker

NFL is not a good comparison to college sports. College sports live off ratings and polls. If we like it or not.

Trust me I understand the spread, and yes, its not a upset in that aspect. But the better team did get beat, and that to me is a upset. The site where the game was played is why the team was favored by closing.

I hope you all made out big on this game, since you all knew Indiana was going to win this game.

What the hell, give me a history lesson. This should be good.

The term upset was derived from the 1919 sanford memorial stakes, a horse race, when the great horse Man O' War was defeated by a 100-1 longshot. This was Man O' War's only loss of his career, and the horse who beat him? His name was Upset, thus giving us the present-day term upset. Note that Man O' War was -10000 not +125 like wisconsin.

[onlooker]

Thanks guys.