It's just an extension of Southern regionalism. I don't really feel that way for the most part. Other SEC teams losing could give my team a bump in a particular recruiting battle or something like that. Has nothing to do with the South. Might be prevalent there too but folks in the Midwest love the big ten. My older family are all Iowa fans but they pull for all big ten teams. Same with many of my friends and several posters here have expressed this sentiment. Indiana and Iowa can just go off and [expletive] themselves somewhere.
They would have absolutely been #2 in the polls. It depends whether an extra win over Nebraksa would move them enough in the computers. It would've been very very close.
I've already had a relative saying he wants Singletary. I momentarily blacked out after I heard that. HE KNOWS BEARS FOOTBALL 3 YARDS AND CLOUD OF DUST ENOUGH OF THIS PAMPERED INJURY FAKING QB