re: Watching the playoff games is depressing

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Washington isn’t winning because they have way more black people locally, that’s silly.

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I don't think you're fully appreciating the pure numbers advantage they have.

Looking at the roster, if you drew a ~60 mile radius circle around their campus, 34 of their players come from inside it.

If I drew that circle for us, but expanded it to ~100 miles to include Tulsa and Springfield, by my quick count we've got 15 players from inside that. That's including recruiting grounds that we by no means have a sole claim over.

My point isn't that Washington is some automatic football powerhouse, but they have some major advantages that we don't. To say otherwise is just sticking your head in the sand. Being in a better conference and being located around a better football culture is what we have to counter it.