Don't look now. BIG 10 may go undefeated in bowl season

A A ron wrote:

you must have a lot of time on your hands wrote:

For the power 5 to have automatic bids it would be necessary to have more than 4 spots in the playoff, genius. I'm not opposed to that but it isn't the system.

Context is a hard thing to grasp, I know. In the instance of a SEC West loser who didn't even make the conference title game getting over the BIG 10 champion, the championship game should have pushed the BIG into the playoff.

You do realize that CFP selectors snubbed Big 10 champ Penn State last year and instead gifted a playoff spot to Ohio State?

Woody Hazed wrote:

A A ron wrote:

Context is a hard thing to grasp, I know. In the instance of a SEC West loser who didn't even make the conference title game getting over the BIG 10 champion, the championship game should have pushed the BIG into the playoff.

You do realize that CFP selectors snubbed Big 10 champ Penn State last year and instead gifted a playoff spot to Ohio State?

Hence the reason I thought penn state deserved to go. Ohio state made the committee look pretty stupid last year by not sending the champ

A A ron wrote:

Hence the reason I thought penn state deserved to go. Ohio state made the committee look pretty stupid last year by not sending the champ

Certainly did. And getting drubbed by Iowa last month cost OSU dearly this year.

you must have a lot of time on your hands wrote:

Cicici wrote:

Bowls are not meaningless. I think you don't really know what you are talking about.

Yeah, they are meaningless. If they weren't, then other sports would have post-season games between teams who did not qualify for the championship tournament.

Like AFC Cup, CAF Confederation Cup, CAF Super Cup, Copa Sudamericana, Recopa Sudamericana, CONCACAF League, Europa League, UEFA Super Cup?

Or like NIT Tournament, CBI Tournament, CIT Tournament?

kaepfail wrote:

Answering my own question, it appears there are 14 (14!) teams in the "Big 10". Do they not know how to count?? #sad

14 is like a really big 10. Or maybe big 10 and little 4.

Just to complete your thought:

Colorado isn't on the Pacific.

Louisville isn't on the Atlantic Coast.

Missouri isn't in the South East.

Ten doesn't equal 12, and definitely not Big 12

Idaho isn't in the Sunbelt

Buffalo isn't in the Middle of America

The MWC are in the mountains, or in the west.

The C-USA teams are all in the USA.

The American teams all appear to be just that.

OSU has 2 losses. The 1 loss teams deserve to be ranked ahead of them. It’s as simple as that. There’s all this talk about how complicated the system is but it’s as simple as wins and losses. The 1 loss teams are all in the top 4. All the 2 loss teams come after.

The meaningless bowls still give out a hefty piles of cash to the teams. I remember my college’s 6-6 team made a bowl game and the program got paid a few hundred grand plus thousands of dollars of gear for every player.

Big money wrote:

The meaningless bowls still give out a hefty piles of cash to the teams. I remember my college’s 6-6 team made a bowl game and the program got paid a few hundred grand plus thousands of dollars of gear for every player.

Many, many teams make nothing when you factor for unsold bowl game tix. The advent of HDTV makes it easy for fans to stay at home. Case in point:

Two losses means loser wrote:

OSU has 2 losses. The 1 loss teams deserve to be ranked ahead of them. It’s as simple as that. There’s all this talk about how complicated the system is but it’s as simple as wins and losses. The 1 loss teams are all in the top 4. All the 2 loss teams come after.

A lot of idiots on this thread. If it is simmple as that:

1. Why do you think 12-1 is Wisconsin behind 11-1 Alabama?

2. Why is 0 loss UCF behind 1 loss Alabama?

and Ohio State dominates USC...

If conference championships are to be considered at all, then it should be a requirement to be conference champ to get into the National Champ playoff, whether it remains at 4 games or an 8 game play off.

If player safety and education is actually cared for (and we know the NCAA doesn't), but if they did, the regular season would be mandated at 10 games, which would cut out some of those goddamn cupcake homecoming games that the big teams like to schedule.

Then 1 game for conference championship, and an 8 game play off where the top two teams would end up playing a total of 14 games. Let 5 of the 8 spots be the conference Champ of the power 5, and the other 3 be "wild cards" (but also have to be conference champ).

Yea, in a conference where there are other strong teams that lose the conference game (or don't even get there like Alabama), you'd be sitting at home. Well, take care of business in the regular season then!

I hate to even have to guarantee 5 spots to the power 5, but I guess I can understand that the majority of interest and money is with teams in those conferences, and ultimately, this is about money and entertainment, not fairness.

Very, very astute commentary my friend.

OP, this may go down as one of the greatest prediction threads on here. If this happens, an 8 team playoff is bound to happen with championship games being nixed and the top seeds playing at the lower seeds stadiums. BIG 10 would benefit big time from this.

you must have a lot of time on your hands wrote:

Yeah, they are meaningless. If they weren't, then other sports would have post-season games between teams who did not qualify for the championship tournament.

Your 2nd sentence has nothing to do with whether or not something is meaningless. It is evident that you have little or no idea what you're talking about. This is further evident by ou comparing football to other sports. Is your next complaint that football players are weaker than other athletes because football players compete only once per week?

If Alabama wins the entire thing, which they very well may, then there will be no second guessing the committee’s decision.

The PAC 12 was not a very good conference this year. Notre Dame embarrassed USC earlier this season.

Cicici wrote:

[quote]you must have a lot of time on your hands wrote:

Is your next complaint that football players are weaker than other athletes because football players compete only once per week?

What words did I say to make you draw that inference?

you must have a lot of time on your hands wrote:

Cicici wrote:

Bowls are not meaningless. I think you don't really know what you are talking about.

Yeah, they are meaningless. If they weren't, then other sports would have post-season games between teams who did not qualify for the championship tournament.

You mean like NCAA basketball and the NIT tournament?

right now, its left to Michigan, Wisco, and Penn St.

I would be most worried about michigan losing. Barkley is gonna run up and down on Washington and Wisco is a heckuva pigskin team that plays a smash mouth style that i dont think Miami will be able to handle.

--bigbois

Sara Palin wrote:

kaepfail wrote:

Answering my own question, it appears there are 14 (14!) teams in the "Big 10". Do they not know how to count?? #sad

14 is like a really big 10. Or maybe big 10 and little 4.

Just to complete your thought:

Colorado isn't on the Pacific.

Louisville isn't on the Atlantic Coast.

Missouri isn't in the South East.

Ten doesn't equal 12, and definitely not Big 12

Idaho isn't in the Sunbelt

Buffalo isn't in the Middle of America

The MWC are in the mountains, or in the west.

The C-USA teams are all in the USA.

The American teams all appear to be just that.

Do you guys have any clue how significant digits work? It's the Big 10, not the Big 10.0. Fourteen is a completely acceptable value of 10.