The committee loves Ohio State. Ridiculous. Cincinnati has more wins and a tougher schedule.
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2020 NCAA Football
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Sounds very likely next week vs Ohio State is out too, so the Big 10 will have to change its rules or OSU can’t play in the CCG even though they’ll play in the ... national championship game. Go figure
Playing Wisconsin is probably better for their resume than playing Northwestern
This is such a bad look from the big 10. Makes it seem like rules don’t apply to OSU. Because these rules are only being changed mid season because the NCAA’s darling hasn’t played Enough games. I doubt they pull this move for any other college.
View: https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1335319574506516485
View: https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1335319574506516485
So they should have just played their way through the pandemic instead of adjusting on the fly in the midst of a pandemic?
They were hastily made up rules before the season started and the league understands that it would be absurd to put the best team in the conference in the position to be eliminated because of Covid. And those hastily made rules will probably be changed because Ohio State has a chance to make the playoffs and that helps the entire league.
I don't get the teeth gnashing. It's not like Ohio State isn't backing it up on the field.
Yeah, I can't imagine a worse look than leaving what's clearly been the best team in the conference out of the conference championship because of the technicality of a makeshift rule... especially when it's the league's lack of a plan over the past several months that's at fault. The B1G was never going to commit such a self-inflicted injury. Either the Buckeyes play in the championship game or there is no championship game. That's not favoritism to tOSU, the same would stand for whatever team was dominating the conference. I get that people who hate them were all giddy over the chance they could get screwed over – if it was Alabama and the SEC, I'd love to see a ridiculous rule upheld too – but it wouldn't make it the right decision.
Yeah, definitely, the Big 10 definitely does more for Ohio State than Ohio State does for the Big 10.
I have no idea why you have lost your marbles on this topic.
In this Covid world, Ohio State could always play Indiana again. ESPN hinting as much in its early coverage.
Funny, the U. Of Rhode Island men’s hoop team got invited to play Wisconsin on short notice. The big story from URI is how Wisconsin chartered a plane to fly the Rams out and back. The Big Ten has money!
Funny, the U. Of Rhode Island men’s hoop team got invited to play Wisconsin on short notice. The big story from URI is how Wisconsin chartered a plane to fly the Rams out and back. The Big Ten has money!
I’m sorry but if it was say Purdue (instead of OSU) with the same record and performance that OSU has shown this year, I highly doubt they would bend the rules for them because Purdue is not OSU.
nonetheless
Purdue has canceled it’s practice today
View: https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1336383307995615233
wonder if the big10 is pulling strings for an OSU VS IU rematch.
Yeah, it just might be hate, but irrational hate in this instance.
It's not like this 6 game rule is a 100 year bedrock of NCAA football tradition. It was an arbitrary rule, set arbitrarily, in a season that was hastily put together. It's not the Rosetta Stone. You don't fuck over your biggest team for some silly rule because teams got Covid.
Now that would be arbitrary.
Great idea - BYU vs. Coastal Carolina was scheduled later in the week than we are now, wasn't it? (No chance that Ohio St. would agree to this, mind you...particularly given that Notre Dame might beat Clemson in the ACC Championship Game, which would knock out the Tigers and leave space for two of Ohio St., Texas A&M and Florida, the latter assuming an upset over Alabama in the SEC title game.)
(BTW the only reason I am using Ohio a bunch is because they are in the same division as IU and (at least this year are playing the same damn schedule) so its an easier comparison point, at least for this year)
With that out of the way can anyone explain to me WTF type of Logic this is by the CFB playoff committee on why IU did not even move up one spot in the most recent rankings released yesterday despite beating a RANKED WISCONSIN team? (they were also 12th in the past CFB playoff rankings)
Re the bolded.. How the fudge does that make any sense? IU has beat 3 ranked teams this year, the only other CFB team to do that this year is ALABAMA.
When IU played them those three teams were ranked, and then IU won, so shouldn't those count as ranked wins? and if the CFB committee logic is "well they are no longer ranked currently so they are not really ranked wins" than why is OSU ranked because they are playing the same damn schedule as Indiana, and by CFB logic IU (the only team that OSU beat that is currently ranked) should not be ranked currently since they have not beaten any ranked teams this year (which would mean OSU also has no ranked wins this year)
CC @Detts
With that out of the way can anyone explain to me WTF type of Logic this is by the CFB playoff committee on why IU did not even move up one spot in the most recent rankings released yesterday despite beating a RANKED WISCONSIN team? (they were also 12th in the past CFB playoff rankings)
https://hoosierhuddle.com/hoosier-blog/indiana-comes-in-at-number-in-latest-college-football-playoff-ranking/2020/12/8
Re the bolded.. How the fudge does that make any sense? IU has beat 3 ranked teams this year, the only other CFB team to do that this year is ALABAMA.
When IU played them those three teams were ranked, and then IU won, so shouldn't those count as ranked wins? and if the CFB committee logic is "well they are no longer ranked currently so they are not really ranked wins" than why is OSU ranked because they are playing the same damn schedule as Indiana, and by CFB logic IU (the only team that OSU beat that is currently ranked) should not be ranked currently since they have not beaten any ranked teams this year (which would mean OSU also has no ranked wins this year)
CC @Detts
What you're missing is that the committee is allowed to speak out of both sides of their mouth.
He’s also missing the idea that Indiana is new to the football party and must pay its dues for several years.
I'm usually in favor of geography in sports, especially college, but I sort of feel the B1G needs to be realigned. The East is much stronger, even after Rutgers putting immense downward pressure.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30486292/lsu-football-self-imposes-one-year-bowl-ban-2020-season
LSU self-imposes a one year bowl ban for this season. Easier to do when you are 3-5, I think.
LSU self-imposes a one year bowl ban for this season. Easier to do when you are 3-5, I think.
I think they just wanted to pass on the bowl this season, and their fans would have taken that worse than BC's fans, for example. And this way, 2 birds, one stone.
They would have surely have been selected otherwise, given their rabid fan base, proximity to locations of many bowls, and so many blue-state teams passing and the rule against below .500 teams being sidelined this year.
They would have surely have been selected otherwise, given their rabid fan base, proximity to locations of many bowls, and so many blue-state teams passing and the rule against below .500 teams being sidelined this year.
ESPN just bought the exclusive right for all SEC football and basketball games starting in 2024. A 10 year agreement.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30492065/sec-espn-strike-10-year-deal-college-football-basketball-starting-2024
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30492065/sec-espn-strike-10-year-deal-college-football-basketball-starting-2024
I mean, this is the correct answer. Hard to justify claims of "unfairness" if you can't beat tOSU on the field.
I should note that I'm not exactly saying this as a fan of the school to the South. But they have been the dominant football power in the conference for some time.
Yikes. Death for CBS afternoon SEC games. Still, probably makes mathematic sense for Viacom to not match.
Meant to post this here...so, what happens if there's a virus outbreak this week and one of the conference championship games have to be postponed? Will they be played the day after Christmas? Or what about the playoff games? Will other bowl games - especially the NY6 - get postponed, or just cancelled? Seems to me that the odds of one of the scenarios happening has to be at least 50-50, the way COVID is spreading across the country at the moment.
I eagerly await Auburn's inevitable choice as the next average-to-above-average replacement coach. I hope whoever it is continues the "Lightning in a Bottle" tradition demonstrated within the first 2 seasons of his hiring by Chizik (2010) and Malzahn (2013).
Is the idea that you work for God for a couple years and it gives you absolution?
Ha! Speaking of .... Briles just resigned. I think he'll actually be Texas Tech's next offensive coordinator before Liberty. Tech just fired their OC a few minutes before Briles' announcement.
I know this doesn't directly answer your question but it comes pretty close. The catch here is that they literally wrote the rules to replace the infected team with the 2nd place team, so the direct answer to your question is probably: it depends on the conference and their contingencies.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/30519848/oregon-ducks-replace-washington-huskies-pac-12-title-game
Brian Kelly and Dabo are both going off about the possibility that playoff teams who are sent to the Rose Bowl for their semifinal game will not be play in front of their families because of local COVID restrictions. It's hard to argue that it's dumb to fly two teams to a COVID hotbed so that they could play a game in front of nobody, but they are both going in pretty hot about it.
Pull quote is Kelly saying that the committee would be "worshiping the ashes of tradition" by keeping the game at the Rose Bowl, which is (a) very funny coming from ND, but (b) an absolutely fire bar. Something to keep an eye on in any event.
Pull quote is Kelly saying that the committee would be "worshiping the ashes of tradition" by keeping the game at the Rose Bowl, which is (a) very funny coming from ND, but (b) an absolutely fire bar. Something to keep an eye on in any event.
It was just announced that the Rose Bowl is being moved to Arlington, Texas so fans can attend.
It's weird how Arlington is the center of the sports universe this year, even though the Rangers and Cowboys both sucked.
The Brigham Young jokes write themselves:
View: https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1340516832604729344
View: https://twitter.com/Brett_McMurphy/status/1340516832604729344
PSU passing on any bowl opportunities
https://www.wearecentralpa.com/sports/nittany-nation/penn-state-football-will-not-play-in-a-bowl-game/
https://www.wearecentralpa.com/sports/nittany-nation/penn-state-football-will-not-play-in-a-bowl-game/