A Talking Point on a National Championship Game

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jameskalina

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This post probably does not sit well with some of you, but as a talking point if the Hawks went 12-0 this past season along with Oregon and Auburn would Iowa have been invited to the NC game?

Or would a 12-0 Iowa team have been shut out of the NC game and paired up against a 12-0 TCU in the Rose Bowl? I call this Iowa TCU match up a "poor mans" national championship game.

I'm posting this to get your thoughts on how well Iowa sat from a national perspective back in August compared to Auburn and Oregon.
 


Good question, and I'm not sure a 12-0 Iowa would have still played for the title, Oregon jumped Iowa after week 2 so I don't think Iowa would have jumped them the rest of the year. And I think there would have been enough SEC bias that voters would have jumped Auburn over Iowa just because the last time Auburn went undefeated (2004) they didn't get a shot and the voters wouldn't do that to them again.
 


I just heard on the radio that Auburn's schedule included 6 games against teams in the top 30, so they had that going for them.
 


Yes, a 12-0 Iowa doesn't have the appeal a 12-0 Auburn team or a 12-0 Oregon team. However if the BCS computers would have liked Iowa's schedule over Oregon's then yes Iowa vs. Auburn would have occurred.
Hard to say, Oregon really added style points especially early on, that really grabbed the east coast media's attention.
Would have been a bummer to have a once in a lifetime season shot to hell, without the NC opportunity.
 


Hawkize1 said:
Yes, a 12-0 Iowa doesn't have the appeal a 12-0 Auburn team or a 12-0 Oregon team. However if the BCS computers would have liked Iowa's schedule over Oregon's then yes Iowa vs. Auburn would have occurred.
Hard to say, Oregon really added style points especially early on, that really grabbed the east coast media's attention.
Would have been a bummer to have a once in a lifetime season shot to hell, without the NC opportunity.
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That's the thing, for some reason the computers hated Iowa more than Oregon this year, and why I don't think Iowa would have jumped them after week 2.
 


jameskalina said:
This post probably does not sit well with some of you, but as a talking point if the Hawks went 12-0 this past season along with Oregon and Auburn would Iowa have been invited to the NC game?

Or would a 12-0 Iowa team have been shut out of the NC game and paired up against a 12-0 TCU in the Rose Bowl? I call this Iowa TCU match up a "poor mans" national championship game.

I'm posting this to get your thoughts on how well Iowa sat from a national perspective back in August compared to Auburn and Oregon.
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I like the potential of the silver lining perspective to this season - just as well Iowa didn't go 12-0 and deal with the injustice of not being in the NC game.
 


It woulda been Auburn vs Iowa in Glendale, with Oregon vs TCU in the Rose, your "poor man's NC" The computers would have loved our schedule as compared to Oregon's one good win ... also, in that scenario, Mich State gets a BCS game
 






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