MelroseHawkins
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Agree. ND needs to take a loss, which I think they will at some point.
Hawks are in the playoff
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Agree. ND needs to take a loss, which I think they will at some point.
MelroseHawkins
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There is a precedent that shapes what would need to happen for a 1-loss Iowa to get in. (First, remember that the odds we run the table are very, very small)
If we face a highly ranked team in the CCG and absolutely destroy them, we could possibly jump over other highly ranked teams with 1 loss and a bigger “name.” I am thinking back to when OSU blistered Wisky in the CCG. They were on the outside looking in, but the margin of victory and completeness of their win allowed them to jump over a team or 2 in the final ranking in order to get into the playoff.
If we face a highly ranked team in the CCG and absolutely destroy them, we could possibly jump over other highly ranked teams with 1 loss and a bigger “name.” I am thinking back to when OSU blistered Wisky in the CCG. They were on the outside looking in, but the margin of victory and completeness of their win allowed them to jump over a team or 2 in the final ranking in order to get into the playoff.
MelroseHawkins
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New, why does he get to eat a new shoe? I've got perfectly good (well bad) used shoes in my closet. Oh, I generally keep shoes for years.
Fryowa
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If it'll increase the odds that he actually eats it, I'll pony up $75. He can even keep the single leftover shoe.
InGoodCo
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LOL, sounds like a plan. I am not worried at all about that prediction cause it's never gonna happen.
There's only gonna be 1 undefeated team if that at the end. There's just tons of years of history to support that in the CFB era were conference championship games are played. It not impossible, it just doesn't happen enough that I am confident to bet whatever you'd like even if it's eating some Kswiss.
That means, if one of these teams lose later in the year, they are bound to fall behind an Iowa team that is in the act of "winning out" .... that includes ND. If ND loses, this late in the year? and Iowa wins out - and ND is idle the last week of the season and Iowa is playing in the B1G championship against top 5 TOSU or UM? Iowa would probably be ranked in the top 6 in that scenario? No chance, the 1 loss B1G champ is going in.
NW is not eligible, they have 2 loses.
Iowa has shown that it CAN beat TOSU and pretty much owns Michigan, so let's not act like that would really be a miracle from GOD. Iowa, UM and TOSU are the only teams alive still in the B1G and if any of them win out and win the B1G championship, they are in the playoff.
edit: I don't think Iowa is going to win out.... but I will say it again, no 1 loss B1G champ is ever getting left out in the CFB playoffs unless by some weird freak accident that multiple undefeated teams are in. And even in that case, I still think the B1G probably would get in with 1 loss. Especially THIS year
Only 1 loss Big ten team Notre Dame would get in ahead of is Michigan since they beat them.
Agree 100%!!! Especially when left out last year. If left out two years in a row there would be a revolution. Jim Delaney will be paying a visit.
Northwestern has too many losses. We are talking a 1 loss Big Ten Champ only.
Fryowa
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I understand your sentiment but this is a committee choosing teams by opinion, not by any numbers or formulas, or qualifiers. You can't say for sure that ND wouldn't get in with any more certainty than I can say they would. Every single year there's controversy on who gets chosen and who doesn't. That committee doesn't always make rational decisions because they have to choose 4 teams out of 6 or so that are almost all equally qualified.
nice try westender to keep us wstching and posting but the hawks do not control the so called destiny
Sure they do, at least until about 6:30pm CST tomorrow and if that is a win then at least until the next game at Purdue. We lost to Wisconsin and it was not a bad loss and it was relatively early. hawks do control own destiny.
SmokeTownHawk
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One game at a time. Time to skin some cats first.
Not if Wisky wins out , wisky basically has a 1/2 game lead on Iowa in the all important loss column because of their tie breaker win over Iowa. since all of these teams are playing each other we are not going to see a 3 way tie with teams with one loss that would negate the head to head tiebreaker.
Wisky still controls their own destiny because if they win out they give at least a 2nd loss to jNW and Purdue and Wisky would only have one loss.
Ask others on this site who is in the cat bird seat.
I guess you should poll, but I would lay coin on Wisky losing another game. Probably 2.
dahlhawk
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Wow, I effectively have won the Powerball tomorrow, until I don't. Socrates would be proud.
Linesetter
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You do realize Wisky is likely without their best WR, 3/4’s of their secondary, their starting QB, 2-defensive lineman, and 8-starters overall? Wisconsin isn’t very good. But Wisconsin isn’t the same team personnel-wise that received all the pre-season pub. It goes beyond normal course of the season injuries up there. Cephus was a legal issue.
HawkeyeDenis
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This is a 4 game sudden death playoff. Or you can equate it to...Survivor. One will be voted off the island today! Possibly more!
