Tie Breakers

H

Hawk1987

Member
I keep hearing Wisconsin has to lose again in order for the Hawks to make it to Indy. This is obviously very likely with them traveling to Happy Valley.

However, if Iowa wins out, Wisconsin wins out and assuming Northwestern’s only loss is to Iowa, they’d all only have two losses.

Iowa loses to Wisconsin, Northwestern beat Wisconsin, Iowa beat Northwestern.

Anyone know how’d this shake out? Doesn’t seam like head to head would be the factor.
 
Last edited:
bump....I'm curious about this to. What happens if Iowa, Wisco, and Northwestern are all tied with 2 losses a piece?
 
I think it comes down to overall record of the east division teams each team plays. Both Wisconsin and northwestern play Rutgers so that's a good start to helping us. But both teams also play Michigan so that hurts us. We would obviously need Wisconsin to get eliminated in that tie breaker so it goes head to head with us and northwestern. I think northwestern's 3rd team is Michigan state, so we need them to have a better record than Penn state.

Now that I think about it, with Indiana and Maryland we are probably screwed. They need to have a better combined record than Michigan and Rutgers.
 
Hawk1987 said:
I keep hearing Wisconsin has to lose again in order for the Hawks to make it to Indy. This is obviously very likely with them traveling to Happy Valley.

However, if Iowa wins out, Wisconsin wins out and assuming Northwestern’s only loss is to Iowa, they’d all only have two losses.

Iowa loses to Wisconsin, Wisconsin beat Northwestern, Iowa beat Northwestern.

Anyone know how’d this shake out? Doesn’t seam like head to head would be the factor.
Click to expand...

I hate to tell you but wisconsin didnt beat jNW
 
Next week Maryland is at home against MSU. That would be a big game for us. Week 12 Maryland and Indiana play Michigan and OSU so that's not good for us at all.
 
We lose a 3 team tiebreaker, barring a miracle. We need to win out. Wiscy will lose another game.
 
PCHawk said:
Next week Maryland is at home against MSU. That would be a big game for us. Week 12 Maryland and Indiana play Michigan and OSU so that's not good for us at all.
Click to expand...
PSU beating Michigan would help to but not sure we could get there.
 
I actually like our position better than Wiscy’s. They don’t control their own destiny either. They have to win out and they still have @PSU and @Purdue. We at least should be favored in all our remaining games. We play NW which is the only team that controls their destiny.
 
hawkinn3 said:
We will lose to Purdue and Northwestern
Click to expand...
There’s a good probability of this. Any talk of winning the West is typical Iowa fan optimism. We never should be even in these situations with a cakewalk conference schedule like this was. We could get beat by Nebraska and I’m not even joking.
 
Last edited:
1. The records of the three tied teams will be compared against each other.

2. The records of the three tied teams will be compared within their division.

3. The records of the three teams will be compared against the next highest placed teams in their division in order of finish (4, 5, 6, and 7).
(a) When arriving at a group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record against the collective tied teams as a group, rather than record against the individual teams.

4. The records of the three teams will be compared against all common conference opponents.

5. The best cumulative conference winning percentage of non-divisional opponents.
(a) Example: East 1 non-divisional opponents are 20-7, East 2 non-divisional opponents are 19-8, East 3 non-divisional opponents are 14-13 - East 1 would be the representative.

6. The records of the three teams will be compared against the highest placed non-divisional teams in their division order of finish (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7).

(a) When arriving at a group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record against the collective tied teams as a group, rather than record against the individual teams.

(b) When comparing records against a single team or a group of teams, the record will prevail, even if the number of games played against the team or group are unequal (i.e. 1-0 is better than 0-0, 2-0 is better than 1-0, etc.)

7. The team with the best overall winning percentage [excluding exempted games] shall be the representative.

8. The representative will be chosen by random draw.
 
vork22 said:
There’s a good probability of this. Any talk of winning the West is typical Iowa fan optimism. We never should be even in these situations with a cakewalk conference schedule like this was. We could get beat by Nebraska and I’m not even joking.
Click to expand...

Well be playing for nothing and completely checked out by then so I find this likely. We are going to see an all time collapse this season mostly due to the team having no leaders.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Latest posts

Share this page

Top