HawkeyeMike23
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Just bet against your team, and if they win, consider it a victory tax.
Vegas sets the O/U at 8.5 wins
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Just bet against your team, and if they win, consider it a victory tax.
rschneider
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Oh I care, I'm more of an Iowa freak than most though. Add in the fact that Wisconsin and Mich St have been to Pasadena recently makes it that much more painful. Living in Colorado also sets my hopes on a Cali or Arizona bowl game. Iowa's fans need this, they have forgotten how to represent.
HawksRule98
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You do realize that there is almost a ZERO percent chance that Iowa can possibly play in Pasadena this year, even if they win the Big Ten championship, right? They would actually have to make the playoffs, and even then it would only be a 50/50 shot as to whether they play in the Rose or the Sugar. The Big Ten champ does not get an automatic bid this year.
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If you think Iowa can win the B1G, then they have a better than 0% chance to make the Rose Bowl. If a B1G rep makes the playoff, and I believe the champion of the conference has a pretty good chance to do so, they will likely be slotted in the Rose for the semifinal game.
That said, this is the year Iowa will win the conference with a 10-2 record and play in the Cotton Bowl. Meanwhile, Illinois and Wisconsin are sending absolute turds to Pasadena.
HawksRule98
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You really don't understand how this works, do you? Iowa can "win the B1G" technically with 3 or 4 losses. Simply "winning the B1G" is going to have little or no bearing on making the playoff. To do that with one of the weakest major conference schedules in the country like Iowa has, they will certainly have to go 13-0. That is about as close to a "zero percent" chance as anything you are going to find right now. Let's go ahead and call it 1%, which is even being fairly generous. And even THEN they would only have a 50% chance of playing in Pasadena, which was the original point of the post. So 50% of that 1% now becomes a 0.5% chance. Pretty damn close to zero. Go back, re-read the initial post, then come back here and apologize. We'll all wait for you.
Wrong again, chief. Conference tie-ins are irrelevant when it comes to the playoff seeding process. You really need to start reading up on some of this stuff as you're embarrassing yourself pretty good here.
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BLKNGOLD48
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Have we had an "official" prediction thread yet? I haven't been around in a while 
MiniMoeHawk
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Only if you are drinking the kool aid. The team you follow is the best team to wager on if you take emotion out of it.
BigD
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guffus
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Although I agree the odds are low, If Iowa were to go 12-1 with a Big Ten CCG game victory over a 12-1 OSU, that should be enough to make the CFP and possibly the Rose Bowl.
What is this 'Rose Bowl' you speak of?
