Mich on the ropes..

[57stratdawg]

@ Iowa.

 

[57stratdawg]

Game wining FG attempt coming up

 

[tatedog]

I just knew he would miss it. That's what the last two years have done to me.

 

[57stratdawg]

Got it! 2, 3 and 4 go down today.

 

[tatedog]

I knew we would make history today and we did. We will make a fine answer to an Aflac trivia question for Gary Danielson to have a chuckle over one day.

 

[LawDawg97]

I'm betting OSU replaces Washington, but

Got it! 2, 3 and 4 go down today.

Clemson and Michigan stay in. I bet they keep Louisville out so they get the Michigan v OSU top 4 matchup

 

[Leeshouldveflanked]

Pepto Bismol Pink locker room paid off....

 

[57stratdawg]

It'll be interesting. I want to see them have to make a choice in the final rankings.

How will they decide between 1 loss Mich/OSU, Louisville, Washington and Clemson.

I really want this to be a **** storm.

 

[tatedog]

You can cross Washington off--their schedule isn't good enough to suffer a loss. If somebody wins the ACC with 1 loss they are likely in, same for Big 10 champion.

 

[57stratdawg]

Still leaves a spot for Washington.

Honestly, it seems chaotic, but I think Clemson, Washington, Mich and Ohio State all still control their own destiny.

 

[tatedog]

Yeah that scenario does leave a 4th spot open. Perhaps if Louisville and Clemson both win out, they could both get in. I just don't like UW's chances at all though. They were excluded before suffering a home loss, so the committee doesn't think much of them. No doubt the big winner in today's chaos was the ACC as they have to really screw things up to get totally left out at this point-- and could back into getting two in.

 

[Bulldogg31]

Doesn't matter. There in 1 good team in NCAA this year and they beat the hell out of us today.

 

[tatedog]

It's hard to see anyone beating them right now, but LSU actually showed a decent defensive blueprint for slowing them down.

 

[WrapItDog]

If Ohio State beats Michigan. Penn State could win the division and Ohio State not make the Conf. Championship game.

 

[IBleedMaroonDawg]

Got it! 2, 3 and 4 go down today.

Nice to see Harbaugh lose.

 

[tatedog]

It's pretty crazy that OSU, PSU and Mich are all in the same division. I guess they wanted to avoid OSU and Michigan playing back to back games, but still that's almost as unbalanced as the SEC.

 

[Go Budaw]

It'll be interesting. I want to see them have to make a choice in the final rankings.

How will they decide between 1 loss Mich/OSU, Louisville, Washington and Clemson.

I really want this to be a **** storm.

In the scenario you laid out, it's actually pretty easy. You drop Louisville. You can't put a 1-loss non-conference champion in over a 1-loss conference champion that also won the head to head matchup. No way in hell that would ever fly.

 

[stateguy]

Pepto Bismol Pink locker room paid off....

Wasn't the pink
http://www.espn.com/college-footbal...es-remodel-iowa-hawkeyes-visiting-locker-room

 

[Dogariffic]

With so many teams outside the SEC in contention they will want to speed up increasing the playoffs to 8 teams.

 

[patdog]

How will they decide between 1 loss Mich/OSU, Louisville, Washington and Clemson.

They'll take the conference champions. Simple as that. They'll leave a conference leader out of the top 4 during the season. But at the end, when push comes to shove, they're going to take 4 of the champions of the 5 major conferences. Big 12 is going to get left out again, so that leaves SEC, ACC, Big 12 & PAC 12. I think the only way they take a 1-loss non-conference champion is if at least 2 of the champions have 2 losses, which could happen.

 

[patdog]

Yeah, but you've got to have LSU's defense to do it, and play at home in Tiger Stadium at night. Don't see anyone else even coming close to shutting Bama down like they did.

 

[MSUDC11]

I think Ohio State is 2nd this week and after that it's a crap shoot.

I bet we see:

1. Bama
2. OSU
3. Clemson
4. Michigan
5. Louisville
6. Wisconsin

 

[DawgatAuburn]

They'll take the conference champions. Simple as that.
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I think the only way they take a 1-loss non-conference champion is if at least 2 of the champions have 2 losses, which could happen.

^^^^^Graduated from the Coach34 School of Hedging Your Bets.

 

[patdog]

How is that hedging my bets? If there are 4 conference champs with 1 loss, they'll take the conference champions. If there are only 3 conference champions with 1 loss, they'll take a 1-loss non-champion. It's not that hard to understand. Read the question my first sentence was specifically responding to. Hint, it did not include any 2-loss teams.

 

[patdog]

3 of the 4 major conferences with divisions are seriously unbalanced. And it's going to bite one of them in the *** one day when a 2 or 3 loss winner of the weaker division wins the championship game. That's a good way to get left out of the playoffs.