[NU Sports] Thinking the unthinkable

[Ben Adler]

Okay, this is getting way ahead of things, but I had this argument with two of my NU friends today.

Say we go 12-0 (yeah, right).  Are we guaranteed to make the national championship game?  Our strength of schedule is pretty poor (no PSU, no Wisky, weak non-conference slate), and there's a huge lack of respect for the Big Ten right now.  Could a one-loss team jump ahead of us?

My friends say, no way - any undefeated BCS team would never lose out to a one-loss team.  But I'm not sold.  I guess it's the reporter in me, but looking at this thing without my purple-colored glasses, I'm not sure our case would be strong enough to come out ahead of a one-loss school like, say, USC.

On the bright side, at least we'd go to Pasadena...