[NU Sports] Thinking the unthinkable

[John Labbe]

Speaking of Pasadena (and as fans, I think we can dream about these  
kind of things early in the season), Wisconsin's loss today was big  
because we don't play them.  But assume we win out and Penn State also  
wins out, who goes to the Rose Bowl?  Do we go because PSU was in the  
Orange Bowl after the 2005 season, so they would lose the tie-breaker  
as the team getting the BCS selection more recently?  Or does that not  
matter anymore?

As to whether 12-0 would guarantee us a spot in the national  
championship game, I would just say that there's a lot of football  
left to be played before that issue can be analyzed.




On Sep 27, 2008, at 9:04 PM, Ben Adler wrote:

> 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...
>
>
>
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