[NU Sports] Thinking the unthinkable

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The short answer John, and in a way also Ben, would be we go to the Rose
Bowl because Penn State would be in the National Championship Game.

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On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 10:16 PM, John Labbe <johnl at mac.com> wrote:

> 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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