[NU Sports] Thinking the unthinkable

[jhcclark at aol.com]

Here are the tie-breakers for two teams for the Rose Bowl (note, the BCS Championship game is decided by the Coaches Poll, not the Big Ten Rules).  Also note the new #3 below -- Penn State played Coastal Carolina, so it doesn't apply, but still, interesting:

Rose Bowl. Unless ranked No. 1 or No. 2 in the final BCS poll, the
conference champion shall participate in the Rose Bowl. The
championship shall be determined on the percentage basis of conference
games (tie games counts ½ win and ½ loss). If there is a tie for the
championship, the Rose Bowl representative will be determined as
follows:


    An ineligible team shall not be considered in the standings for determination of the conference representative.


    If there is a tie for the championship, the winner of the game between these two teams shall represent the conference.


 If there is still a tie for the championship, or if the tied
teams did not play each other, the team that played more games against
Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) teams shall be eliminated.


 If there is still a tie, or if the tied teams did not play
each other, or if both teams played the same number of games against an
FCS team(s), the representative shall be determined on the percentage
basis of all games played.


    If there is still a tie, the most recent team earning BCS automatic selection shall be eliminated.


The tie-breaker goes to us per # 5.

http://bigten.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/102204aad.html


 

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From: John Labbe <johnl at mac.com>
To: Ben Adler <whosonfirst81 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 10:16 pm
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] Thinking the unthinkable









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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