[NU Sports] Thinking the unthinkable

[cherron604 at aol.com]

On a parallel thread (equally unthinkable), I had a similar discussion with my nephew.

Would you rather play in the mythical National Championship game, or in the all too real Rose Bowl ?

I remain happy to this day that there was no National Championship game in 95 - I believe that we were ranked #2 in the last regular season poll, but not sure how the selections would have gone down.

I would've hated to miss out on the Rose Bowl experience (even though we lost).

I have spoken to some Illini fans who still regret missing out on the Rose Bowl when Ron Turner won the league title.

My guess is that since Penn State is already ranked well ahead of us, if we both went 12-0, Jim Delaney would pull some sleight of hand and get PSU into the National Title game (amid much complaining from?either the SEC or the Big 12, and even more complaining from the Mountain West guys), and we could get a Rose Bowl rematch, with (hopefully) everybody fully eligible on the Trojans...

Chuck Herron?? Tech '85?


-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Adler <whosonfirst81 at yahoo.com>
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Sent: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 9:04 pm
Subject: [NU Sports] Thinking the unthinkable



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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