[NU Sports] Thinking the unthinkable

[Jonathan Hodges]

Personally, I don't even want to consider this possibility until much later
in the season, as the 'Cats have 7 very challenging games ahead of them,
starting with Michigan State in 2 weeks.  There are still many potential
pitfalls in NU's schedule and I would worry about winning those games well
before worrying about national perception.  If NU wins games and takes care
of business, the media attention will follow.  And with the parity we've
seen in college football so far (USC, Georgia, and Florida all going down
this weekend, and that's not even counting last year's mahem) I wouldn't
pencil in wins for anyone.

Penn State obviously has been the most impressive Big Ten team thus far, but
they still have to face Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ohio State in consecutive
weeks - not exactly an easy task.

With a grueling 12 game schedule and more equality across the college
football landscape, I would not be surprised at all to see more one loss
teams vying for a chance in the national championship.

Jonathan

On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Ben Adler <whosonfirst81 at yahoo.com> 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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