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General Category => Halas Hall Football Forum => Topic started by: No one in Mn on November 27, 2020, 08:18:34 PM
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Well, not all of em.
Ryan Day with the Covid.
tOSU ain't sayin what/if players are impacted. More team testing today, then travel tomorrow morning.
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Game canceled by tOSU.
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Game canceled by tOSU.
Consider that a victory for the U of I
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Consider that a victory for the U of I
Agreed
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Consider that a victory for the U of I
A victory for IU.
If OSU loses one more game to COVID - which could happen if this outbreak is big enough - then we'll be seeing Northwestern/Indiana for the Big Ten title. That would pretty much sum up 2020
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A victory for IU.
If OSU loses one more game to COVID - which could happen if this outbreak is big enough - then we'll be seeing Northwestern/Indiana for the Big Ten title. That would pretty much sum up 2020
Having Nebraska and PSU demand to play so Indiana can nab our best bowl slot is damn near perfect.
Claim the Illibuck and take by force if necessary. Wear a hazmat suit.
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I wonder how many cut outs the Bucknuts planned to bring to the game. 2-3 bus loads ?
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Last night took the kids to see Christmas lights and got a pizza to go. Stopped to get gas on way back and an older man decked out in Ohio State gear from head to toe shuffled out the door (sans mask) as I was walking in.
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Last night took the kids to see Christmas lights and got a pizza to go. Stopped to get gas on way back and an older man decked out in Ohio State gear from head to toe shuffled out the door (sans mask) as I was walking in.
You get the pizza from Casey's when you were getting gas?
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You get the pizza from Casey's when you were getting gas?
Well done. lol.
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You get the pizza from Casey's when you were getting gas?
Well of course. I had Casey’s rewards points!
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A victory for IU.
If OSU loses one more game to COVID - which could happen if this outbreak is big enough - then we'll be seeing Northwestern/Indiana for the Big Ten title. That would pretty much sum up 2020
Not necessarily, though the bigger issue is likely with the CFP Committee. A teams with 1 loss playing 9 or 10 games might have an argument if OSU only plays, say, 5 (and is undefeated). There is an exception to the 6 game requirement for B1G Ten Conference Football Championship Game consideration. Per the B1G Ten:
"A team must play at least six games to be considered for participation in the championship game.
However, if the average number of conference games played by all teams falls below six, with the average
rounded up/down at .50 (i.e. 6.50 or greater would round up to 7, 6.49 or less would round down to 6),
then teams must play no less than two fewer conference games than the average number of conference
games played by all teams (i.e. four games played if the conference average is six) to be considered."
https://bigten.org/documents/2020/10/22/2020_Big_Ten_Football_Tiebreakers.pdf
The current average games played by all teams is 4.4286 (62 games/14 teams) before the games this week (Friday/Saturday). That number would be rounded down to 4 per the above exception. So games cancelled involving other teams besides Ohio State will impact the calculation.
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Don't worry, the conference will figure out a way to get O$U in the conference championship game.
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OSU is probably one of the best 4 teams in the country, but the B1G was, in retrospect, kind of stupid for starting the season right when all the experts predicted COVID to explode. There are plenty of really valid reasons for the delay, but the conference just didn’t leave itself any outs once they decided to play.
The B1G is so bad this year OSU would have been heavily favored to run the table even if they played everyone in the B1G on the road. So even while it’s pretty safe to assume that they’d be 9-0 rather than 6-0 or whatever, it’s not really fair to the conferences that have had to actually play all their slated games through thick and thin, imo.
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Don't worry, the conference will figure out a way to get O$U in the conference championship game.
I'm already working on it...