OSU v UM Axed

[HFCS]

DATA POINTS

12 DATA POINTS BAD - NOT ENOUGH!!!!!! NEED 13 DATA POINTS!!!!!!!!

 

[mcblogerson]

This is exactly what I hoped would happen. Michigan throws in the towel to burn OSU. The B10 will cancel the champ game since OSU isnt in it.

OSU will still slide into the playoff b/c of name recognition, but there is a chance they get burned and then everyone is upset.

 

[Sigmapolis]

Big Ten schools litigating against each other over one of them trying to steal a conference championship?

 

[BCClone]

Like scoring an A in class with the beginning grading scale of 90 for an A and then they say whoops it’s 98/96/94/92. That’s an F after semester tests to Indy.

 

[Clonefan32]

It's almost like having a plan and spending months solidifying the plan while allowing individual schools to also prepare themselves for a barely abbreviated season that starts at a normal time is better than canceling, forcing schools and coaches to spend their time rallying the conference to play and then hastily putting together a season while no one was bought into playing said season. Go Big Ten. You guys did a bang up job.

Who could have seen this coming when they tried to pack 8 games into 8 weeks in the middle of a pandemic...?

Pure idiocrasy from their leadership.

 

[HFCS]

It's almost like having a plan and spending months solidifying the plan while allowing individual schools to also prepare themselves for a barely abbreviated season that starts at a normal time is better than canceling, forcing schools and coaches to spend their time rallying the conference to play and then hastily putting together a season while no one was bought into playing said season. Go Big Ten. You guys did a bang up job.

I really can't wait.

12 games vs 13 games...yeah we really can't tell if the team with only 12 games is actually good

5/6 games vs 11 games...oh we know for sure the 5 game team is awesome compared to 11 game teams

The CFPC might as well be a mob meeting.

 

[DeereClone]

Uh what is there to determine and collaborate on? Rules and determinations are set aren’t they?

 

[kirk89gt]

Do you think if this situation was playing out in the Big 12 and it was OU or UT under the microscope, would our league offices be behaving the same way (trying to find ways to get them in)?

 

[DeereClone]

Do you think if this situation was playing out in the Big 12 and it was OU or UT under the microscope, would our league offices be behaving the same way (trying to find ways to get them in)?

Probably

 

[DeereClone]

I really can't wait.

12 games vs 13 games...yeah we really can't tell if the team with only 12 games is actually good

5/6 games vs 11 games...oh we know for sure the 5 game team is awesome compared to 11 game teams

The CFPC might as well be a mob meeting.

The CFPC is the most corrupt thing in sports and the absolute worst way of determining who plays for a championship.

 

[HFCS]

Do you think if this situation was playing out in the Big 12 and it was OU or UT under the microscope, would our league offices be behaving the same way (trying to find ways to get them in)?

Big 12 would be finding ways to get OU/UT more games...but the committee wouldn't give a flying **** if they already had Notre Dame, Big Ten team, and Alabama Clemson. The committee really only exists to help the Big Ten. The SEC doesn't need any help.

Committee will be complete hypocrites telling us a 5-6 data point team with one decent win is definitely top 4 back when TCU was an eyelash from undefeated and 12 data points disqualified them.

 

[MeanDean]

Do you think if this situation was playing out in the Big 12 and it was OU or UT under the microscope, would our league offices be behaving the same way (trying to find ways to get them in)?

Yeah, but it isn't. It's the B1G and their golden child tOSU. So pass the popcorn. This is must see TV!

 

[tman24]

I say Ohio St play Texas A&M. Their game is cancelled. Winner gets the #4 spot.

 

[HFCS]

The CFPC is the most corrupt thing in sports and the absolute worst way of determining who plays for a championship.

Who would have thought a small biased committee with no set criteria could be corrupt compared to a formula of 400 coaches/journalist and 1/3 average of a dozen computer rankings.

It's almost like the intentionally abandoned a relatively objective ranking for the most subjective thing possible.

 

[HFCS]

Yeah, but it isn't. It's the B1G and their golden child tOSU. So pass the popcorn. This is must see TV!

Any conference would bend over backwards to help their top team in this situation, if they didn't the leadership should all be fired.

The committee bends over backwards and changes its criteria every year to help only one specific conference.

 

[Gunnerclone]

Do you think if this situation was playing out in the Big 12 and it was OU or UT under the microscope, would our league offices be behaving the same way (trying to find ways to get them in)?

Yes, but we don’t operate under the guise of being this amazing, STUDENT/Academics first organization with more integrity than the Queen of England, as holy as Jesus Christ himself like the Big Ten does.

 

[jbhtexas]

Do you think if this situation was playing out in the Big 12 and it was OU or UT under the microscope, would our league offices be behaving the same way (trying to find ways to get them in)?

The situation isn't playing out in the Big-12, SEC, or ACC, because neither of those conferences had the overstretched ego to take it upon themselves to become the dictator of P5 college football and declare that there would be no season.

And there would likely be no reason for such a scenario to play out in the Big 12, because the media wouldn't be whoring a Big 12 team that had only played 5 or 6 six games as a playoff shoe-in.

 

[DeereClone]

Who would have thought a small biased committee with no set criteria could be corrupt compared to a formula of 400 coaches/journalist and 1/3 average of a dozen computer rankings.

It's almost like the intentionally abandoned a relatively objective ranking for the most subjective thing possible.

Bingo. Go to 8, have 5 auto-bids, then 3 at larges determined by the highest ranked non-auto bid teams in the BCS ranking system.

I think the sports media likes it this way - it’s more dramatic, gives them something to talk about, and they can cover for the corrupt committee to get their favorite brands into the playoff for the best TV ratings. It’s trash.

 

[MeanDean]

Any conference would bend over backwards to help their top team in this situation, if they didn't the leadership should all be fired.

The committee bends over backwards and changes its criteria every year to help only one specific conference.

But the conference MADE the rules. And all 14 AD's agreed to them. To change them because they don't like how it played out is the height of hypocrisy.

Making dumb decisions about canceling the season. Then changing them, then forcing the changes through in haste resulting in this cluster - is why the leadership should all be fired.

 

[HFCS]

Bingo. Go to 8, have 5 auto-bids, then 3 at larges determined by the highest ranked non-auto bid teams in the BCS ranking system.

I think the sports media likes it this way - it’s more dramatic, gives them something to talk about, and they can cover for the corrupt committee to get their favorite brands into the playoff for the best TV ratings. It’s trash.

I always add to this that we've had teams ranked 5th that dominate their bowl and have a claim to some sort of NC. That's never true of a 9th ranked team heading into bowls.

8 is perfect in that no real NC contender is ever ranked 9th. Look at #9 Iowa State...don't lose to Louisiana! Yet 8 still means you have to be very good to be in among 130+ teams. 16 means Bama can sleep walk into a 12-16 spot. 8 means Bama misses the playoff if they slip a little some year.

There was a way to do this that was SUPER fair to everybody. They even had 4 BCS bowls for the 4 first round games. It was too perfect. They could still do it with the NY6 bowls and rotate which are national semis.

There has always been a lot of money to be made in a real fair playoff. The battle is always that the people making money want it to stay exactly like it is and control it, not that a truly fair 8 team playoff wouldn't be popular and profitable.