They way I understood the byes is they went to the 4 conference champs, so BSU wouldn't even be eligible for a bye.
2024 Big 12 Championship Game Projections
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They way I understood the byes is they went to the 4 conference champs, so BSU wouldn't even be eligible for a bye.
4 highest ranked champs from any conference
Nervous that the earth's curvature will make it difficult to see the game...
I really hope K State doesn't lose prior to playing us.
A win over a 10-1 Kansas St team is a great win
Then beating 12-0 BYU in the championship game?
No reason to hope other teams lose. We control our own destiny and can beat anyone left on our schedule
A win over a 10-1 Kansas St team is a great win
Then beating 12-0 BYU in the championship game?
No reason to hope other teams lose. We control our own destiny and can beat anyone left on our schedule
You are not wrong, but some of us would like a backup plan.
It also doesn’t matter the record of those two if you are assuming we win the conference as we are then getting in as the conference champ (yes I know it’s the top 5 conference champs) but we will get in winning the Big 12.
I generally don't like to look ahead... however, I'm considering plans to travel to Dallas.
So I started looking at the possibilities of how things shake out using @mred's calcaulator. I also used ESPN's Matchup Predictor a little bit to adjust how some of these games might go.
I'm firmly in @ChrisMWilliams's camp of ISU first, B12 second. My goals for this team would be (in this order):
1) 10 wins
2) Make the championship game
3) Win the Championship Game -> bid to playoffs
4) Get an At Large bid
Therefore, what I want to happen is (in this order):
1) Us to win out
2) Others to lose in order for us to make the game
3) ... win the game of course
4) Others to win in order for the B12 to get 2 bids
From what I've learned from using the calculator, we should be cheering for teams like WVU, Baylor, UCF and Houston to win as many games as possible. That will be very important if we slip up and need some tie-breaker help.
A good example are Baylor's next 2 games. It would be easy to dismiss those games as "don't care" games, but in reality we want Baylor to beat Oklahoma St. and TCU to help our tie-breaker chances.
So I started looking at the possibilities of how things shake out using @mred's calcaulator. I also used ESPN's Matchup Predictor a little bit to adjust how some of these games might go.
I'm firmly in @ChrisMWilliams's camp of ISU first, B12 second. My goals for this team would be (in this order):
1) 10 wins
2) Make the championship game
3) Win the Championship Game -> bid to playoffs
4) Get an At Large bid
Therefore, what I want to happen is (in this order):
1) Us to win out
2) Others to lose in order for us to make the game
3) ... win the game of course
4) Others to win in order for the B12 to get 2 bids
From what I've learned from using the calculator, we should be cheering for teams like WVU, Baylor, UCF and Houston to win as many games as possible. That will be very important if we slip up and need some tie-breaker help.
A good example are Baylor's next 2 games. It would be easy to dismiss those games as "don't care" games, but in reality we want Baylor to beat Oklahoma St. and TCU to help our tie-breaker chances.
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In the case we don’t run the table we want the B12 teams we play to win as many games as possible (outside of ISU game) and B12 teams we don’t play to lose. Namely CU as they could play spoiler to us getting to the B12 championship.
Also, I won’t actively root for Iowa, but if they can get off their asses and win some games that would be helpful too
I could be wrong, but don't we really want KSU to lose another one prior to our game? Otherwise our playoffs start on 11/30.
Not exactly, we can lose against KState and still make it in, but obviously other stuff has to happen.
Right. We need Kansas State to lose another game. Frankly the same thing for Tech and Cinnci.
I read it like this. There's 3 front runners. ISU, BYU and KState. And there's 3 chasers: Colorado, Cincy and Texas Tech.
Obviously we play Cincy and Tech and hope for wins. KState appears to be our most difficult remaining game.
Colorado we don't play so we hope them to either lose, or for us to have the tie-breaker above them. Tie-breaker seems to hinge mostly on opponent record - that's why we hope teams like Houston and WVU (teams that Colorado doesn't play) can win some toss-up games.
I might throw South Carolina in there too. Nothing wrong with a school that is proud about their cocks.
