KidSilverhair
Well-Known Member
BREAKING: Iowa to join New Big 12 for 2023 season, details tonight on the Never Gonna Happen Nightly News with Chet Scoopington!
***Week 9 CFB Game Thread (10/30)***
- Thread starter BigJCy
- Start date
BREAKING: Iowa to join New Big 12 for 2023 season, details tonight on the Never Gonna Happen Nightly News with Chet Scoopington!
The point of this new league is that you can’t ignore a 13-0 or 12-1 team with a top 25 SOS. You can ignore the American teams now because they’re SOS is 75+
The Alliance is pushing for the new Big 12 to get an auto bid anyway.
They'll ignore it. That's the ******* point. If Cinncinati goes 9-3 in the new Big 12, no one is going to talk about them. Look at the rankings today. Penn State has lost 3 games and is still top 20. We've lost 3 games and we are out.
Why do we think everyone will be fair to the new Big 12? Do we have any sort of evidence of that? Of course not.
My prediction is we will get an auto bid for a few years before they drop us because the new Big 12 'isn't any good'. What incentive will the other 4 conference and ESPN have to keep the Big 12 relevant? None. And Amazon won't give a ****.
Think about this---if the PAC 12 lost USC and Oregon, we'd all be saying they don't deserve any sort of auto bid. And the PAC 12 adding Baylor and Kansas State, for example, wouldn't change that.
USC sucks and Oregon is meh at best. They're nowhere near comparable to say, Okie State and Baylor are this year. That's before talking about ANYONE else in the conference that would be left over. You're comparing apples to oranges and assuming that everything will be a death spiral of things going from bad to worse. I doubt we'll get as much respect as before, but I would still say an 11-1 Big 12 team will still be up there with 11-1 Pac-12s or 11-1 ACC teams.
Does Penn State have “better losses”? Both lost to Iowa. We lost at Baylor (top15) and they lost at Ohio State (top 10). They lost to a bad Illinois team and we lost at a mediocre WVU team. Looks like a push at best between ISU and Penn State. One difference is Penn State has lost 3 straight whereas we lost one.
For the record neither Penn State or ISU should be ranked.
Reading some of the coverage of the Iowa game, you'd think that they lost by 7 rather than 20. Howe is talking about how great the defense was. Even Hlas was lauding the defense. I assume the Register is the same way.
So the team leading the BIG West, Minnesota, isn’t ranked yet Iowa and Penn State (yes I know they are in the East) are? Interesting.
Gophers won at Purdue, that team that embarrassed Iowa in Kinnick just a couple of weeks ago. The loss to Bowling Green hurts for sure, but they played Ohio State as good as anyone before their star RB went down. They still kept it close after that too.
Gophers won at Purdue, that team that embarrassed Iowa in Kinnick just a couple of weeks ago. The loss to Bowling Green hurts for sure, but they played Ohio State as good as anyone before their star RB went down. They still kept it close after that too.
Not saying the CFP committee will do a good job but come Tuesday Night the AP Poll is pretty much worthless. Only Top 25 Ranking that will matter is the CFP one.
