Big 10 unded.

Just thinking here, if I'm the CFP committee, do I rank a team in the top 4 that might shut its football program down unpredictably?

Ohio State #Top5
 
smokey_wasp said:


Early November? They get...maybe 6 games in and think they can get in the playoff?
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lol at the P12 thinking they had a chance to get a team into the playoff with a full season. Oregon could rape/pillage their way to 7-0 and still not crack the Top 6.
 
They have a better chance of having a highly ranked team in a 7 game season versus a full season. Over the course of a full season their true colors would show. I'm sure they can get a team to 7-0..... but surely the CFP won't fall for that trap.

Clemmons is in. The SEC winner is in. So basically it's 3 conferences competing for 2 spots. At this point there is literally no reason for me not to believe it will be tOSU and OU representing the Big 10/12... Same as it ever was...

The interesting question will be whether a 7-0 PAC-12 team would get in over an 11-1 Oklahoma. No one in the Slow10 can beat tOSU, so not going to get into that.
 
JoeCakeEater said:
They have a better chance of having a highly ranked team in a 7 game season versus a full season. Over the course of a full season their true colors would show. I'm sure they can get a team to 7-0..... but surely the CFP won't fall for that trap.

Clemmons is in. The SEC winner is in. So basically it's 3 conferences competing for 2 spots. At this point there is literally no reason for me not to believe it will be tOSU and OU representing the Big 10/12... Same as it ever was...

The interesting question will be whether a 7-0 PAC-12 team would get in over an 11-1 Oklahoma. No one in the Slow10 can beat tOSU, so not going to get into that.
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A 7-0 USCw might unseat an 11-1 OU, very small chance, just because the name brand is big. They'd have to be Boise-ing everyone they play though, including the championship game. They probably can't afford any 10PM kicks either. OU's 1 would need to be to like Iowa State or something, as well, probably late in the season. Haven't checked their schedule either.

The CFP is going to be a real mess lol.
 
An academic weighs in on these Neanderthals: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...otball-decision-marks-darkest-day/5793238002/

That’s the Big Ten for you, concerned about science, medicine and safety. Let the football factories of the SEC, Big 12 and ACC (Clemson’s playground) continue playing; the Big Ten was doing the right thing looking out for its student-athletes, treating them almost no differently than the student body at large, and that was all that mattered.
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I can’t help but wonder if all this ends up hurting the ACC. We would finish a long time before these late add ones and probably be pretty cold by the playoffs. Plus late charging teams will get big vote extras over our guys who played during the normal season.
 
cyclejacket said:
An academic weighs in on these Neanderthals: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...otball-decision-marks-darkest-day/5793238002/
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She teaches at Northwestern but her primary gig is sports journalism. How can someone that thoroughly immersed in college athletics not understand the basic issues:
Christine Brennan said:
No matter how (Mike Warren, Big 10 Commissioner) explains it, it’s clear that he and the league flip-flopped so Ohio State can try to win a national title and the league can still make lots of money off the backs of 18-to-22-year-olds in the middle of a pandemic.
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The "making lots of money off the backs of 18-to-22-year-olds" just means "take the market power of football players and use it to fund the women's volleyball team." If COVID shuts down the football season and radically contracts the income of the athletic dept, they're not going to fire the football coach. They're going to fire the second assistant volleyball coach, and one of the trainers, and an administrative assistant.
 
18in32 said:
She teaches at Northwestern but her primary gig is sports journalism. How can someone that thoroughly immersed in college athletics not understand the basic issues:

The "making lots of money off the backs of 18-to-22-year-olds" just means "take the market power of football players and use it to fund the women's volleyball team." If COVID shuts down the football season and radically contracts the income of the athletic dept, they're not going to fire the football coach. They're going to fire the second assistant volleyball coach, and one of the trainers, and an administrative assistant.
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Very little is as socialist as college athletic departments. You would think liberal idiots would love it. I'm starting to think they simply hate everything. I think liberals are genuinely unhappy people.
 
GTCrew said:
Very little is as socialist as college athletic departments. You would think liberal idiots would love it. I'm starting to think they simply hate everything. I think liberals are genuinely unhappy people.
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Wtf are you babbling about?
 
Wouldn't this be an opportunity to reorganize the playoffs to an 8 team format?
 
cyclejacket said:
An academic weighs in on these Neanderthals: https://www.usatoday.com/story/spor...otball-decision-marks-darkest-day/5793238002/
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Now she's talking to CNN about the Big 10. Below are her comments to John King on CNN. I think she is worried it's helping Trump more than anything. What major problems elsewhere have cropped up? How many deaths and hospitalizations have happened since sports opened up? How many major illnesses in athletes?

BRENNAN: I do. And the president sees the president’s thumb on this, John, as we know. There was an off-the-record briefing yesterday about this, so he’s taking a victory lap. Whether it means anything in terms of votes that he desperately needs in Michigan, or Ohio, or Wisconsin, or Pennsylvania we’ll see. But again, there are adults in the room and they’re the presidents of the Big Ten schools. That’s the decision the Big Ten made, but to go for football as opposed to being correct and sitting back and watching some of the problems elsewhere and saying, “Hey, we made the right decision, we did not roll the dice.”
 
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