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[THE_WIZARD_]

Iowa is so bad that they are UNL's best chance for a remaining win.

[lineygoblue]

So, its setting up for Purdue v Minnesota for the West representative in the CCG?

If Purdue beats the Goopers .. they have the HTH with Ioway, .. so off to Indy they go.

Yes?

[THE_WIZARD_]

Could happen.

[froot loops]

Purdue has to play in Columbus, too soon to be worrying tiebreakers.

[JRB]

Minnesota already beat Purdue two weeks ago.

[iam416]

Bezerklie is finally correct.

[lineygoblue]

So Iowa still has a chance ...

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[iam416]

Everyone in the entire fucking mediocre division has a chance. Well, except for Nebraska and Illinois. It'll be any one of 5 teams vs. the Sparty-M winner in Indy.

[Cody_Russell]

Purdue’s remaining schedule is way too difficult to win the B10 West. At the same time, nobody is more likely to beat Ohio State than Purdue if you look at recent history.

Oh well. I’m content with Purdue playing in the prestigious Duke’s Mayo Bowl. That’s truly the best case scenario if not in the Playoff.

[THE_WIZARD_]

It's probably down to Iowa and Row The Boat. In other words...OSU is B1G Champs.

[Da Geezer]

Iowa may be the luckiest team in college football. They won two competitive games against grossly overrated foes (# 17 Indiana and # 9 Iowa State) to start the season, and the rest of their schedule had only PSU as a tough game. PSU was kicking the crap out of them until Clifford was injured. Plus, they only had to play one of the "big 4" in the East. The pollsters looked at that schedule and knew that Iowa could easily go undefeated.

Case in point about being lucky: The "touchback" on third and goal when the Purdue player's hand was down and he was reaching for the pylon. If the hand was down before he touched the pylon, then the ball was at the one-foot line and it was fourth down. If he touched the pylon before the hand was down, then it is a touchdown. If the hand being down doesn't count as down, then it is a touchdown. Instead, it is called a fumble into the endzone and Iowa gets the ball on their 20 without Purdue getting a chance to even kick a field goal. That was flat-out lucky.

In any case, if you want to pick the winner of the West in any given year, look at the schedule and see which team has the fewest games against the big four. This works basically every year. The East is so much better than the West that the CCG is usually a farce. Give me a game between the two highest-rated teams in the B10 for the conference championship. Realignment would be better, but that will never happen. IMO, move UM and MSU to the West and Purdue and NW to the East.

[Da Geezer]

Everyone in the entire fucking mediocre division has a chance. Well, except for Nebraska and Illinois. It'll be any one of 5 teams vs. the Sparty-M winner in Indy.

C'mon man! Stop the nonsense.

[lineygoblue]

It's probably down to Iowa and Row The Boat. In other words...OSU is B1G Champs.

OSU is Big Ten Champs until someone beats them. That's not happening this year either.

I like Geezer's idea to switch up the divisions. I know this statement will be taken wrongly, but I agree that M and MSU should be switched to the West, and maybe NW and Purdue to the East. It would mess up the geographics a bit, but there'd be more competition in the West with MSU and M there.

Only problem is, I think the loudest opponent to that would be OSU, because only one of two things could happen. First, if they wanted Michigan as a "protected" opponent, there would be a possibility they'd play each other twice in two weeks at the end of the season. Secondly, if M v OSU is not protected, then M would drop off OSU's schedule on a rotational basis, and OSU lives and breathes by how they perform against Michigan. Take Michigan off their program, and I think you'd see season ticket sales drop in Columbus. For some OSU folk, that's the only game on the schedule that matters.

Its a decent idea that will never happen. There are too many people in Ann Arbor that want that annual game as well. Big money/big name people.

[THE_WIZARD_]

STFU

[Obi-Jon]

Liney, "osu" is an improper noun, never capitalized even as the first word in a sentence. It is also one of the few English language abbreviations categorized as a twisted obscenity, origins thought to have sprung from the 8th circle of Hell.

You should know that or did you go to a public school?