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2020 B1G Season - Starts Oct. 23/24

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buckeyemania11 said:
One more cancellation for Bucky and theres a solid chance that the Purdue/Northwestern game 11/14 could decide that division :rofl:whod a thought it?
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The Nebraska at NW’ern game this week could be important in the west. There’s a possibility that Nebraska is improved this year, their only game has been the loss in the ‘Shoe.
 
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The B1G clarified that if Wiscy goes 5-1 and NW’ern goes 7-1 with that loss to Wiscy, Wiscy goes to the B1G based on head-to-head.

But if Nebraska goes 5-2, and NW’ern goes 7-1 with a loss to Nebraska, I think NW’ern gets the trip to Indy. Because Nebraska wiil have played tOSU and Penn State, and NW’ern’s crossovers are Maryland and Sparty.
 
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OHSportsFan said:
Backup/confirmation test wasn’t planned before??? This would have allowed Hilliard to play last week.



I have a feeling they may need to make a couple more changes to make it through the rest of the season.
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Someone really needs to get fired for all of this sheer incompetence
 
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buckeyemania11 said:
Someone really needs to get fired for all of this sheer incompetence
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The worst part is that, according to what Ryan Day said on his radio show today, Ohio State already had the capability and in fact had confirmed that Hilliard’s first test was a false positive before kick-off on Saturday, but they couldn’t let him play because of the league rule. Or is the worst part that the league rule was in place because not everyone in the league has the capability?
 
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kujirakira said:
I concur, she's a snake... wait I might be in the wrong forum.
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OHSportsFan said:
Backup/confirmation test wasn’t planned before??? This would have allowed Hilliard to play last week.



I have a feeling they may need to make a couple more changes to make it through the rest of the season.
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That policy change comes after Hilliard was unable to play in Ohio State's game at Penn State last Saturday after his rapid-response test that morning came back positive, even though he later took a PCR test that came back negative, which allowed him to be on the sidelines and travel back with the Buckeyes.

Ryan Day said Thursday that was because some schools in the Big Ten did not have the ability to get PCR test results before games, which could have potentially provided a competitive advantage for the schools that did.

“The way that it was explained to me was that not every school has the opportunity to get that PCR in that short of a time, and so they wanted to make sure it was equal across the board,” Day said. “That’s something that everybody had to agree upon in order to get the season started.”

Now, though, it appears the infrastructure is in place for all schools to be able to get PCR results on game days, which will keep players from being sidelined by false positives from the less accurate antigen tests.

Hilliard, who has yet to play this season after he was unavailable due to injury for the season opener against Nebraska but would have been able to play at Penn State, reacted to the news on Twitter:

 
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HOW HAVE THE ALREADY-CANCELED GAMES CHANGED THE BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP GAME RACE?

If Ohio State gets to play the rest of its regular season games and wins all of them, the canceled game against Maryland won’t change anything. If the Buckeyes go 7-0 in the regular season, they’ll win the Big Ten East.

If Indiana defeats Ohio State next week, the Buckeyes will need the Hoosiers to lose two games to have a chance to play in the Big Ten Championship Game, but that was already the case before the Maryland game was canceled. Maryland could benefit from avoiding Ohio State in a scenario where both teams finish 6-1 and tie for the Big Ten East title, but the Buckeyes can still prevent any chance of that happening by winning out.

The canceled game between Wisconsin and Purdue creates the possibility that two teams could finish undefeated in the Big Ten West and that one of them could be left out of the Big Ten Championship Game even if it gets to play and wins the rest of its regular season games, but the odds are against that happening.

Northwestern would have the upper hand if those three teams were to finish in a three-way tie, and it would have a clear path to the Big Ten Championship Game if it beats both Purdue and Wisconsin. But it also still has to play both of those teams, and potentially still has to beat both of them to win the West, whereas the Badgers and Boilermakers don’t have to play each other, removing the certainty that at least one of them will lose to someone else.

If one team in each division finishes undefeated, or at least with one less loss than every other team in its division, that would make it much simpler to know which two teams will vie for this year’s conference title in Indianapolis. If tiebreakers end up coming into play, however, hopefully the above answers will provide some clarity on how the championship game participants will be decided.

Just sayin': If you have a friend in Ann Arbor you should email them this picture. I'm sure that they have never seen one before:

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