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At the press conference, Warren said, “I wouldn’t say this is a reaction to Texas and Oklahoma moving to the SEC.”

The follow up should have been, “Then why does this alliance exclude the SEC?”

When people, be they conference commissioners or politicians, are being intentionally vague, you need to ask the question that everyone already knows the answer to, especially when the answer is the thing that they are trying very hard to not say.

I would really like to have heard the answer to that question
 
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They talked all around their real reaction to the SEC land grab and the SEC commish without indicating how pissed they were. I think they are determined not to allow a second Munich, but notice how often money was mentioned.
 
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Bowl season has seen its first casualty this fall after organizers decided to axe this season's Redbox Bowl, Brett McMurphy of The Action Network reported on Wednesday. That trims the postseason slate to 41 bowl games, not including the national championship finale, and likely means two fewer Group of Five teams will play in a bowl game, McMurphy reports.

The reason? The Redbox Bowl featured the Pac-12’s sixth selection and Big Ten’s seventh selection and now frees up two spots from the Power Five that would be attractive options in other games. McMurphy says he was told through a source it may create a "domino effect" and the Big Ten and Pac-12 are figuring out how to keep their conference "whole" and not miss out on bowl bids.

The Redbox Bowl was reportedly unable to find a television partner for this year's game. The Redbox Bowl was the first of several games canceled last season amid the nationwide pandemic.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
How does the East tiebreaker work. If we beat sparty and lose to tsun, do we get knocked out due to our ooc loss and then it kicks to head to head between Sparty and tsun?
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https://bigten.org/news/2011/8/10/Big_Ten_Conference_Football_Divisional_Tiebreaker.aspx

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If I understand correctly,
1. They'd all be tied at 1-1.
2. They'd all be tied at 5-1.
3. Seems pointless, but they'd all be tied at 4-0.
4. I don't know who the cross-divisional opponents for the other two teams are, so I don't know how this would play out.
5. Same - this might be where we get boned. Nebraska, Purdue, and Minnesota might not be as good as the teams the other two have played.
6. Blah blah blah.
7. We get boned here.
8. They should make an arm-wrestling match between coaches, or something. Random draw? Lame.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
How does the East tiebreaker work. If we beat sparty and lose to tsun, do we get knocked out due to our ooc loss and then it kicks to head to head between Sparty and tsun?
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Short answer, no. It’s rather a clusterfuck, but tOSU should get it since it’s all based on conference games only until point #7.

B1G See Zurp’s post right above for the detailed rules copied into this thread.

Going through the 8-step process until a CCG participant is identified, boils down to this in a 3-way tie.

If tOSU, Sparty, and TTUN all have only 1 conference loss (which only occurs with the unthinkable in The Game):

tOSU would have crossover wins against Nebraska, Purdue, and Minny.
Sparty would have crossover wins against Nebraska, Purdue, and Northwestern.
TTUN would have crossover wins against Nebraska, Wiscy, and Northwestern.

Points 1 through 3 are all about the East division, and it’s a wash in each point.

Point 4 says compare records based on winning percentage against common cross-divisional opponents. Although neither Minny nor Wiscy is a ‘common opponent’, and Sparty would be 3-0 vs. 2-0 for tOSU and TTUN, it says ‘based on winning percentage’, so each team is 100% and it should keep going to point 5.

Point 5 says compare the conference winning percentages among each team’s cross-divisional opponents. Each team has Nebraska, so if the combined record of Minny and Purdue (currently 7-3) has the best overall record in conference games, tOSU gets the nod. If it’s Wiscy and NW’ern (currently 4-6) TTUN would get it, and Sparty if it’s Purdue and NW’ern (currently 4-6). So unless NW’ern gets very hot in November, the Buckeyes are in great shape regarding the 3-way tiebreaker among teams with 1 conference loss. But it won’t hurt to pull for Purdue over NW’ern on Nov. 20th, which would eliminate any chance of the Buckeyes losing this tiebreaker.

Points 6 through 8 won’t matter as long as the combined conference record of Minny and Purdue stays ahead of the NW’ern-Purdue and NW’ern-Wiscy combined conference records. I’ve taken Nebraska out of the equation since each team will have played them.
 
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