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knapplc;2150355; said:
Honestly? I'd watch at least two of those games, maybe all three, even if Nebraska wasn't in the B1G in 06 setting up the divisions and CCG. The Game is just good entertainment.

This is a wost-case scenario for repetition of play, but if it's good football, why not?

The biggest difference between this scenario and the LSU/'Bammer rerun last year was, neither team earned their right to be in the Championship game via playoff. It's different if they make it through other qualifiers.
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For a majority of the history of the B1G, it would have been good football to make tOSU and TSUN play ten straight against each other for the title.
 
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jwinslow;2150352; said:
You want a hypothetical? Set aside the rivalry logic of Mike Hart & Troy Smith's involvement for a second.

2006:

Nov 18 - UM loses @ OSU in Cbus
Nov 25 - UM beats... OSU in Indy

Semis.. - UM faces OSU or USC

OSU would either face UM for a 3rd straight time or potentially meet them in the finals (3 times in 4 games)
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knapplc;2150355; said:
Honestly? I'd watch at least two of those games, maybe all three, even if Nebraska wasn't in the B1G in 06 setting up the divisions and CCG. The Game is just good entertainment.

This is a wost-case scenario for repetition of play, but if it's good football, why not?

The biggest difference between this scenario and the LSU/'Bammer rerun last year was, neither team earned their right to be in the Championship game via playoff. It's different if they make it through other qualifiers.
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To me, the issue there isn't how angry I'd be in January to be forced to watch a match-up I'd already seen. It's how much less interesting the first game would be in November. Of course I'd watch it, but I'd watch it largely the same way I watch the OSU spring game. The actual '06 OSU/UM game was huge, in part, because both sides knew it was for all the marbles - the only time they play each other in a year, winner goes to the NC game, loser does not. In Jwins's hypo, that November game basically becomes a scrimmage. Sure, you want to win for pride, but beyond that, if you've already got your division locked up, the actual outcome of the game doesn't matter a whole lot. Maybe in jwins's scenario, the third game, the playoff game, when it really counts, will be able to capture all that lost intensity from the first one, when it doesn't count. Hopefully.
 
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zincfinger;2150382; said:
To me, the issue there isn't how angry I'd be in January to be forced to watch a match-up I'd already seen. It's how much less interesting the first game would be in November. Of course I'd watch it, but I'd watch it largely the same way I watch the OSU spring game. The actual '06 OSU/UM game was huge, in part, because both sides knew it was for all the marbles. In Jwins's hypo, that November game basically becomes a scrimmage. Sure, you want to win for pride, but beyond that, if you've already got your division locked up, the actual outcome of the game doesn't matter a whole lot. It's basically a really good scrimmage. Maybe in jwins's scenario, the third game, the playoff game, when it really counts, will be able to capture all that lost intensity from the first one, when it doesn't count. Hopefully.
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Not at a neutral site.
 
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zincfinger;2150382; said:
To me, the issue there isn't how angry I'd be in January to be forced to watch a match-up I'd already seen. It's how much less interesting the first game would be in November. Of course I'd watch it, but I'd watch it largely the same way I watch the OSU spring game. The actual '06 OSU/UM game was huge, in part, because both sides knew it was for all the marbles - the only time they play each other in a year, winner goes to the NC game, loser does not. In Jwins's hypo, that November game basically becomes a scrimmage. Sure, you want to win for pride, but beyond that, if you've already got your division locked up, the actual outcome of the game doesn't matter a whole lot. Maybe in jwins's scenario, the third game, the playoff game, when it really counts, will be able to capture all that lost intensity from the first one, when it doesn't count. Hopefully.
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It's Nebraska's job to make The Game more for pride than for Michigan to win the Legends. We'll have to do a better job of holding up our end of things. 2011 was an embarrassment.
 
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knapplc;2150391; said:
It's Nebraska's job to make The Game more for pride than for Michigan to win the Legends. We'll have to do a better job of holding up our end of things. 2011 was an embarrassment.
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No worries it's Wednesday May 2nd and scUM still sucks. No need to include a year...it's an annual thing.
 
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i HATE this proposed plan. the corruption and cronyism is ridiculous. a playoff should have been put in place TWENTY YEARS AGO. and NOW we're getting a bullshit version of it, designed to milk as much money as possible out of this golden udder, and NOT to determine an actual on-field champion.

the NCAA needs to step in, tell the BCS to go fuck itself, take over, and implement a tournament of its own.

[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Death-BCS-Definitive-Against-Championship/dp/1592405703/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top"]Death to the BCS.[/ame] READ IT.
 
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Probably the best compromise I have seen regarding Top 4 vs All Conference Champs idea...


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/05/02/bcs.jim.delany.ap/index.html?sct=cf_t2_a3

CHICAGO (AP) -- Big Ten Commissioner Jim Delany says a model being considered for a four-team college football playoff would give preference to conference champions ranked in the top-six nationally.
CBSSports.com reports that Delany spoke to a group of reporters during a meeting at the Big Ten headquarters in Chicago.


Read more: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/05/02/bcs.jim.delany.ap/index.html#ixzz1toJH8BI9
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Piney;2150706; said:
Probably the best compromise I have seen regarding Top 4 vs All Conference Champs idea...


http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2012/football/ncaa/05/02/bcs.jim.delany.ap/index.html?sct=cf_t2_a3
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I'd be OK with that. The "only conference champs" scenario looks bad with last year's example including #10 Wiscy.

It would be hilarious to see #2 ND shut out of a playoff. But I think they'll add a compromise for Independents that are in the top-3 or top-4, in order to get Swarbrick/ND on board. But that should be for Independents only, not for conference runner-ups. All of the Presidents should vote for that, and say to hell with the SEC/ESPN agenda of trying to get a 2nd SEC team included each year.

But the possibility of a split title exists. If a #2 conference runner-up is not in the playoff and wins their bowl game, and the #6 team wins the playoff, the AP could vote the conference runner-up as #1.
 
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