Losing Early, Now What Needs to Happen - 2010 Chaos Theory

[Tlangs]

Add to that Stanford winning over Ore St (5-6) vaults them from #8 to #5 in the coaches poll and now into the NC discussion if one of the top 2 lose? GMAFB!

Great Post. Greenies!

The Iowa/Minnesota debacle really killed Wisky and OSU in the rankings. The Iowa win was a big win for OSU and Wisky...then they go shat the bed leaving the voters with the idea that the big ten is terrible and OSU and Wisky didn't play anybody.

 

[cjmik_75]

The Iowa/Minnesota debacle really killed Wisky and OSU in the rankings. The Iowa win was a big win for OSU and Wisky...then they go shat the bed leaving the voters with the idea that the big ten is terrible and OSU and Wisky didn't play anybody.

Agreed. Iowa really fucked tOSU/Wisconsin with there late season meltdown. The problem I have is Stanford has played nobody too and the Pac10 is worse than the Big10 but, they are leap frogging people and could be in the MNC discussion if shit goes chaotic this weekend. It's BULLSHIT.

Stanford schedule last 6 games faced ONE school with a record above .500:
vs Wash St (2-9)
@ Wash (5-6)
vs Ariz (7-4)
@ Az St (5-6)
@ Cal (5-7)
vs Or St (5-6)

That's a combined 29-38 (.433)



Wisconsin schedule last 6 games faced FOUR schools with a record above .500:
vs tOSU (11-1)
@ Iowa (7-5)
@ Purdue (4-8)
vs IU (5-7)
@ UM (7-5)
vs NW (7-5)

Combined records 42-31 (.575)


tOSU schedule last 6 games faced FOUR schools with a record above .500:
@ Wisc (11-1)
vs Purdue (4-8)
@ Minne (3-9)
vs PSU (7-5)
@ Iowa (7-5)
vs UM (7-5)

Combined records 40-33 (.548)


The Pac10 right now has 3 bowl eligible teams (4 w/USC @7-5 but, well...yeah) So how is it that voters think Stanford is soooooo much better than Wisc/tOSU? It's not like Wiscy hasn't been running up the score and tOSU has won it's last four games by a combined score 196-48.

I'd take the Buckeyes against any team in the country. There's really not one dominate team right now but it seems Stanford is one team that has received alot of voter love for playing a pretty soft schedule.

 

[Tlangs]

Agreed. Iowa really fucked tOSU/Wisconsin with there late season meltdown. The problem I have is Stanford has played nobody too and the Pac10 is worse than the Big10 but, they are leap frogging people and could be in the MNC discussion if shit goes chaotic this weekend. It's BULLSHIT.

Stanford schedule last 6 games faced ONE school with a record above .500:
vs Wash St (2-9)
@ Wash (5-6)
vs Ariz (7-4)
@ Az St (5-6)
@ Cal (5-7)
vs Or St (5-6)

That's a combined 29-38 (.433)



Wisconsin schedule last 6 games faced FOUR schools with a record above .500:
vs tOSU (11-1)
@ Iowa (7-5)
@ Purdue (4-8)
vs IU (5-7)
@ UM (7-5)
vs NW (7-5)

Combined records 42-31 (.575)


tOSU schedule last 6 games faced FOUR schools with a record above .500:
@ Wisc (11-1)
vs Purdue (4-8)
@ Minne (3-9)
vs PSU (7-5)
@ Iowa (7-5)
vs UM (7-5)

Combined records 40-33 (.548)


The Pac10 right now has 3 bowl eligible teams (4 w/USC @7-5 but, well...yeah) So how is it that voters think Stanford is soooooo much better than Wisc/tOSU? It's not like Wiscy hasn't been running up the score and tOSU has won it's last four games by a combined score 196-48.

I'd take the Buckeyes against any team in the country. There's really not one dominate team right now but it seems Stanford is one team that has received alot of voter love for playing a pretty soft schedule.

Agreed on all counts. A 1 loss Big Ten team should be the highest ranked 1 loss team this year (assuming there are no SEC 1 loss teams).

 

[Mike80]

We were discussing the upcoming championship games tonight at work and we came to the conclusion that an Oregon loss would throw the system for a loop.

However I'm going for both Oregon and Auburn losing, thereby creating total chaos when Stanford and Wisconsin both jump TCU thereby getting the BCS sued by someone. it would be awesome.

 

[BB73]

We were discussing the upcoming championship games tonight at work and we came to the conclusion that an Oregon loss would throw the system for a loop.

However I'm going for both Oregon and Auburn losing, thereby creating total chaos when Stanford and Wisconsin both jump TCU thereby getting the BCS sued by someone. it would be awesome.

This morning Craig James said that if Oregon and Auburn both lost, he'd have Auburn and Stanford in the BCS Title Game.

Neither team would have received the AQ bid from its conference.

But he's a frickin' idiot. Wiscy should get one of the two spots if they both lose.

 

[cbrian815]

No love for msu....seriously they have the best win of anyone in the conference. They actually beat wisky and lost to Iowa....although it wasnt that close an iowa team that should of beat wisky and only lost to us after a great late drive to take them down. Seriously why do the voters and fans not give any love to msu.

After I have had some time to really think about this they have every right to be ahead of wisky and tosu.....did everyone forget they beat wisky. Go Bucks

 

[BB73]

No love for msu....seriously they have the best win of anyone in the conference. They actually beat wisky and lost to Iowa....although it wasnt that close an iowa team that should of beat wisky and only lost to us after a great late drive to take them down. Seriously why do the voters and fans not give any love to msu.

After I have had some time to really think about this they have every right to be ahead of wisky and tosu.....did everyone forget they beat wisky. Go Bucks

Losing 37-6 is a killer with the human voters. If the conference tie-breaker worked differently, they could get the AQ bid based on head-to-head percentage among the 3 teams that are tied (1-0, vs 1-1 and 0-1). I feel for Sparty, but I believe that Wiscy and tOSU have had better seasons.

Their complaint should be with the max-2-per-conference rule, which prevents them from going while taking a crap team from the Big East.

 

[MaxBuck]

There is now officially no chaos that is sufficiently chaotic to result in a Buckeye national championship this season.

R. I. P. :(