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Week 15 CCG Games Discussion Thread

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Buckeneye said:
Conference championship games mean a lot in terms of revenue. But to those teams who stand to gain nothing from the win in terms of playoff seeding and would only risk player injury?

I see no reason why those teams would bother playing their starters.
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I’d consider using tie breakers to name a regular season champ and then make these CCG games play-in games.

In reality that won’t happen, they will keep adding games right up to the point where they don’t make enough money to justify adding any more.

They couldn’t care less about players or “fair” or any of the stuff we think of as fans.
 
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shetuck said:
how long before conferences decide there’s no benefit to having championship games?
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I’m waiting to see the SEC schedule where they have Texas, Bama, UGA, Tennessee, aTm, Ole Miss, Oklahoma, and LSU not play any of each other in the hope of having 7 teams end up 10-2 so they can all make the CFP.

I know, I shouldn‘t give Greg Sankey any ideas.
 
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Contrast in coaching in the first half of ASU-ISU. The Sun Devils throw the bomb on 4th and 1 on their own 34-yard line, and get a first and goal. The Cyclones had 3 timeouts when ASU later got a first and goal with 40-some seconds left and 2 timeouts of their own, so they could do whatever they wanted. I’m telling Matt Campbell to call timeouts so they can try to score before halftime after ASU gets their TD to put them up 14. He lets the clock run, ASU gets their TD with 28 seconds left, and Iowa State ends up just short of midfield with 2 seconds and both timeouts still available. He doesn’t even call one to try a Hail Mary. They would have had a shot at a FG and might have slowed the momentum some, but he just went to halftime with 2 timeouts and his tail between his legs.

A few years ago Campbell was a hot commodity, but no thanks.

Dillingham is young and aggressive but inexperienced and an idiot at times. Watch the last 2 minutes of the ASU-BYU game to see his QB dropping from the BYU 10-yard line to near midfield in an attempt to kill a few extra seconds, BYU ended up with a Hail Mary with 1 second left that landed on the 3-yard line.
 
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Telekinesis said:
Fucking embarrassing.

No, not the way Texas is opening this game.

Missing yet another Big Ten Championship.
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You know I don’t even care if I have to be honest. Part of me is glad to have an extra week off guaranteed.

Now losing to TCUN sucks but let’s just say we lost to USC early in the year along with Oregon. Then beat TCUN but still missed the big ten championship.

I really wouldn’t care then to be honest. The thing that sucks is we lost to TCUN not that we aren’t playing today IMO.
 
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Captain Buckeye said:
You know I don’t even care if I have to be honest. Part of me is glad to have an extra week off guaranteed.

Now losing to TCUN sucks but let’s just say we lost to USC early in the year along with Oregon. Then beat TCUN but still missed the big ten championship.

I really wouldn’t care then to be honest. The thing that sucks is we lost to TCUN not that we aren’t playing today IMO.
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Let me rephrase:

Yet another missed Big Ten Championship directly due to them shutting the door.

Either way, it’s a nightmare. Especially this year.
 
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