awesome.... glad to see them win, only helps Iowa’s SOS
Clones win a tight one
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Would this be bragging if I told you all I made a bet that I took ISU to win outright?
Cause I did.
Cause I did.
Sweet! And strength of schedule is good for what exactly?
Could be the difference between making and not making the CFP.
So Iowa runs the table beating OSU in the BTCG, it’s going to come down to SOS? More so, down to ISU beating Ok St? Highly, highly unlikely, but I’ll have my fingers crossed.
Wisconsin has a tough road ahead, if Iowa can beat Penn State and win out everything is still there. Ohio State needs to stay undefeated, beat a top 3 Buckeye team to win the conference, we all know Iowa owns their psyche
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No cancellation in week one, and ISU is sizing up Alabama about now.
The chances of getting in the playoff for Iowa is nil even with winning out. The SOS kills the hawks chances even with a win over OSU in BTTG.
If a team from the B10 West wins the B10 title with one loss, the perception would be the B10 is down strengthwise and the committee would look in another direction for a playoff team. In recent years, it would take an undefeated team from the West to have any shot to be in the playoff.Wisconsin has a tough road ahead, if Iowa can beat Penn State and win out everything is still there. Ohio State needs to stay undefeated, beat a top 3 Buckeye team to win the conference, we all know Iowa owns their psyche
I don’t think you understand the definition of “Nil”.
If Iowa wins out there’s at least a 5% chance at the playoff
The math is tricky. Wisconsin needing to lose twice is the biggest problem.
This doesn’t feel like a year the BIG could get left out. It’s not like they’re gonna let 3 SEC teams in
Wow guys.
Don’t lose any sleep on this. We have at least two losses ahead and probably three.
Indy, nw and mary will be at least 1. Psu is 1. Purdue and nebby is about a 40% chance of 1.
My issue was with the poor statistical analysis. I get annoyed with absolutes.
I agree with you. Over/under I would set is 1.5 more losses and I would take the under but wouldn’t feel great about it
Ohio State lost at home to a down Va Tech team in game 1 a few years back, and they got into the playoff. I believe they might have won it that year. If the conference is strong and the loss is very early in the season, a one loss team can get in. The B10 West does not qualify as strong.
they could have played another 40 quarters and ISU wouldn't have scored a td.
Didn't need another 40 quarters as we would have scored the TD on the 1st possession.
Oh sure they would. How it works is that ISU would beat Iowa on any Saturday... except for the one they actually play on. It's been this way for four years now, freakish.
I'm pulling for ISU every week. Didn't watch their game, sounds like Purdy played well. I did watch OU v. Texas and the defense played in that game was embarrassing.
I would love to find out what it meant for a 1-loss Iowa team to not make the playoff. It would mean that Iowa won the rest of its games.
As far as whether a 1-loss West team can get in, the answer is mostly on brand names and not conference division. Ohio State, Michigan or Penn State can all get to the playoff with a loss due to their names. Period. The same in the Big 12 if a 1-loss Oklahoma or 1-loss Texas is in that circumstance. Sooners and Longhorns would be considered, any other 1-loss team in the Big 12, no.
If either Wisconsin or Iowa won out, beat OSU in the title game, they would need all the contenders from the SEC who didn't win that league to have 2+ losses, and some other things to happen as well.
I'm hopeful we get to a day when the playoffs are 16 or 24 teams, but that is a different subject.
Lol, we’re talking football over here. This really isn’t a topic for a Clown fan to show his stupidity.
There’s plenty of other topics for that.
It is a stupidity that every fan and football expert outside of Iowa City is certain of. See even when the hawks go 12-0 then lose a very tight CCG to MSU, the West was exposed. Both CCG participants were destroyed in their bowl games. Ohio State is the only B10 team that gets the benefit of the doubt.
Well, the B10 needs Ohio State to step up because the conference is considered in the toilet when they don't get to the playoff. MSU proved that when the committee made the mistake of including them a few years back. That was an embarrassment that was validated by Iowa's performance in the farmers only .com bowl.
We’re not talking about a few years back, we’re talking this year. If Iowa ran the table, beating OSU in conf final they are in over any Big XII team and that’s as simple as that. SOS would matter as much as you do, very little.
You guys miss your yearly ISU bye don’t you? Here we can’t get them off our schedule.
This would be false if WVU would go undefeated and possibly false if WVU has 1 loss.
Really? tOSU lost 31-0 Clemson in 16/17 play off game so they don’t always represent.
MSU and Iowa lost because they could barely field teams in their play off and Rose bowl game due to the blood bath that was the B1G Championship game. I don’t expect you to know anything about that since the clowns have never and will never put themselves in a position to play in a CCG or a high end bowl game.
Congrats on finally winning your 4th bowl game last year at the Memphis Midas bowl or whatever it was and finally beating Ricky Stanzi’s three bowl wins. Only took clowns 100 plus years, Ricky four years. So Proud!
That is true, but I already gave WVU a loss for next Saturday. Clones are rolling.
Well then two losses when they Clones snag them again in the Big 12 title game! LOL!!!!!!!
Thank god for ISU and our SOS. It’ll be off the charts by then. Automatic CFP.
If ISU ever went undefeated, the playoff committee would still probably pick a 2 loss team over them for the playoffs.
