Read this- if Iowa happens to win out -

[Hawkeyeinsoutherncalifornia]

I didn’t know this but it’s rather comforting...if Iowa can win out and I know they can...


“The Badgers on the other hand, are a little different story. They still need to travel to Penn State in two weeks. If they lose this, Iowa is in good shape because Wisconsin will have more division losses than Iowa. If they somehow manage to win this game and win out as well, it will create a three-way tie at the top of the Big Ten West.

A three-way tie favors the Iowa football program immensely because the first tiebreaker is head-to-head matchups. In this scenario, Wisconsin beat Iowa, Iowa beat Northwestern, and Northwestern beat Wisconsin so you move on to the next tiebreaker which is overall conference record. This is where Iowa’s undefeated non-conference record helps them out.

If Wisconsin and Iowa win out, and Northwestern wins every game except for Iowa (important to note here that they will likely lose to Notre Dame next week in non-conference), Wisconsin will be 9-3, Northwestern will be 9-3, and Iowa will be 10-2 meaning Iowa wins the tiebreaker.

 

[ChiDoc]

False. Thankfully the conference fixed this to take strength of non-divisional opponents into consideration first.

https://bigten.org/news/2011/8/10/Big_Ten_Conference_Football_Divisional_Tiebreaker.aspx

Considering the overall conference record of non-divisional conference opponents (#5 in link) Iowa will almost certainly lose in a three way tie.

Non div opp played this year:
Wisconsin (MI psu Rutgers 8-7)
NW (MI MSU Rutgers 8-7)
Iowa(psu md Indiana 7-9)


MD still has to play OSU psu and MSU
Indiana still has to play MI and Purdue,
Psu still has MI and WI

Meanwhile MSU and MI are likely to go 3-1 at worst with 4-0 potential if they each handle OSU which should cancel out Indiana winning a game or two more than Rutgers leaving Iowa still behind in this metric. Extremely long odds of winning that three way tie considering MD schedule and Indiana being 1-5 already and likely to go 2-7.

 

[Hawkeyeinsoutherncalifornia]

Bullshit .. it’s true


QUOTE="ChiDoc, post: 5838328, member: 28464"]False. Thankfully the conference fixed this to take strength of non-divisional opponents into consideration first.

https://bigten.org/news/2011/8/10/Big_Ten_Conference_Football_Divisional_Tiebreaker.aspx

Considering the overall conference record of non-divisional conference opponents (#5 in link) Iowa will almost certainly lose in a three way tie.

Non div opp played this year:
Wisconsin (MI psu Rutgers 8-7)
NW (MI MSU Rutgers 8-7)
Iowa(psu md Indiana 7-9)


MD still has to play OSU psu and MSU
Indiana still has to play MI and Purdue,
Psu still has MI and WI

Meanwhile MSU and MI are likely to go 3-1 at worst with 4-0 potential if they each handle OSU which should cancel out Indiana winning a game or two more than Rutgers leaving Iowa still behind in this metric. Extremely long odds of winning that three way tie considering MD schedule and Indiana being 1-5 already and likely to go 2-7.[/QUOTE]

 

[David1979]

If Iowa wins out and Wisconsin loses to PSU they won’t be tied with Wisconsin. But it doesn’t matter bc I don’t think they will win out with the QB play they are getting.

 

[anon_i8nzeu2gbf0ba]

Iowa wins out, Wisconsin loses @ PSU, Iowa wins the West, even if NW also finishes 7-2. This is the way Iowa gets to Indy.