College Football Thread

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Pinstripe Bowl gets the ax for this year.

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/Article/College-football-New-Era-Pinstripe-Bowl-canceled-statement-coronavirus-ACC-Big-Ten-155455261/?fbclid=IwAR3SwALiNxkXEZBFA5yrNEqIaDdfpK9-2b4JloFnhpvchKVjVkRinahE46E

[Brass Cannon]

25 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

Pinstripe Bowl gets the ax for this year.

https://247sports.com/college/indiana/Article/College-football-New-Era-Pinstripe-Bowl-canceled-statement-coronavirus-ACC-Big-Ten-155455261/?fbclid=IwAR3SwALiNxkXEZBFA5yrNEqIaDdfpK9-2b4JloFnhpvchKVjVkRinahE46E

Shouldn’t effect us if we keep winning 

[Naturalhoosier]

OSU -Illinois game cancelled due to Corona. One down. One to go. ;)

[HoosierAloha]

OSU -Illinois game cancelled due to Corona. One down. One to go. ;)

Just saw that and came here to comment. Natty like lightning.

IU vs. Northwestern for the Big Ten Championship would be so 2020.


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[JaybobHoosier]

OSU -Illinois game cancelled due to Corona. One down. One to go. ;)

How crazy would that be lol?!


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[Hoosierfan2017]

Seems unlikely that they’ll play next week, no? Seems like when teams have outbreaks they miss more than one week. 

[Naturalhoosier]

12 minutes ago, HoosierAloha said:

Just saw that and came here to comment. Natty like lightning.

IU vs. Northwestern for the Big Ten Championship would be so 2020.


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Watching the Oregon-Oregon St game and saw it pop on the ticker. Was surprised it hadn’t been posted. #johnnyonthespot 

[HoosierAloha]

PAC 12 looking like amateur hour


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[Stuhoo]

1 hour ago, Naturalhoosier said:

OSU -Illinois game cancelled due to Corona. One down. One to go. ;)

So explain to me how missed games could = no championship for OSU.

 

[Naturalhoosier]

10 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

So explain to me how missed games could = no championship for OSU.

 

2 cancelled games = No Big Ten Championship appearance

That was my understanding anyway. 
 

I don’t feel like reading all of this but here’s some added info. 
https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/Explaining-Big-Ten-Championship-tiebreakers-with-canceled-games-COVID-19-153768797/

[Hoosierfan2017]

22 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

So explain to me how missed games could = no championship for OSU.

 

You have to play 6 games to be eligible, unless the average number of games for Big 10 schools falls under 5.5. I saw that there are 38 games left to be played, and only 13 need to actually be played to reach the average. 

[WayneFleekHoosier]

2 cancelled games = No Big Ten Championship appearance
That was my understanding anyway. 
 
I don’t feel like reading all of this but here’s some added info. 
https://247sports.com/LongFormArticle/Explaining-Big-Ten-Championship-tiebreakers-with-canceled-games-COVID-19-153768797/

Zero chance the B1G allows this to happen to its golden boy. They will find a way.


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[Brass Cannon]

9 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

Zero chance the B1G allows this to happen to its golden boy. They will find a way.


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If another opponent cancels *cough* Michigan *cough*   I’m sure the Big Ten will do whatever it takes to find them a game 

[Brass Cannon]

Just read that the Covid was within Ohio State so good chance they miss another game with detecting it so late 

[BGVille Hoosierfan]

Hypothetically IF Ohio State has another game cancelled and IU runs the table and win the B1G Championship game, am I crazy for thinking we’d be headed to the College Football Playoffs??? We’d be 8-1 with a road win against top 20 Wisconsin and a win over top 8 NW and a B1G Championship with our only loss at OSU by a touchdown. Does anybody else think Harbaugh is gonna have his players licking doorknobs to screw over OSU in his final year at Michigan. In my book, that would be counted as his only win against Ohio State!

[JaybobHoosier]

Zero chance the B1G allows this to happen to its golden boy. They will find a way.


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[LamarCheeks]

I find it so interesting that three of the nation's blue-blood programs (or maybe former blue-blood program in Nebraska's case) have coaches pretty much their entire fan base clamored for. They just HAD to have these guys ... 

Michigan -- Jim Harbaugh
Nebraska -- Scott Frost
Texas ---Tom Herman

These guys were gonna come in, unite the fan base and compete for conference and even national titles. How's that working out? Harbaugh and Herman are on the proverbial hot seat and while Frost probably hasn't been back in Huskerville long enough to be on the hot seat, he doesn't appear to be making many friends. 

Meanwhile, we chug along with little ol' Tom Allen at the helm. 

Kinda fun, isn't it? 

[HoosierAloha]

Hypothetically IF Ohio State has another game cancelled and IU runs the table and win the B1G Championship game, am I crazy for thinking we’d be headed to the College Football Playoffs??? We’d be 8-1 with a road win against top 20 Wisconsin and a win over top 8 NW and a B1G Championship with our only loss at OSU by a touchdown. Does anybody else think Harbaugh is gonna have his players licking doorknobs to screw over OSU in his final year at Michigan. In my book, that would be counted as his only win against Ohio State!

I believe they’d have the 12th place SEC team in before IU. IF that somehow does play out that way we’d have to at least be knocking on the door.


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[Brass Cannon]

1 hour ago, jbell833 said:

Hypothetically IF Ohio State has another game cancelled and IU runs the table and win the B1G Championship game, am I crazy for thinking we’d be headed to the College Football Playoffs??? We’d be 8-1 with a road win against top 20 Wisconsin and a win over top 8 NW and a B1G Championship with our only loss at OSU by a touchdown. Does anybody else think Harbaugh is gonna have his players licking doorknobs to screw over OSU in his final year at Michigan. In my book, that would be counted as his only win against Ohio State!

Might buy him another year from the fanbase 

[LIHoosier]

1 hour ago, jbell833 said:

Hypothetically IF Ohio State has another game cancelled and IU runs the table and win the B1G Championship game, am I crazy for thinking we’d be headed to the College Football Playoffs??? We’d be 8-1 with a road win against top 20 Wisconsin and a win over top 8 NW and a B1G Championship with our only loss at OSU by a touchdown. Does anybody else think Harbaugh is gonna have his players licking doorknobs to screw over OSU in his final year at Michigan. In my book, that would be counted as his only win against Ohio State!

The CFP took Ohio St a few years ago over Penn St though PSU won the B1G and beat O$U head to head solely cuz PSU had 2 losses in September compared to O$U's 1. If anything, they'll use this wacky year as an excuse to put an undefeated Cincinnati or BYU in to keep some grandstanding Senator off their behind.