Official TIEBREAK STANDINGS...
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Yep do the math trying to predict the records:
Nebraska 6-6
Minny 7-5
Purdue 7-5
Illinois 8-4
Iowa 9-3
Wisky 9-3
NW 3-9
Based off the above:
Mich 20-16
OSU 23-13
PSU 20-16
NW could go 1-11. Nevertheless, OSU will win the tiebreaker.
It’s a really stupid tiebreaker. I like overall record and then strength of schedule of out of conference opponents.
The tiebreaker should be Big Ten record of opponents not overall recruit of opponents, if not thats idiotic.
Note that it's only Conference Games that are included in the tiebreaker.
We’re still likely boned. Need Iowa and Illinois to finish 1-2 in the west and northwestern to steal a couple games.
Just need to beat osu and um.
If Northwestern could pull out the home game against Minnesota and/or Purdue, it would go a long way for us (Iowa also gets both of them at home and we'd really need them to sweep those two).
Nebraska- MSU, Maryland, UM
Minny- MSU, OSU, UM
Purdue- Indiana, OSU, UM
Illinois- Maryland, Indiana, PSU
Iowa- MSU, Rutgers, PSU
Wisky- Rutgers, Indiana, OSU
NW- Rutgers, Maryland, PSU
It would help for NW Iowa and Illinois to win their 3 tossup crossovers against Rutgers, MSU and Maryland. There's also a reasonable chance Purdue, Minnesota and Nebraska lose all of their crossover games.
Overall doesn't work because it encourages teams to play garbage schedules like we are and Michigan is.
Notre Dame beating OSU would go a long way in rendering this moot.
Beat UM at home, lose to osu on the road, osu loses to UM leaves us in a good spot. Better record than osu, h2h over michigan. Would also be fun watching the osu homers tripping over their logic from 2016.
Beat UM at home, lose to osu on the road, osu loses to UM leaves us in a good spot. Better record than osu, h2h over michigan. Would also be fun watching the osu homers tripping over their logic from 2016.
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That's assuming ND goes 8-4 and is basically garbage along with their other loss being a blowout and them beating us in a tight game. Gotta compare apples to apples. It's not just a loss.
win all your games, you shouldn't have to worry about tiebreakers.
Multiple paths are never a bad thing.
I would add at least one more loss for Iowa and one more loss for Wisconsin based on their recent history.
And Northwestern MIGHT be able to manage one more win, and possibly two. Those still there should be playing hard this year in light of what happened.
