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The 3-Way Tiebreaker Scenario - Root for Iowa to Lose

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Signor Ferrari's picture
October 16, 2023 at 10:06am
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Getting WAY ahead of ourselves here, but that's what forums are for.

If OSU, PSU and Michigan win out, except for a split against each other (e.g., we lose to PSU, beat Michigan and Michigan loses to PSU, all of us 11-1 and 7-1 in conference) then...

Tiebreakers here: https://bigten.org/news/2011/8/10/Big_Ten_Conference_Football_Divisional...

I believe the first tiebreaker that isn't guaranteed identical would be #5 - combined records of non-division conference opponents. 

Good news:  We only have one non-common opponent with Michigan - they play Nebraska and we play Wisconsin.  I like Wisky's odds of having a better conference record.

Mixed news: It's murky with PSU

OSU:

Purdue (1-3) 
Wisconsin (2-1)
Minnesota (1-2)

PSU:

NW (1-2)
Illinois (1-3)
Iowa (3-1)

But... PSU has already played all of theirs, we have only played one, so that's two more guaranteed loses (if this scenario happens) for OSU's teams.  Iowa beating Wisconsin is/was potentially huge if this nightmare scenario plays out.  

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