Assuming we beat iowa but wisconsin beats us, and each of us win all other remaining games...who goes to bigten championship?
what is divisional tie breakers
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If Wisky beats NU, the Cats don't deserve the Championship game. UW is way overrated. Cats win in Madtown.
If that were to happen, we'd likely fall all the way to tiebreaker #5, and it would be whoever is ranked highest (see below), because we'd all be 7-1 so the first 4 don't break the tie. Note this is not he AP poll but rather the College Football Playoff poll i.e. selection committee.
When you think about it that's pretty dumb considering how dependent it is on the sequence of games, depending on what the selection committee thinks.
1. The records of the three tied teams will be compared against each other.
2. The records of the three tied teams will be compared within their division.
3. The records of the three teams will be compared against the next highest placed teams in their division in order of finish (4, 5, and 6).
4. The records of the three teams will be compared against all common conference opponents.
5. The highest ranked team in the first College Football Playoff poll following the completion of Big Ten regular season conference play shall be the representative in the Big Ten Championship Game, unless the two highest ranked tied teams are ranked within one spot of each other in the College Football Playoff poll. In this case, the head-to-head results of the top two ranked tied teams shall determine the representative in the Big Ten Championship Game.
6. The team with the best overall winning percentage [excluding exempted games] shall be the representative.
7. The representative will be chosen by random draw.
That may be true but what a team deserves has nothing to do with the process. I heard a head coach beer chug was #7 in the tie breaker rules. With fitz being a bottled water guy i like our odds with more appropriate tie breakers.
Number 7 is lame. I know this is an NU Homer idea but it would be better if it went to the team with the best graduation rate over the last 4 years or less homer, the best B1G record over the last 4 years. Make it be something to be proud of.
The only way you'd ever get that low is if NONE of the tied teams were ranked. Since Iowa and NU both went 4-0 in non-conference that simply wouldn't happen in a 7-1 situation. anything less than 7-1 that would jeopardize rankings would likely cause one of the other tiebreakers to hit.
I suppose you are right and the final tie breaker has to be a coin flip or sure as the world the two teams would have equal graduation rates.
Let's think about the "most tied" situation we can think of in recent history, the year 2000, in which Purdue, Michigan, and NU all finished 8-3 in the regular season (and 6-2 in the Big Ten). They were ranked 14 (Purdue), 17 (Michigan), 18 (NU), in the final regular season AP poll. Back then, the reason Purdue went was because the tiebreaker was who had gone least recently.
My memory may be a little foggy, but I remember that Purdue went to the Rose Bowl because they had beaten both Michigan and Northwestern head to head.
I finally stopped being lazy and looked it up. Purdue beat Michigan 32-31 on October 7, 2000, and then beat NU 41-28 on October 14. Purdue got the Rose Bowl by virtue of best record head to head of the three tied teams.
