All this makes me think is we basically finally are Minnesota except we somehow lost to Rutgers. Also all the biggest conferences other than the SEC the teams at the top haven't and don't play each other. Make college football great again.
This might be worth a separate thread, and there is no way the B1G could have known this, but in the way that the SEC hacked the system to always benefit from the 4 team playoff, the B1G is on the precipice of hacking the 12 team playoff.
It is entirely possible the B1G ends up with 12-0 Oregon, 11-1 tOSU, 11-1 PSU and 11-1 Indiana.
The SEC will definitely have multiple 2 loss teams and their best case scenario is either Texas or Georgia/Tennessee only finishes with 1 loss as the conference champion. That puts at least 2 of our at-large candidates (3 if tOSU beats Oregon) ahead of all the SEC at-large candidates in the loss column.
Seeds 5-8 would be the B1G & SEC champ losers and at least 1 if not both of the other B1G teams. With home playoff games. In cold ass B1G stadiums in late December. If A&M beats Texas (A&M is at home), it's possible the SEC would not host a single playoff game in the first round if Georgia wins the conference.
And I am fully here for seeds 5-8 being three from the B1G and Notre Dame. Get those southern schools out of their region and see what happens.
Initial committee rankings should show how much of a possibility this is.
