Playoffs
- Thread starter Newell
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Oh sorry. I thought you were referencing a hypothetical home game in the playoffs for some reason
If they are good enough, they will win. Then, things even back up in the quarter-finals. The Big XII Champion (Iowa State or Arizona State) should be good enough to go beat a non-conference champion on the road. Not saying it will be easy, but if the Cyclones or Sun Devils are good enough, they can win. If they do win, it will be super sweet!
Wouldn’t they want that extra data point? ( I say this with sarcasm given past committees screwing of big12)
I personally am not a fan of an injury riddled team that doesn’t have blue blood depth, playing in a conference title followed up by a road game against the 5 seed.
Versus Boise winning a home conference championship game, then sit back until January 1st. Just sucks is all for either asu or isu
My worst fear is ISU wins the Big 12 Championship then has to go on the road to face Ohio State in Columbus. No matter who wins the Big 12 championship game I would not put it past the committee to have the lone Big 12 team they put in the playoffs have to play on the road against a 2 or 3 loss SEC or Big 10 team. I think we kind of saw this coming when the SEC and Big 10 started poaching the teams they did to get to 16 that this playoff system was rigged to get at minimum 8 of the 12 teams from those 2 conferences then throw a bone to the leftovers.
I'm a realist and regardless of who hosts a game I would expect if we had to play Ohio State 10 times we maybe get lucky and win 1 of those games because the talent gap that real. BUT... you also have to play the hand you were dealt with your conference schedule and win when it matters and we did that Saturday and Ohio State did not. We all gave Iowa crap for winning the Big 10 West then getting blown out in the Big 10 championship game and given this 12 team format I still think they would deserved a playoff spot. What irks me is even with this 12 team format I would be shocked it the committee were to give ASU or ISU a home game with the automatic bid when the team they will face may not have even made their conference championship game.
I'm just shocked that college football got evrn more watered down with mega conferences meaning fewer big matchups, expanded playoffs making losses less meaningful, and NIL/transfer rules leading to weaker top teams.
Shocked!
I'd rather the Big XII Champion have the Fiesta Bye too. But if they have to play on the road, they can go show everybody that they were wrong!
In and of itself, Iowa State @ Penn State, @ Notre Dame, @ Oregon, @ Tennessee, etc. would be an incrdible CFB experience for Iowa State Football.
Boise is making ALL their bones on a close loss to Oregon 3 months ago.
What people forget is that the first couple games, Oregon was rough getting going before they turned into a wagon.
No one is talking about how good Idaho is, but they only lost by 10 at Oregon in week 1.
The old blue blood depth is ancient history now that the Portal and NIL are the norm. You're seeing it throughout college football which is why we don't have any real dominant teams this year. The blue bloods can't stack up the five stars at each position because those once backups now go and earn a bunch of money and start at another school. Oklahoma's dealing with this. They've had a bunch of injuries but lack the depth they once had as the norm.
I'd also add that I don't know any other P-4 teams who've lost like 4 starters at LB and have had lots of other guys miss games due to injury but also finished 10-2 and are playing in a conf champ game and a playoff game potentially. Whether we call that "blue blood depth" or not, we certainly have quality depth that we've never had previously.
I was curious, so I looked up projected spreads for these matchups per KFord:
@ PSU: -10
@ ND: -14.5
@ Oregon: -11.5
@ UT: -11.5
Any road game will be very tough sledding.
Why not a nice 20 Dec game at Jack Trice watching #8 ISU host #9 PSU? After all, that's the reason they were telling the crowd on the field to leave as soon as possible...right? They wanted the field to be somewhat serviceable in case ISU needs to host. Hey, a guy can dream...
Absolutely no way ISU clocks in at 8. The odds of me winning the PowerBall are literally higher.
If I see one more post about hosting a playoff game I might lose my mind.
yeah, not sure why there is so much confusion to this.
we are either a 3 or 4 seed and get a bye or 10-12 seed with a road first round road game, pending the results of next weekend.
we lose Saturday and we are in a bowl game in Orlando (potentially against Miami) or San Antonio (potentially Washington St, which would suck to play IMO)
an orlando game against Miami would probably be a better game for us.
Depending on Saturday's results, Alamo is most likely:
ISU or BYU (Big 12) against Colorado (Pac-12)
The Alamo Bowl's history and intent is to take the highest-ranked teams available to them -- and if they have the chance to take two ranked teams that tied for the Big 12 regular season (and didn't play each other), that's a slam dunk.
On the Pac-12 Legacy side of the ledger, that's probably going to be Colorado since Oregon will be in the CFP, no other old P12 school is near the top 25, and ASU/BYU would be a regular-season rematch.
I went ahead and booked a hotel in Ames just in case we host a playoff game.
