The BiG 10 Conferance has had "Rough Going" Come Play-Off time.

[MackDonald]

The Big 10, arguably one of the best college football conferences in America, has had a rough time trying to impact the outcome of these play-off games and the ultimate National Championship with only one team gaining a coveted spot in the "final 4" back in 2016 and proceeded to get run off the field by Clemson, 31-0 in the semi's. Why is this ? We've heard all the arguments many of which may have merit but others...not so sure.

Listed below are a few:

1. The Big 10 teams beat-up on each other leaving too much scar-tissue come selection time (this year was a good example of that, the Buckeyes, the conference champions ended up (#6) according to the committee).

2. Those "Southern Schools" never have to play in the sleet and cold during their conference schedules which allows them to retain more "vinegar" with fewer injuries for the end of the year stretch.

3. Those "Southern Schools? play "soft" out-of-conference schedules that allows them to end-up with 12-13 wins.

4. The "politics" of it all: Those Southern Institutions of higher learning must have some "deep state connection" with the committee that the schools north of the Mason-Dixon Line haven't been able to figure out to date.

I'm certain there are more reasons why the Big-10 has been coming up short during the past 3 years with some legitimacy but Adding Rutgers and Maryland to the Conference make-up probably hasn't contributed to leagues prowess compared to the SEC adding Missouri and Texas A & M.

 

[Knightrofins]

Penn state went to overtime with app state
utah state almost beats Michigan state
Purdue and NW lose to MAC teams

At least when the SEC plays weak conferences, they win. Except Arkansas. They lost to Colorado state

 

[slapshot]

Maryland and Rutgers didn’t make the B10 better it was all about money

the money justifies making the B10 weaker

they are the cupcakes of the B10 schedule

 

[razorbackpicks]

The BIG 10 doesn’t have the right to cry over this. If their best team doesn’t lose to a middle of the pax Purdue they are in. If their second best team doesn’t lose to two potential play off teams (Michigan posing to tOSU and ND, thinking before selection show of course) they are In.

With it it being only 4 teams, they win they are in, more than UCF can say

 

[bornlivedie]

Hey, Knight i guess LSU beat Troy in a home night game last year? PSU & MSU did not LOSE. App. St and Utah St. are respectable teams. what a douchebag you are.

 

[tlee4lizard]

Actually in all honesty The Big 10 has been extremely weak for a long long time ... No one in the conference had a good out of conference win.. Speaking of cup cakes Ohio St. Never schedules any big match ups out-of- conference ... AND when they have they have lost everyone for the last 15 years...
Northwestern never even had an out of conference win.
Michigan got dominated by Notre Dame then played in their weak conference and everyone thought they were good .. Nope...
I can remember the beat downs Ohio St. Took 2 years in a row by scheduling weak out of conference then walking through the Little 10 only to get embarrassed in two straight title games by over 30 points ... Even their alumni was begging for them to not even make the BCS any more..
The Big ten has been a joke for 15 years except Ezekiel Elliot led Buckeyes one season..
If people are crying about the SEC it's out of jealousy because they are hands down the best conference and have been ... Other than Clemson their is no one else...
Might look at your Vegas odds to understand that .. Georgia would have been favored over Oklahoma or Ohio St.

 

[tlee4lizard]

I am sure Georgia fans hate Alabama because if not for Bama they would have back to back championships

 

[Knightrofins]

Before the season started, many could argue that the Big 10 East was the best division in football. We were expecting BIG things from Ohio State, Michigan, Penn State, and Sparty.

We go to opening weekend. Ohio state had internal problems with their coaches. Michigan looks like crap in losing to Notre Dame. Penn State has to rally in the final minute to go to overtime with an unknown App State. Sparty was losing to an unknown UTAH State in the 4th quarter and had to score a TD with 2 minutes left to beat them.

Right off the bat, the 4 powerhouse teams were all "having problems".

Lets look at the B1G West. That is known as 1 of the "weaker" divisions. Even last year as Wisky ran the table, they werent getting that much respect in the CFP due to lack of schedule.

Now lets look at B1G losses to "lesser teams"

Michigan State (who we thought was powerful) loses to Arizona State in week 2 (I still call that one a "body clock game")
Maryland loses 35-14 Temple
Rutgers loses to Kansas and Buffalo
Division champ Northwestern loses to Duke and Akron
Predicted champ Wisky loses to BYU
Purdue loses to Eastern Michigan
Nebraska loses to Troy (something tells me if the first Nebraska game wasnt postponed and Nebraska won that game, their season would have been a lot better)
Illinois loses to USF

ELITE conferences dont lose those most of those games to "lesser" teams.

As far as post #6 goes, I will respectfully disagree. Ohio State usually plays 1 very good out of conference team every season. They did play TCU in Jerry's world. Just we didnt know that TCU would be that good this year.

As far as post #5 goes, I have no clue what you are talking about but lets not call each other names. You want to come after me, fine...We'll have some "fun"...Just not on this thread!!!

 

[bornlivedie]

I was out of line....sorry.