B-10 Bowl games

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Of the seven B-10 teams going to Bowl games, only Ohio State is the only one favored and then by only 2 1/2 points.

Doesn't speak well for the B-10 but I'm sure there are many factors to make excuses with.
 

Rog said:
Of the seven B-10 teams going to Bowl games, only Ohio State is the only one favored and then by only 2 1/2 points.

Doesn't speak well for the B-10 but I'm sure there are many factors to make excuses with.
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The results are what matter.
 

Actually there are 8 Big Ten teams going to bowl games.
 

I'm really surprised by the wisconsin line. I haven't seen TCU play but I assumed the badgers would have been the favorites. Hopefully vegas is right. Its always a good day when wisconsin loses.
 

My memory is short but I think that was the case last year too. It is all part of the same thing that has Wisconsin ranked lower than Stanford. Yet, in bowl games the Big 10 always stacks up well against the SEC. The SEC is a great conference but it tends to be overrated a bit, in my opinion. People always forget how well the Big 10 does against the SEC in the bowl games, probably because of the big exception to that: Ohio State getting pounded in NC games. Anyway, if you slightly over-inflate the SEC and slightly undervalue the Big 10, and then match up a ton of SEC teams against Big 10 teams... you are bound to see Big 10 underdogs.

Penn State was pretty average in the Big 10 and even though they had to play AT Alabama, they didn't exactly get embarrassed. Not saying it was down to the wire but a middling Big 10 team was at least competing with a top SEC team on the road. Yet everyone assumes Alabama will beat an 11-1 Michigan State team at a neutral site.
 


Schnauzer said:
It is all part of the same thing that has Wisconsin ranked lower than Stanford.
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Actually, Wisconsin is ranked ahead of Stanford in all three of the major human polls (Coaches, Harris, and AP, the last of which isn't factored into the BCS rankings). Wisconsin is behind Stanford in the overall BCS rankings because their computer rankings are craptacular.
 

dpodoll68 said:
Actually, Wisconsin is ranked ahead of Stanford in all three of the major human polls (Coaches, Harris, and AP, the last of which isn't factored into the BCS rankings). Wisconsin is behind Stanford in the overall BCS rankings because their computer rankings are craptacular.
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You would think that we wouldn't be seeing teams like Austin Peay on the Badgers part of the schedule that they can affect going forward.
 

josh087 said:
You would think that we wouldn't be seeing teams like Austin Peay on the Badgers part of the schedule that they can affect going forward.
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I doubt that. If Wisconsin had won the MSU game, nobody would care that they played Austin Peay. Auburn played University of Louisanna-Monroe, Oregon played a 1-11 New Mexico and Portland State, Stanford played Sacramento State, TCU played Tennessee Tech, Ohio State played 2 MAC teams, etc.

The point is, every school in the top 10 has some sort of game like that. The computers clearly didn't like the B10 this year (.690 for WIS, .680 for OSU & .590 for MSU) compared to the P10 (.820 for Stanford) and SEC (.800 for ARK). Wisconsin has no incentive to not schedule an Austin Peay because they couldn't have gone to a higher BCS bowl given the current situation.
 

Rog said:
I'm sure there are many factors to make excuses with.
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Yeah. Like the fact that the Big Ten has the best bowl-tie ins of any conference.

The 3 top conferences have 2 teams in the BCS, the rest have only 1.

Outside of the BCS, the next two biggest bowl games are both Big Ten vs. the SEC (Capital One and Outback).

People love to point to Bowl game records, but all bowl games are not created equal. So it is a meaningless statistic.
 



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