2019 was great I could barely watch the fourth-quarter of the Auburn bowl game because I had tears in my eyes. The nine win seasons, not so much the games weren’t great and the ultimate outcome sucked considering our schedule and all the meat left on the bone.
It amazes me that there are still fans that want to view 2020 as a normal season. Even though there was nothing normal about what went on that year.
If MN went 6-1 in 2020 no one would discount it.
MN fans don’t because we had a bad yearS. If we were 6-1 in 2020 people would not discount it.
That's a crock. 2020 was a clusterf%$k of a season for every team. The records that year truly don't matter because teams were playing under such odd circumstances, schedules were jacked up, rosters were jacked up, the whole thing was a mess.
People would definitely discount it.
Anyone who can see beyond just a W/L record when evaluating a season doesn't put any stock in 2020. Every team deserves a mulligan for that year, no matter what their record was.
Yes, but it would mostly be a different group of people.
I agree. It doesn't matter having three undefeated teams as long as you still get all three into the playoff and it's very unlikely an undefeated B1G or SEC team gets left out. Non-P2 conferences better hope they never get left out. If one does, you can bet it only happens once and then the P2 will change the rules to allow three automatic qualifiers from the B1G & SEC.
I would.
Of course not, that would be for the other fan bases to do.
Given the choice we’d all choose to do well during a non covid full length season over the shortened Covid year, so we all discount it to some degree.
It amazes me how hung up some get in regards to those games. The games were played, the records count but trying to draw any meaningful conclusions from what happened during those 2020 games is just foolish.
Agreed, there was no meaning to the 2020 season in terms of judging who had the best team. I don't see how you can say there was between the forfeits/cancellations and some games where they were playing 15-20 players short like MN did against NEB. Let's be honest, there were some people with contracts who wanted games played as there was a lot of money on the line. On top of that, there was a certain B1G commissioner just starting to negotiate what would become a blockbuster TV deal with that same group of people.
Of course we would. It didn't count. That's why every player on every team got an additional year of eligibility.
I’d take MN every time on this
I agree it was a cluster, but it still counts.
See post #45
Will depend, as I think they could get in a bidding war with Auburn. Both programs have deep booster pockets.
If you had said 2023, you would win hands down.
This is a great point about essentially that the conference championship game is pointless and serves no benefit other than giving TV an extra game to make some money on.
Could have been a little bit of a trap game for Ohio State getting caught looking ahead to next week against Penn State.
