Purdue (6-3, 8-4) vs #2 Michigan (9-0, 12-0) Game Week Thread

[MrNubbz]

My team has not had a healthy running back virtually all season.  In the most important game of the year,  We gave 19 carries to a decent player but he was playing linebacker three weeks ago🥴

Dallan Hayden as Fr could have got more snaps.Hits the hole finds the crease and follows the blocks.Had 147 the week before nothing wrong with giving Trayanum or Xav Johnson the rock but he clearly added another dimension.Problem is as I understand it losing the 2 Joneses  & Johnson and I forget who else off of the o-line he might have to wait another yr to blossom

[ELA]

Ohio State has openly asked the Rose Bowl to choose PSU.  They have been there 3 times in 5 years and are not confident about ticket sales. 

I don't think they are allowed to.  And why would Penn State fans care any more?  

[FearlessF]

specifically PSU or would the bucks also be fine with Purdue taking the spot

[ELA]

specifically PSU or would the bucks also be fine with Purdue taking the spot

I think Purdue fans would be in if they got there by beating Michigan.  Sort of like Utah last year.  In the CFP era, I don't think anyone cares about getting there otherwise.  Like if MSU had gone to the Rose instead of the Peach last year, as their NY6 Bowl, I don't think MSU fans would have travelled again.  I think a Big Ten champ, other than maybe Ohio State, still would travel well

[FearlessF]

Ohio State has openly asked the Rose Bowl to choose PSU.  

just think the wording seems odd

[ELA]

Also, that's why I sort of like the unseeded semifinals, where it's a 5-1-2 format, but the Big Ten-Pac 12 champs always meet in the Rose, and then the SEC to the Sugar, Big XII to the Fiesta, and ACC to the Orange, with those allotted by seeding, and then seed the Final 4.

So you'd have an 8 team playoff (assuming favorites win) of

SUGAR - #1 Georgia vs. #18 Tulane
ROSE - #2 Michigan vs. #4 USC
FIESTA - #3 TCU vs. #7 Tennessee
ORANGE - #5 Ohio State vs. #9 Clemson

There would be obvious backlash, namely due to OSU getting the easier opponent, but if you put those 4 games on NYD, it would preserve the major bowl ties,.and keep those games big, while making NYD arguably as big as ever

[FearlessF]

it would be WAY better than the 12 they're aiming for

[ELA]

it would be WAY better than the 12 they're aiming for

I don't like 4, but I hate the way they chose to go to 12 even more.  I like the 5-2-1 model I proposed above, but I think I like the 10-2, with home games even more, because it gives meaning to all of the conference championships, but in all reality, those teams are just going to get crushed anyway, so it's essentially an 8 team playoff, but the 5-8 seeds have to swat away some pests at home

[MarqHusker]

I keep hearing how there's a healthy contingent of those involved in how this 12 team comes together that are going to work hard to kill off any 'home games'.       that ain't cool but I can see how that will happen, no different than Pac scrapping a home ccg.

[Hawkinole]

Ohio State has openly asked the Rose Bowl to choose PSU.  They have been there 3 times in 5 years and are not confident about ticket sales. 

Then the feelings the Rose Bowl has, and Ohio State football has, are mutual. I would rate the probability of the Buckeyes getting in the playoff at about 40%. USC and TCU are at risk of going down this weekend.

[Mdot21]

https://twitter.com/Schultz_Report/status/1598419478853095424?s=20&t=Ewo1mDzPvMEETUtUeFdU7g


https://twitter.com/PFF_College/status/1598408341650214912?s=20&t=NkrsCM8J60yyFPfk1QN3pw

[Honestbuckeye]

I don't think they are allowed to.  And why would Penn State fans care any

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/ohio-state-reportedly-requested-to-not-be-selected-for-rose-bowl/ar-AA14LImy

[Temp430]

Makes me wonder if not the Rose Bowl, where does Ohio State want to end up besides the playoff? 

[Honestbuckeye]

Makes me wonder if not the Rose Bowl, where does Ohio State want to end up besides the playoff?

Orange Bowl.  Versus ACC champ