Yeah, so except for the years they win the lottery, they're broke.
That means their lottery years are worthless, right?
Purdue won the Big Ten in 2000 (via tiebreaker) and went to the Rose Bowl. But I guess because they'd sucked for much of the prior 30 years, we should have given that bowl slot to Michigan or Ohio State, who OF COURSE were better, despite Purdue owning H2H over both of them that year.
After all, if you look at Purdue's existence, that year was clearly a peak and the other 99.7% is much worse.
Is today "make a poor retort" day??
The argument is G5 should get a shot.
The data says they are not on the same plane as the P5.
So to pull Purdue's 2000 season out from the ether, okay.....the argument would be Purdue should get a shot? But they already do because they're in the same conference as teams they're not on the same plane on (OSU, UM, etc). The data (as you note) backs that up.
Not sure how there's a parallel here. It's not about success being worthless.
I swear to god, I haven't the slightest how some of you make these leaps from my posts. It's truly bizarre.
Purdue earned their way to the RB that season. I don't understand how a team like Cincinnati can earn their way into the playoff with 9 G5 opponents + an FCS team.
Their 2-game season became 1, with IU falling off a cliff.
They won their 1-game season.
Get 'em a plastic trophy.