Another day, another wait for some official information to come out from the Big Ten on whether it will reverse course and have a fall football season.
Hopefully, we’ll hear something soon, but in the meantime, there’s a lot of unknowns if the league decides to begin play in mid-October as has been reported. That would mean likely no bye-weeks and a sprint through an eight or nine-game schedule before playing a Big Ten Championship Game right before the last release of the College Football Playoff Rankings.
What you could be dealing with in that case is a Big Ten team like Ohio State sitting there with a great resume, but with a game or two less played when than others. How then would the CFP Committee measure teams up against one another to determine who makes the Playoff?
It’s an interesting narrative to what’s going on, and you have to wonder what would happen in that case. In a format that has a lot of unprecedented situations, that would take the cake.
Yahoo Sports national college football writer Pete Thamel was asked about that proposition and he believes the Committee would have to (and want to) take a look at a Big Ten team that has those types of credentials.
“If you can play the Big Ten title game — which by the way is a huge financial component — it’s a huge part of the television package,” Thamel told BTN. “If you can have a champion, if you can squeeze in a season and have a champion, I can’t fathom the College Football Playoff would not wait to accommodate the Big Ten.”
Let's say the season kicks off October 17.
Would that allow the B1G enough time to get a team in the CFP?@PeteThamel thinks so.
Full interview ➡️ https://t.co/emju4fE6lW pic.twitter.com/rURnIyCD3V
— Big Ten Network (@BigTenNetwork) September 15, 2020
Buckeyes Wire has reached out to the College Football Playoff to get their thoughts on a shortened season and how a Big Ten team would be viewed and it declined to comment at this time.
We’ll continue to stay on top of it though, and let you know when things continue to change with this very fluid situation.
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