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<blockquote data-quote="Point-Illinois" data-source="post: 1562222" data-attributes="member: 747217"><p>If you look at this logically, allowing tOSU a chance to play for the B1G title makes sense.</p><p></p><p>They are head and shoulders above the rest of the league save Indiana, and they beat Indiana head to head. If IU was 7-0 and tOSU 5-0 but they had never played each other, maybe THAT is where you use the 6 game minimum requirement.</p><p></p><p>But as it stands now, it wouldn’t make sense to deny tOSU considering they probably would have beaten at LEAST 2 of their 3 canceled opponents and thus still made the title game with all other things being the same.</p><p></p><p>What the B1G should have done is said they would use the 6 game minimum as a starting point to make their evaluation and would assess after that if the decision became ambiguous.</p><p></p><p>Basically, incentive the teams to not try and go 3-0 and then cancel their way to a championship while letting them know they don’t have to risk player safety or spreading the virus just to get that 6th game.</p><p></p><p>An ultimate escape hatch that doesn’t give off the “rules don’t matter to the rich” vibe.</p><p></p><p>Hindsight is 20/20.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Point-Illinois, post: 1562222, member: 747217"] If you look at this logically, allowing tOSU a chance to play for the B1G title makes sense. They are head and shoulders above the rest of the league save Indiana, and they beat Indiana head to head. If IU was 7-0 and tOSU 5-0 but they had never played each other, maybe THAT is where you use the 6 game minimum requirement. But as it stands now, it wouldn’t make sense to deny tOSU considering they probably would have beaten at LEAST 2 of their 3 canceled opponents and thus still made the title game with all other things being the same. What the B1G should have done is said they would use the 6 game minimum as a starting point to make their evaluation and would assess after that if the decision became ambiguous. Basically, incentive the teams to not try and go 3-0 and then cancel their way to a championship while letting them know they don’t have to risk player safety or spreading the virus just to get that 6th game. An ultimate escape hatch that doesn’t give off the “rules don’t matter to the rich” vibe. Hindsight is 20/20. [/QUOTE]
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