So, you're saying we still got a chance:

If Ohio State loses again to Michigan, the Ducks are in position to earn a rematch against Indiana over the Wolverines because of an expected higher common opponent winning percentage. That same edge would send the Ducks to Indianapolis should the Buckeyes lose to UCLA. Should Ohio State lose to Rutgers, the Ducks would finish ahead of Ohio State thanks to a better record among five common Big Ten opponents.

College football CFP conference tiebreakers for SEC, ACC, AAC, Big 10

So, we run the table and any stumble by OSU, we're in CShip game.

I'm for it. Win it and get a top 4 seed and a bye. One less round of playoffs . . . you can't lose a bye game and rely upon learning from last year's lessons.

29 minutes ago, Steven A said:

Win it and get a top 4 seed and a bye. One less round of playoffs . . . you can't lose a bye game and rely upon learning from last year's lessons.

It's the same amount of games regardless... The bye just moves. If you miss the conference championship game you get. A bye that week but play a week earlier.

Worst scenario is making the championship game and losing it and needing to play a first round game anyways.

I would prefer not being in the Championship game but being ranked 4-8, as we get a home game. Purely a selfish motive in wanting to go to a playoff game at Autzen.

Yep, given the track record, I prefer a 5-8 seed for sure

I think the goal should be to win the conference each year and let the playoff seedings work themselves out. I bet the coaches and players would love a rematch with Indiana. That's the mentality of great competitors.

Just win baby! That is what the motto has to be, I'm not really bothered with playing the conference title game or not, our mission is simply to win as many games as possible, we have to win out just to get into the playoff from what I'm seeing.

If that ends with us playing Indiana in the title game, so be it, I'm sure we'll love a chance to get some revenge. If we don't, I'm hopeful we'll end up between 7 and 5 so that we'll get a home game and not play the number one ranked team (right now I'm assuming it will be tOSU).

5 hours ago, Steven A said:

you can't lose a bye game

Boy, was I wrong . . . Mich St was on a bye and lost 14 games!!!

5 hours ago, JabbaNoBargain said:

Yep, given the track record, I prefer a 5-8 seed for sure

I did mean 5-8 above, but cannot type and think

I mean, the team will never aim to not win the conference, that’s not how college sports work…but we saw rust versus rest on full display last year.