Early look at UW Oregon

Canadawg said:

Wazzu not beating usc and cal. Next week is still a huge game regardless of the little numbers beside the name. If the pac had a normal year each team would be something like 9-2 with ooc games.

If uw can pull it off this years conference championship means just as much as any other year and is probably more impressive considering all the hurdles

Agreed. The winner will feel a lot better about the season.

DoogieMcDoogerson said:

If WSU Wins out and UW beats Oregon, here are the tiebreakers.

1. Head-to-head (best record in games among the tied teams)
2. Record in games played within the division

Stop right there. Kind of ambiguous. UW would be 2-1, WSU would be 3-1

3. Record against the next highest placed team in the division (based on record in all games played within the Conference), proceeding through the division
4. Record in common Conference games
5. Team with the highest College Football Playoff (CFP) ranking
6. Cumulative winning percentage of each tied team’s Conference opponents
7. Highest ranking by SportSource Analytics following the last weekend of regular-season games

Preface: what a sad and strange reality. I just watched the worst Oregon performance of my girlfriend's cat's lifetim (he wasn't born for Oregon-Arizona 2018) and now I made a mental chart of division championship scenarios that will only happen if 1-1 Cuog somehow beats USC on a Sunday.

Note: all of this is moot if either team loses or one of Wazzu's games is canceled and they will be at 3 games played when the minimum to be eligible will be 4. The minimum is calculated by average number of games played by teams and then within 1 game of that, but by 1 game they mean 1 rounded down, so 5.25 is 4. There have been 9 cancelations out of 72 potential games, on pace for 5.25 which would mean 4 games is enough. Even if all games are canceled it doesn't get it to where 3 games is enough. Berkeley has a stay at home order starting tomorrow, game is in Pullman.

Wazzu is playing a South division team tomorrow, so both teams will have the same number of divisional games. It wouldn't matter if it was 3-1 against 2-1 anyway, since the pandemic rules say if you have the same number of loses and your number of wins is within one you're tied.

It would come down to tie breaker number 3. The only teams both would have played are Oregon State and Oregon. Stanford can finish ahead of Oregon, but Wazzu hasn't played them. 0-1 is the same as 0-0 in that case. Since this case has Washington beating Oregon they would get the tiebreaker.

Tiebreaker 4 is the same, since there are no other common games. Tiebreaker 5 is possible, if either team is ranked. Tiebreaker 6 would depend on who has a better combined winning percentage: USC+Cal or Utah+Arizona+Stanford.

DodgyBloke said:

I get the feeling from a fan base perspective neither team wants to play each other because both teams don’t know which team will show up

How can you possibly think Oregon is going to beat you?

I can’t name one thing they do well. In fact most of what they do is poor.

Fuck Oregon for giving me hope.

MikeSeaver said:

backthepack said:

MikeSeaver said:

DodgyBloke said:

I get the feeling from a fan base perspective neither team wants to play each other because both teams don’t know which team will show up

How can you possibly think Oregon is going to beat you?

I can’t name one thing they do well. In fact most of what they do is poor.

We are the worst first half team ever though

Second half seems to go pretty well.

Yeah when we decide to actually throw the ball