5th place in the B1G…

This might be worth a separate thread, and there is no way the B1G could have known this, but in the way that the SEC hacked the system to always benefit from the 4 team playoff, the B1G is on the precipice of hacking the 12 team playoff.

It is entirely possible the B1G ends up with 12-0 Oregon, 11-1 tOSU, 11-1 PSU and 11-1 Indiana.

The SEC will definitely have multiple 2 loss teams and their best case scenario is either Texas or Georgia/Tennessee only finishes with 1 loss as the conference champion. That puts at least 2 of our at-large candidates (3 if tOSU beats Oregon) ahead of all the SEC at-large candidates in the loss column.

Seeds 5-8 would be the B1G & SEC champ losers and at least 1 if not both of the other B1G teams. With home playoff games. In cold ass B1G stadiums in late December. If A&M beats Texas (A&M is at home), it's possible the SEC would not host a single playoff game in the first round if Georgia wins the conference.

And I am fully here for seeds 5-8 being three from the B1G and Notre Dame. Get those southern schools out of their region and see what happens.

Initial committee rankings should show how much of a possibility this is.