Ducks Playoff Rooting Guide

[UOducksTK1]

For making and winning Big Ten Championship:
-Root for USC over Indiana
-Root for UCLA to win out (or even winning 2 of their last 3 should suffice, as long as Illinois is one of those wins)
-Root for Illinois to lose a game
-Root for Wisconsin to lose a game
-Root for Iowa to lose a game

For At large bid scenario:
-Root against the following Big 12 teams: BYU, Texas Tech, Houston. We really want Tech and Houston to drop another game.
-Root for Utah over Arizona. We don't want Arizona to enter the playoffs discussion and a big win over Utah could do that.
-Root for Iowa to lose a game
-Root for USC to lose a game
-Root for Kentucky to lose a game
-Root for South Carolina to lose to Georgia (or someone else)
-Root for LSU to lose a game
-Root for Wake Forest to lose a game (Title game vs Miami should suffice)
-Root for Ohio State, Oklahoma State, Boise State, UCLA, and USC (minus one loss) to win out to make us look better. But if all the scenarios above happen

Who gets in for at large bid scenario:
SEC (4): Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Tennessee
Ind (1): Notre Dame
Big Ten (3): UCLA, Indiana, Oregon
G6 (1): Boise State
Big 12 (2): Utah, BYU
ACC (1): Miami (FL)

For the At-Large bid, I actually think the Big 12 is the biggest roadblock. BYU, Texas Tech, and Houston have fairly easy schedules left. Also Kentucky dropping a game is important, otherwise they would likely be the 5th SEC team in.

[UOducksTK1]

Week 11 Rooting Guide For Big Ten Championship:
@4 UCLA over Illinois
@Maryland over Wisconsin
Purdue over @15 Iowa
18 USC over @9 Indiana

Week 11 Rooting Guide For At Large Bid:
2 Utah over @23 Arizona
@1 Georgia over 22 Missouri
@9 Indiana over 18 USC
6 Texas over @21 LSU (Texas losing could help, if they lost again. But easier to just eliminate LSU)
@Texas A&M over 8 Tennessee
Baylor over @10 BYU
Florida over @11 Kentucky
@25 Oklahoma State over 12 Texas Tech
@Colorado over 14 Houston
Purdue over @15 Iowa
@Arkansas over 17 South Carolina
@Oklahoma over 19 Ole Miss
@20 Ohio State over Northwestern
@24 Boise State over Oregon State

I'll throw in unlikely upsets, but doesn't hurt to hope for:
@Vanderbilt over 3 Alabama
Boston College over @5 Notre Dame
Duke over @7 Miami (This means very little, but Miami sucks lol)

[Phalanx]

Ha, I was asking chatgpt for all of this info last night too. That's the beauty of the new rankings. Oregon is back in the conversation. They just need to win the rest of the games and hopefully the rest will fall into place. I don't think Indiana will lose to USC, or that Oregon gets into that Big Ten Championship game, but I still think they would be in play for an at-large berth at 9-3. Just have to take care of business and see what else happens in these other games you mentioned.

The fact that we are still talking about the playoffs at all after the horrific nature of the three losses is pretty amazing. Keep going, Ducks!