The restart of the Big Ten normal season will reintroduce some of the most sensitive groups in the Bowl Subdivision and radically replace the state of the school football playoffs, which during the first two weeks of the 2020 season was intended to be governed through the ACC and the SECOND.
There’s still a chance it’s true. While the SEC won’t start the normal season until September 26, the convention has 8 groups in this week’s Amway Coach Survey, adding 4 of the six most sensitive. The ACC has one-year-old Clemson and Notre Dame, as well as several blacks. horse contenders in North Carolina, Miami and Louisville.
Big Ten, who had six groups in the pre-season coaching poll, is more likely to step back from acc to regain a place together or alone in the SEC between the 4 Power Five leagues (The Pac-12, which postponed their season just after Big Ten, does not seem close to playing again).
The league’s return will create a more balanced and unpredictable playoff race that now includes Ohio State, Penn State and more. The Nittany Lions No. 7, No. 12 Wisconsin, No. 15 Michigan, No. 18 Minnesota and No. 23 Iowa. Two other teams, Nebraska and Indiana, got votes.
Since the FBS as a whole, bringing the convention back into the fold particularly improves the overall benefit of school football and raises the number of groups in competition to 90, below the overall number of 130, but more than enough to lead an abbreviated normal season in it and playoffs.
Basically, the inclusion of the Big Ten means that the 2020 season will end with an undisputed national champion without an asterisk, the State of Ohio regaining its position in the most sensitive of the Big Ten and as a favorite to triumph in the playoffs and win the national championship. The Buckeyes’ return means that all notable finalists in the preseason playoffs, with the exception of Oregon, will now be part of the playoff quest.
BIG TEN BACK: Giving in to pressure, Big Ten plans to start an eight-game football season on October 24
WARNING: College football celebrates COVID-19 epidemics, ridicules cautious approach
Even groups of the Big Ten who are not in the playoffs get huge advantages just by being able to play a 2020 season and prevent the long-term effect on recruitment, list control and player progression that would possibly have come with winter postponement. spring.
And the Big Ten’s resolve to play hurts the ACC, which now has a much lower chance of hitting two groups in the national semifinals, which only the SEC did with the postseason format lifestyles. The chances of the Big 12s never have. it has been taken seriously, even with only 3 Power Five leagues at stake, although the league’s relative weakness does not replace Oklahoma’s prestige as an annual contender.
Although the ACC has more playoff features than in the past, thanks to the addition of Notre Dame’s transitority, the convention conforms to the overall intensity of the Big Ten and SEC.
One possible problem: after recomposing general low-season workouts and full touch training since August, will Big Ten groups have enough time to prepare for a normal season starting October 24?
Several coaches, including Jim Harbaugh of Michigan and Scott Frost of Nebraska, said they want 3 weeks to prepare before the season began.
However, with just over a month before the league’s scheduled start, the groups appear to have enough runways to be fit to compete, unless educational schedules are disrupted through COVID-19, an apparent fear. for each and every one of the FBS teams.
Another uncertainty is how a shortened normal season will be the position of the Big Ten on the playoff variety committee. Like the SEC, the Big Ten season will not feature non-conference games. However, SEC groups will play 10 regular-season games opposed to the top ten eight; The ACC and Big 12 groups, which allow an opponent outside the conference, will play 11 and 10 games respectively.
That can prevent the state of Ohio from emerating to the most sensible classification of training or playoffs. championship game.
The eight-game schedule also would not have a significant effect on the overall reputation of the Big Ten, even if betting convention games would only leave maximum groups between 3 and six wins. In the expected finale of the normal season on December 19, the difference of one or two games would not save the convention champion from reaching the national semi-finals.
The result will be a season approaching normality: after a bumpy road, Big Ten will be at the center of the playoff debate.