Believe it or not, Penn State is still alive to play in the Big Ten championship. Here's how.
Oregon is playing in the Big Ten championship game, the conference announced on Tuesday. Seemingly, it took the Big Ten a couple days to figure out its own tiebreakers to determine that there was no scenario in which the Ducks would be left out out of the conference title game on Dec. 7 at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indiana polis.. That figure doesn’t suggest that the Nittany Lions would have no shot of beating Oregon , Indiana or Ohio State.
— Oregon’s game against Washington next week does not matter for Penn State’s Big Ten hopes. The Ducks are in. Indiana loses its final two games at Ohio State and at home against Purdue, and Ohio State loses against Michigan. That would give the Hoosiers and Buckeyes each two conference losses, pitting one-loss Penn State against Oregon in Indianapolis.What if Ohio State beats Indiana then loses to Michigan and Indiana beats Purdue? One, Ryan Day would probably be fired.
Looking at the final two weeks of Big Ten play, it’s almost impossible for Penn State to lose this tiebreaker. All of Penn State’s different opponents would have to lose out, and every Indiana opponent would have to win out for the Hoosiers to overtake the Nittany Lions’ margin.
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