Jim Delaney has gone on record as saying he will pick the highest ranked team from his conference to represent the Big Ten in the Rose Bowl. This is almost guaranteed to be OSU.
OSU will move up some on Tuesday by virtue of teams ahead of them in the polls losing and by virtue of destroying UM in the Big House. I get that. But they will move up again after being idle, simply because they can't lose next weekend. They can't lose because they weren't good enough to win their division and earn a trip to Indy. This should not be rewarded.
They should treated as an 11-2 team for purposes of a choosing a Rose Bowl team. They should be given this loss since they weren't able to even play in a game that either Iowa or MSU will lose. This way if Iowa wins, you treat OSU and MSU as 11-2 and put MSU in by virtue of beating the Buckeyes in Columbus. If MSU wins in Indy you would have 12-1 Iowa and 11-2 OSU to compare.
I might be making too big of a deal about this, since the conference championship game loser probably gets a New Years Six game.
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