Ncaa Futures Plays

[Catdawg]

I currently have two futures on who will win the Big Ten (Ohio St) and the PAC-10 (Wash ST).

Ohio St tied with Iowa and IF Wash St beats UCLA next weekend, WSU will be tied with USC.

Anyone know how conference winners are determined? An obvious tie-breaker could be head-to-head... WSU beat USC, but OSU never played Iowa.

Thanks for any input.

 

[Fluk]

Catdawg that is a very good question. I would assume that yes in a tiebreaker, if the teams had played head to head the winner of that game would win the conference, so you should win your WSU pick.

However, with the Big-Ten since OSU never played Iowa, I would assume that you just push this one. :shrug: Who knows though.


Good picks though, just sucks the Big Ten doesn't have a conference championship (although, I'm afraid that Iowa might win if that were the case). All conferences should have a championship, so the true conference champion can be determined on the field.

Fluk

 

[lostinamerica]

I know for a fact that the Iowa Hawkeyes will receive a trophy identical to the one Ohio State receives (except for the engraving) as one of the 2002 Big Ten Football Co-champions. I suspect (but don't know) that that would have been the case if both teams were 7-1 but one team beat the other, as the Pac-10 race might play out. The tiebreaker merely determines the BCS representative, or in the old days, the Rose Bowl representative.

I can see a logic in treating futures differently in picking a champion of the NFC East and having only one winner determined by the NFL tiebreakers.

While the rules that were in place for your wager will be made clear to you soon enough, if their are two co-champions, all Ohio State and Iowa backers will have a winner on 1/2 of their wager and a loser on 1/2 of their wager.

Hypothetical:
$100 on Iowa(20/1) = ($50 x 20) - $50 = $950.
$100 on Ohio State(5/1) = ($50 x 5) - $50 = $200.

Nice picks so far. GL