Should OSU Be Penalized for Its QB Situation?

100% agree. Injuries should not be taken into account. Backups are part of the team.

Marcus Outzen

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I've been saying this. The fact that they can potentially win the Big Ten with their 3rd string QB, after losing 2 Heisman caliber QBs, shows how strong of a team it is (offense at least, defense blows).

I understand the argument. I compare it to the Arizona Cardinals situation. Were the Cardinals a top 4 team with Palmer as QB? Quite possibly. Are the Cardinals a top 4 team with Stanton as QB? Hell no.

This weekend should clear things up a bunch, though.

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For the same reason that Cincinnati was penalized when Kenyon Martin was injured for the year.

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that's fricking stupid, too

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Losing a Heisman candidate to injury is bad news

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perhaps. the results on the field should tell that story if it's true

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Is OSU one of the 4 best teams without their top 2 QBs?

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that's irrelevant. if you want this standard, then you have to take whatever window they played without their top 2 QBs and apply that to everyone else. so we will judge the playoff entrants based off of half of last week and this week.

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I actually don't know how to answer though..tricky situation.

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it's not tricky at all

you look at the data presented. analyze the data and put in teh 4 teams with the best data from their resume

end of story. you shouldn't even be looking at individual players

Of course, if you penalize teams for winning ugly in spite of poor QB play, then FSU should have dropped out of the top 10.

you may find this interesting, or useless and boring as hell....

There is some irony to this potential situation. Prior to the 1975 season only the Big Ten champion could go to a bowl and that bowl was the Rose Bowl. Until 1971 it was even more primitive that even with a conference title if you went to the Rose Bowl the prior year,you couldn't repeat. Hence Purdue in the 1967 Rose Bowl instead of Michigan State.

In 1973 10-0 #1 Ohio State met #4 10-0 Michigan in Ann Arbor. Winner goes to Pasadena, loser stays home. Game ends in 10-10 tie. There is no tie-breaker provision in the Big 10. Late in the game, Michigan QB Dennis Franklin suffers a broken collarbone and his health for Jan 1 is suspect.

The procedure to determine the representative was for the 10 ADs to meet in Chicago. Commissioner Wayne Duke reported Franklin's condition and indicated his services were unknown. For a variety of reasons,including Franklin's questionable situation, Ohio State was selected by a 6-4 vote and went to Pasadena (where they did beat Southern Cal, 42-21).

If you get the Big 10 Network they did a feature on this called "Tiebreaker" or some such thing.

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SlowFlowPro

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So at what point do you draw the line? What if a van full of team players crashes, and they lose their starting RB, WRs, QB, and MLB to injury. At what point is a team penalized for losing the players that are responsible for their wins?