[HisKneeWasDown]

[quote author=French Rage link=topic=15711.msg173002#msg173002 date=1474782099]
UW better win this.  We need one highly ranked opponent when we play them this year and we're starting to run out of candidates.

Why?  We don't need anything other than to win our games.  Chances are we would play a ranked team in the Pac-12 championship anyways.  But nobody is going to ding us for our strength of schedule when we play 9 conference games and (hopefully) a conference championship, and schedule Votre Dame and a Power-5 team as OOC teams.

BC
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Why? the answer is simple: East Coast Bias.

Playoff committee needs to find a excuse to leave one conference out of the final four. SOS is a no-brainer. "Look at all those 3-loss teams Stanford played".

[HisKneeWasDown]

[quote author=French Rage link=topic=15711.msg173002#msg173002 date=1474782099]
UW better win this.  We need one highly ranked opponent when we play them this year and we're starting to run out of candidates.

Why?  We don't need anything other than to win our games.  Chances are we would play a ranked team in the Pac-12 championship anyways.  But nobody is going to ding us for our strength of schedule when we play 9 conference games and (hopefully) a conference championship, and schedule Votre Dame and a Power-5 team as OOC teams.

BC
[/quote]

Why? the answer is simple: East Coast Bias.

Playoff committee needs to find a excuse to leave one conference out of the final four. SOS is a no-brainer. "Look at all those 3-loss teams Stanford played".