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If Stanford loses Love, not only will the Cardinal's conference title hopes vanish, Stanford will be an even more unattractive bowl invite (assuming bowl eligibility).  Heaven forbid.

Beyond that kind of injury to an impact player . . . no one (other than affected team and its fans) cares. 

P.S. On another thread:  Stanford has no chance at CFP.  But here's a more legit question:  is some NY6 Bowl required to take the Pac champion?  I don't think so, and I could readily see a scenario whereby Pac 12 champion Stanford gets left out (even with a healthy Love).  Specifically, beat all conference foes (except WSU, who loses to UW), lose to ND, win CCG.  That would make Stanford 9-4, and not very attractive to NY6 bowl hosts.  Hell, a 10-3 Stanford team that beats ND might also get shutout.

Sheesh teejers, is there no bound to your pessimism?  I mean you could have looked it up and saved others from considering your dumb proposition.  The Wikipedia page explains:

Twelve schools are selected for the major bowls. These include the champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Pac-12 Conference and Southeastern Conference. The highest-ranked champion from the "Group of Five" conferences (American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, and Sun Belt) is guaranteed a berth if the group's top team is not in the playoff.

It’s one thing to be pessimistic about stuff that we don’t know the answer to, but it takes a whole new level of wet noodleism to be pessimistic about stuff that’s demonstrably false.  So, yeah, it is conceivable that a 7-5 team that lost all three of its non-conference games, made the conference title as a two-loss team, and then scored an upset to claim the conference championship would make a New Years six game.

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If Stanford loses Love, not only will the Cardinal's conference title hopes vanish, Stanford will be an even more unattractive bowl invite (assuming bowl eligibility).  Heaven forbid.

Beyond that kind of injury to an impact player . . . no one (other than affected team and its fans) cares. 

P.S. On another thread:  Stanford has no chance at CFP.  But here's a more legit question:  is some NY6 Bowl required to take the Pac champion?  I don't think so, and I could readily see a scenario whereby Pac 12 champion Stanford gets left out (even with a healthy Love).  Specifically, beat all conference foes (except WSU, who loses to UW), lose to ND, win CCG.  That would make Stanford 9-4, and not very attractive to NY6 bowl hosts.  Hell, a 10-3 Stanford team that beats ND might also get shutout.

Sheesh teejers, is there no bound to your pessimism?  I mean you could have looked it up and saved others from considering your dumb proposition.  The Wikipedia page explains:

Twelve schools are selected for the major bowls. These include the champions of the Atlantic Coast Conference, the Big Ten Conference, Big 12 Conference, Pac-12 Conference and Southeastern Conference. The highest-ranked champion from the "Group of Five" conferences (American Athletic Conference, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, and Sun Belt) is guaranteed a berth if the group's top team is not in the playoff.

It’s one thing to be pessimistic about stuff that we don’t know the answer to, but it takes a whole new level of wet noodleism to be pessimistic about stuff that’s demonstrably false.  So, yeah, it is conceivable that a 7-5 team that lost all three of its non-conference games, made the conference title as a two-loss team, and then scored an upset to claim the conference championship would make a New Years six game.

BC