[CardinalSagehen]

Here's another angle to this.  Even if we lose on Thursday @ ASU, we still control our own destiny with respect to WASH and WSU and would only need one Oregon loss (presumably to WSU?) to win all the head-to-head and multi-way tie-breakers.  Crazy, right?

That's because both of our losses would be in the South, and everyone else would also have two losses with at least one loss in the North (to us).

EDIT: looking more closely, I see that's essentially muiron was saying above. My bad!

It's a ridiculous hypothetical case, because if we can't beat ASU, then we'll have no business running the table in the North.  And in any case, we are going to WIN this Thurs.  Probably without the Big Island and Bryce.  Right?!

[CardinalSagehen]

Here's another angle to this.  Even if we lose on Thursday @ ASU, we still control our own destiny with respect to WASH and WSU and would only need one Oregon loss (presumably to WSU?) to win all the head-to-head and multi-way tie-breakers.  Crazy, right?

That's because both of our losses would be in the South, and everyone else would also have two losses with at least one loss in the North (to us).

EDIT: looking more closely, I see that's essentially muiron was saying above. My bad!

It's a ridiculous hypothetical case, because if we can't beat ASU, then we'll have no business running the table in the North.  And in any case, we are going to WIN this Thurs.  Probably without the Big Island and Bryce.  Right?!