DTN Roundtable Questions Wanted

by Seth C on Oct 27, 2008 12:00 PM CDT in Texas Tech Football

The DTN authors (see the very bottom of the page) are asking for DTN-user submitted questions for a DTN roundtable later this week. Please feel free to leave a question in the comments section or send an email to roundtable.dtn AT gmail DOT com.

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Because these teams are remarkably similar on offense (high pass, low run) and defense (strong run D, no pass D), which secondary do you trust more and why?

by Jason Roberts on Oct 27, 2008 1:41 PM CDT reply actions

I know this is looking way ahead and all but I have been wondering… If Tech beats UT and OSU but looses to Oklahoma who then beat OSU, UT, Tech and Oklahoma would all have one loss. In this case, who goes to the ship?

by rednader on Oct 27, 2008 2:11 PM CDT reply actions

this is less of a roundtable answer and more of a question that I could answer factually straight up.

UT, TTU, and OU would be in a 3 way tie for first in the south division with each team having beat the team in one direction and lost to the team in the other. The Big XII tiebreaker order:

The records of the three teams will be compared against each other
The records of the three teams will be compared within their division
The records of the three teams will be compared against the next highest placed teams in their division in order of fi nish (4, 5 and 6)
The records of the three teams will be compared against all common conference opponents;
The highest ranked team in the fi rst Bowl Championship Series Poll following the completion of Big 12 regular season conference play shall be the representative
The team with the best overall winning percentage [excluding exempted games] shall be the representative
The representative will be chosen by draw.

1-4 will be identical. #5 is the first major difference. In this one, Oklahoma will have the advantage because they were the first to lose and early losses are less devastating than late losses. If OU, TTU, and UT are somehow tied, then UT would take it because they don’t have a D-1AA on their schedule while OU has 1 and TTU has 2. UT’s winning percentage would be 11/12 while OU’s woudl be 10/11 and TTU’s 9/10.

Also feel free to email any questions to that mail account, i haven’t gotten one emailed yet :(. If it’s a question that i can straight up answer (ie not asking for opinion or speculation), I will do the same as i just did here.

by kayakyakr on Oct 27, 2008 2:53 PM CDT up reply actions

Nice. Thanks man. In other words. We HAVE to win out!

by rednader on Oct 27, 2008 6:10 PM CDT up reply actions

Are the pass defenses in the Big 12 as bad as they look in rankings? Or is this just the side effect of having such good offenses in the conference? If so how would you rank the top 6 teams in conference on total D, run D, and pass D if they were in the SEC?

If you not having fun....then your not playing the game right.

by texastfan on Oct 27, 2008 5:48 PM CDT reply actions

On the lighter side...

Who wins in the “better looking women” contest…Tech or UT? (must have evidence)

by raidman on Oct 27, 2008 6:03 PM CDT reply actions

That’s a tough one. They have more students, so there are more hotties down there. But…I think most people would say Tech scores VERY high on the turbo-hot chick scale.

by Tech92 on Oct 27, 2008 7:22 PM CDT up reply actions