This has to hurt Rutgers in bracketology. They were in good shape with NET, but this was a bad loss.
Rutgers loses to 1-16 Minn in B1G last night.
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I’m starting to think the q1/q2 losses don’t matter at all, only the wins. The losses help your SOS and avoid any opportunity to have a bad loss.
Goes to show. Sh!t happens. Everyone has good players. Even the bad teams like Minnesota and Notre Dame. Sometimes they put it together.
I love it. My hatred for the Snake University of New Jersey is up there with my hatred for the Pennsylvania Snake University.
I don't know that they don't matter at all, for instance if you are like North Carolina and you are 1-8 in Q1 that probably hurts at least a little, because the committee is looking at that and wondering if they can beat good teams or not. So I think in the aggregate they do matter at least a little. You have to win some of them. But I would agree that if you are just looking at one particular result, no, losing a game to a Q1 does not hurt you.
And really, why should it? I mean set aside for a second that I, and many others, think that the Qs aren't broken up correctly. Just focus on the fact that Q1 games are games against the toughest opponents. Should losing a game to a tough opponent knock you down? Well certainly not if the committee wants to encourage teams to play tough opponents, which they absolutely do. If you start telling teams that losing a game to one of the best teams in country is going to hurt your chances, you start telling teams to stop scheduling games like that. Which no one wants.
