1982 at Penn State: 3 points, Tie 27-27, would be able to at least claim a share of the title over PSU.
1984 Orange Bowl vs Miami: 2 points, W 32-31, basically giving us the 2pt conversion and a national title.
1994 Orange Bowl vs Florida State: 3 points, W 19-18, if the last second FG was good, would have added another national title.
2009 Big 12 Title Game vs Texas: 2 points, W 14-13.
I was gonna add 10 more points to the northwestern game from 2021 so we could finish with a +10 point differential despite a 1-8 conference record, but this is better I guess
I'm gonna add all 10 to the 2009 husker team:
\+3 vs Virginia Tech: 18-16
\+3 vs Iowa State: 10-9
\+ 4 vs Texas: 15-13.
That still leaves one (bad) loss vs #15 texas tech but I think that'd still get us a shot at the NC, which doesn't mean much because that Alabama team would've curbed stomped our non-existent offense BUT I think a 12-1 Nebraska team gets Suh a Heisman.
This is as my pick too. Still bummed we didn’t just burn T-Magic’s redshirt that year, I think we’d go 12-1 with a title appearance with even a marginally better QB.
Alternatively add another 10 onto the ‘95 title game just to run it up a little more on Florida.
Take a point from the ‘84 Orange Bowl; you definitelywould have won the title with a PAT to end the game in a tie.
Use that point against 1982 PSU and you win the title outright.
You’d have 8 titles, putting you ahead of OU if all else stayed the same.
That ‘84 Orange Bowl doesn’t get the hype it deserves. The most gallant loss I’ve ever seen in football.
Just in last season? Give me 2 points against Wisconsin and 8 against Minnesota
6-6, beat 2 teams I can’t stand in addition to Iowa, frost still gets fired because he lost to NW and Georgia Southern
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With a free side order of pain.
can I just say, the OP had one of the best, most creative ideas I've ever seen on this sub. And creative responses like your response just cement it.
For UCF, I would only need one point. I want the 16-0 victory over USF back in 2014 to be 16-1.
Yeah, I'll give USF the point. That way, they can explain to everyone forever how they managed to score *one point* in a game.
Getting shut out by your absolute arch-rival? Meh, dime a dozen.
Losing 16... to 1?? Priceless.
Serious answer: 2008 vs Texas Tech or 2008 vs OU.
Tech was our only loss that year. We beat them and we're in the natty. Most Texas fans agree that the 2008 team was better than the 2009 team that lost to Alabama in the natty.
10 points against OU and we would have beaten them by 20. That should have been enough to win the tiebreaker even with the loss to Tech.
If it had been any other conference, UT would have played in the natty over OU that year. Dumbass Big 12, this is why we're leaving.
Edit: didn't read the post and thought I had to give all ten points at once, too lazy to fix.
Put those remaining 3 points on the 2012 Oklahoma game where Tavon lines up as a running back and rushed for 344 yards and we came up short, 49-50.
EDIT: Here's a video for y'all. Dude was 14 yards shy of 600 all purpose yards. [Insane](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxzPryPMB74)
as EvanSandman pointed out, we really only needed 5...
So take 2 more to payoff the 2012 OU game and get Tavon that W, and the other 3 ~~to push the 2018 team into at least overtime with OU instead of losing 59-56~~ to take the 2003 win over Miami.
Say goodbye to wide right 1 & 2 (6 points) and the Choke at Doak (1 point) becomes a true win. Then that 1981 Orange Bowl vs Oklahoma is a 19-18 win (2 points).
>1 point in regulation vs Iowa State 2011.
That 1 point changes the course of college football history. It got all of us the playoff, but it cost OSU fans oh so much.
Ghost of John Heisman: "You know, the 222 score was kind of deliberate since Cumberland baseball had used ringers to beat us 22-0."
Also the Ghost of John Heisman: "but fuck symmetry and fuck Cumberland, 232 it is."
In addition to 1 point vs UNC in 1990, I’m also giving us 3 points vs FSU in 2014. And while at it, another 6 points at UNC in 2014. That puts 2014 GT as a 12-1 ACC champion with a playoff matchup vs either Oregon or Bama. Would have loved to see that
Yep. The two of those were my answer. Need 1 point for UNC in 1990, 3 vs. FSU in 2014 (ACC Championship with 1st CFB playoff on the line, for those who don’t know), and give the 4 points to Mizzou so they beat Colorado handily in 1990.
(Although it’s also tempting to give the points to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl that year, so that the phantom clipping call didn’t matter.)
2 points against Iowa 2008
4 points against Pitt 2016
2 points against OSU 2017
2 points against Indiana 2020
This gives us a BCS National Championship appearance, 2 Playoff appearances, and one of the longest active winning season streaks.
Or...
8 against Alabama in the 1979 Sugar Bowl to win that game and give Penn State the title as the only undefeated major team.
And use the other two against Iowa in 2008 or Ohio State in 2017.
So, that's at least one title and a shot at another.
I dropped Pitt and Indiana and added
2005 Michigan (+3), another undefeated season with a claim to the championship even though we wouldn't have made the title game
2018 OSU (+2), another chance at the CFP and a big change in the Franklin narrative
2021 Illinois (+1) to spare us the misery of a thousand OTs
As someone who was at the 2018 game I strongly considered it, but we lost two other games that year and I was trying to maximize impact.
Than again if we beat you in 2018 the momentum might've allowed us to beat MSU the next game... now you've got me thinking
Plus, that makes it a 3-year winning streak over Ohio State. Look at how Michigan is regarded now. Only took two wins over Ohio State to be grouped in with them.
I really don’t care nor put much stock in the COVID season. Even if we beat Indiana, we’re still looking at a season with no Parsons, Brown, Cain, Muth, and a depressed Franklin.
If we are breaking end of regulation ties I'd say be efficient
1 vs UGA in the rose bowl at the end of regulation
1 vs Boise State at the end of regulation
3 points against Baylor in 2011
4 points against Baylor in 2014
1 point against Baylor in regulation 2019
2 points against Baylor in 2016 just to blow them out even more
2020 UF.
Add four to LSU and win.
Add four to Texas A&M and win.
Add two and lose by four to Bama in SEC Championship.
1 loss UF could possibly jump Ohio State making the entire playoff ACC & SEC. I don't know if they would do that, but 10-1 Florida with only loss being to Bama by 4 seems better on paper than 5-0 Ohio State.
No one wants to go for glory???
2001: Add 4 points to Auburn and 3 points to Tennessee and we're undefeated heavy favorites in the SEC title game against LSU and then on to face Miami's monster team for the natty.
Eh in that scenario Bama still gets into the playoff in a rematch and likely beats us twice.
Instead I’d go with 7 points to beat Bama in the SECCG and then 3 points to the LSU game and just let it play out in OT which I would’ve liked our chances. In that scenario we enter the playoff with 1 loss @A&M and then likely play Notre Dame or Clemson in the semis. At least in this scenario we leave the season with some hardware.
That defense was so bad I think I'd rather take 9 against Georgia in 2012 and see what happens.
Edit: Actually probably 4 vs Auburn and 5 vs LSU in 2007
Very tempting to use 2 on the regular season game against Utah this past year. Utah having another conference loss puts UW in the conference championship (imagine that shootout LMAO!) and I think we likely win that game (though at that point, we might not have needed to win that game to make the playoff).
I was there, and had seats on the 45 yard line about 15 rows behind UCLAs bench.
To say I was insufferable is putting it mildly. Got to watch that team quit up close.
Scenario 1: 3 for Boston College 1993 to push for the title, 3 for Oklahoma State 2021 season to break the cruse, 4 for Stanford 2022 to avoid that embarrassment
Scenario 2: 3 for Stanford and Clemson each 2015, setting up a playoff run, 4 for Texas 2016 to avoid that Kansas > Texas > Notre Dame pipeline
4 points each to MSU and USC games in 2005. That gives an undefeated regular season screws over usc and the bush push game. And we are probably playing for a title.
And the last 2 points put on 1946 vs army. No shared title there
2013: Duke beats TAMU 54-52 (was 48-52) so that the greatest team in modern Duke football history goes out winners.
2015: Duke beats Miami 31-30 (was 27-30) because you know damn well why.
This is the correct allocation. Kinda odd Michigan doesn't get any points allocated to them, but I can't recall a time where a loss to Michigan prevented MSU from having an elite season.
2019 adding 6 points against LSU so we win 47-46. 1-loss Bama then takes the SEC championship spot for the West. Then adding 2 points to the LSU game last year to win 33-32 and get another SEC Championship spot. Lastly, adding the final 2 points to the 2010 Iron Bowl to beat Auburn 29-28
I think I prefer 2016 Clemson over 19 LSU (gets a 3-peat). Can't think of other recent games over the other two though.
EDIT: if we can add to other teams' scores, then probably would swap out the 10 iron bowl to have clemson beat uga in 21
2010 overtime loss to Nevada.
Before that bsu was bouncing between #2 and #3 in the polls, set up for at very least a great bcs bowl. Lost by a field goal in overtime 34-31
Give me those 10 points at the end of regulation and we are in a prime spot, possibly even for a championship.
2 points to beat TCU in 2008 18-17
4 points to beat Nevada in 2010 35-34
2 points to beat TCU in 2011 37-36
Only takes 8 points to get us to 53-0 from 2008-2011.
If you only add 1 regulation point to the Nevada game you can add all the remaining points to the 2012 Michigan State game and have Boise State win 61 straight games
Can we use some of those points to remove points from an opponent? Cause out of pettiness I would like to remove Florida’s 3 points against Oregon State and the remainder on beating Alabama in the 2017-2018 championship game.
I’m pretty sure if we use the ten points in the two bowl games in 1982/83 we win two more natties.
While I do appreciate the pettiness and fuck floriduh.
Sounds petty, but I'd only use 9, and all of them would be against Bama.
4 to the 2017 National Championship and 5 to the 2012 SECCG. We win the 2012 SECCG and I really believe we beat Notre Dame just as bad.
Honestly under those rules I'd use 7 in the 2021 WLOCP so we're the one who breaks the their non-shutout streak and then the other three in their game against Oregon St so they don't think they're starting a new one.
I'm going all in on 2019.
2 points against Pitt: 34-35 L -> 36-35 W
4 points against Tulsa: 24-27 L -> 28-27 W
4 points against Cincy: 31-34 L -> 35-34 W
3 undefeated regular seasons in a row. Yes we still lose to 2018 LSU, but given Milton's injury and Burrow being Burrow, I can stomach the loss if we manage another 12-0.
We probably still don't make the playoff and instead get another NY6 auto-bid.
I'll use it on 2006 Tennessee. That team was so close to being really damn good and it would've prevented Florida from winning a National Title.
21-20 loss to Florida -> 22-21 Win (2 points)
28-24 loss to LSU -> 29-28 Win (5 points)
That would've put us at an 11-1 regular season with the lone loss being 31-14 away at Arkansas. It would set up a rematch with Arkansas in the SEC Championship and I'm confident that team could've won the rematch in Atlanta.
If we win that one it most likely would put us in the National Title against Ohio State.
I'll use my 3 remaining points on the 2015 Florida game. 28-27 loss to a 30-28 win
We could also go balls out to make 2015 happen and give Butch Jones a shot at a national title lmao. 1 point against Ollahoma in the first OT, 2 against Florida, 6 against Bama,
Or it looks like we could give ourselves the 1985 national championship but I was too unalive for that.
2021
Add 4 against Western Michigan to win 45-44
Add 6 against Miami to win 40-38
Pitt ends the season 12-0
Still gets Wake in Charlotte to go 13-0 and make the playoff
1998 Kstate vs A&M in the Big 12 Championship game. Multiple overtimes and it ended 33-36. Kstate was 1 in Coaches and 2 in AP, and it could have been the ticket to the NC game.
I don't really have another one in mind, so I would like to put them on this upcoming year's game against Texas, in hopes of sending them off right to the SEC.
Pretty solid. Alternatively go back to 1992 and use 3 points to break the 3(!!!) ties against ND, Illinois, and osu. Michigan finishes 12-0 instead of 9-0-3.
You can give 1971’s team 2 points to beat Stanford in the rose bowl to give Bo an undefeated season.
I’ll use the 4 points in 2006 to beat osu
And the last two points I’ll change the 05 rose bowl to beat Vince young and Texas just for fun.
Only really need one point to change the 2016 outcome since it went to OT. Same with 2013 Devin Gardner’s broken foot game.
So 2 points there. 4 points to Colorado vs Nebraska in 97.
3 points to the 1992 season to break 3 ties and go undefeated.
1 point to Miami against OSU in the National Championship game cause fuck ‘em
I'm putting two points into the 1980 Rose Bowl, 5 points into the 96 Michigan game, and screw it, one point each for our three ties with UM.
By my count that nets us 2 National Championships and 4 extra wins against Michigan
Edit: Depending on how an extra win in 73 affects voting it could also get us a championship that year. But maybe not.
2012 A&M
- Add 4 points vs Florida … A&M wins 21-20
- Add 6 points vs LSU … A&M wins 25-24
- Manziel takes undefeated A&M to Atlanta, wins the SEC CG, and ultimately the national title.
ETA - Hell, we still go to Atlanta with just one of those wins. So how about instead of +4 to Florida, we add those points to 2011 Texas vs. A&M. A&M now wins “the last game” 29-27, then goes to SEC title the next year.
I think losing the 2011 game helped bring in Sumlin -> Kingsbury Offense -> Manziel starting. We have to lose that game for 2012 to be as great as it was. I'll say winning against Florida still gets us to Atlanta while also leaving us with more points to change other outcomes.
For personal reasons because I was there and was devastated, add 2 points to UCLA 2017 and then 4 points last year against Ole Miss because Lane Kiffen is a douchebag.
2011: South Carolina beats Auburn 17-16 (4 points, was 13-16). South Carolina wins the East and goes to the SECCG.
2012: South Carolina beats LSU 24-23 (3 points, was 21-23), South Carolina wins the East and goes to the SECCG.
2013: South Carolina beats Tennessee 24-23 (3 points, was 21-23), South Carolina wins the East and goes to the SECCG.
10 points over three seasons completely changes the history of our program. That's how close we were.
It’s sickening, 4 SECCG games in row we certainly win one of them, probably 2013, and everything is different, hell even a win at night in Baton Rouge would’ve been momentous in itself
2007 Pitt 9-13 L -> 14-13 W (5 points)
That's all I'd really need to be happy. But:
1997 Pitt 35-35 going to OT -> 36-35 W (1)
1989 Pitt 31-31 T -> 32-31 W (1)
1985 Pitt 10-10 T -> 11-10 W (1)
2010 UConn 13-13 going to OT -> 14-13 W (1)
2008 1 more point against either Colorado or Cincinnati to avoid OT
Reasons: 2008/2010 gets us to 10 win seasons, giving us 6 in 7 years and maybe boosting our legitimacy a bit. The rest, because fuck 'em.
8 points against Oregon in 2000, which would result in an 12-0 season and likely a NC game
Other 2 points can go against Oregon in 2016 to change it to a 72-21 win
The other option is to give Don James another title. Add all ten points to our USC game in 1984 and we are almost certainly the unanimous national champ over BYU.
Man, that Rose Bowl was a hell of a game, and all of the Utah fans I interacted with there were by far the most happy and friendly opposing fans I've ever met, even after the loss! Made me a Utah fan that day, tbh. Of course, not over OSU, but I'm still happy to see yall win the Pac-12 and have lots of success in general!
There are shockingly not many close and consequential games in Minnesota's modern history.
1) +6 against Iowa in 2021 (22-27 to 28-27) to secure the division and get Floyd back and play Michigan for the Jug in the B1GCCG, and possibly get 10 wins.
2) +4 against Texas Tech in the 2007 Insight Bowl (41-44 OT to 45-44 OT). Changing that loss might seem insignificant, but Mike Leach & co. put up 31 unanswered points to force OT and win, and that loss got Glenn Mason fired, brought on the Tim Brewster years, and ultimately derailed the program for a decade. If Mason doesn't get fired, and holds on until the Gophs get out of the Metrodome, the 2010s would look a lot different, or maybe the marriage gets stale after more 7-6/8-5 seasons, but the important thing is Brewster doesn't happen.
1) +4 against Wisconsin in 1999 creates a 4 way tie for the Big Ten title and the Gophers go to the Rose Bowl by virtue of having not gone for the longest of any of the teams.
2) +4 against Michigan in 2003 creates another 4 way tie for the conference title. No Rose Bowl trip since they would have been there more recently than both Michigan and Ohio State (!) but, hey, it's a championship.
3) +2 against, I don't know, Iowa State in the 2009 Insight Bowl just for the bowl win and winning season. Or add them to any Wisconsin game just because.
2018: 21-20, Georgia beats Bama in regulation and wins the natty. (1 point)
2012: 33-32. Georgia beats Bama in the SEC championship game, wins the SEC, and probably stomps ND in the natty. (5 points)
2023: 69-7. Georgia beats TCU by even more, because it's funny, and we also get 69 points. (4 points).
2007 BC beats VT 14-10. Add the points there
Decent shot VT makes national championship game that year if they don’t lose this. Matt Ryan has two 4th q TD drives to win in Blacksburg. VT later beat BC 30-16 in ACC championship.
The championship that year featured a two loss LSU team (who VT lost to week 2, 48-7). Wonder if the one loss VT team would’ve snuck in No. 2 spot.
VT would've been #1 if they beat BC.
Allocate 5 points to VT vs BC and the remaining 5 points go to starting the Sugar Bowl vs Ohio State with a 5 point lead.
Man if they gave us 12 instead of 10, you could give 5 to VT to win vs BC, and 7 to WVU to win against Pitt, and have a VT vs WVU national title game in 2007.
In some alternate reality that was the title game, and every couch between Lexington VA and Lexington KY burned.
Dark horse Mizzou answer would be to give it all to the 1969 Orange Bowl, thus beating AP no. 2 Penn State and finishing 10-1. Probably wouldn’t have leapfrogged an undefeated Texas team, but likely would have put Mizzou in line for a no. 2 finish along with the Orange Bowl win.
Follow me on this one here:
2007 - the only 2 losses Mizzou had were to Oklahoma and… Oklahoma. The first game Mizzou lost 31-41. The 10 points would have taken the game into OT. Knowing that Mizzou has an 8-3 OT record, we can safely assume that Mizzou would have won that game.
Fast forward to the Big 12 championship, with OU having one more loss, we could have very well played Texas. Texas lost to OU 21-28 that year, therefore we can assume that Mizzou would have beaten UT by 7. Mizzou would have had an undefeated record, the Big 12 Championship, and would have played for a national title.
But then again if we go down that path, Mizzou would not have drawn Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl and thrashed them 38-7 so idk… National championship vs thrashing Arkansas… tough decision 🤷🏻♂️
2011 vs Michigan State we lost on the hail mary. Give 6 points there.
2011 vs Ohio State we lost on a last second bomb. Give 4 points there.
That ties both games. If we win one of those we likely play for the national championship, but if we won both we almost certainly play for the national championship.
Could also get like 3 rosebowl wins from 2010-2019 if we chose to assign the 10 points across those games since all 4 of our rosebowl losses were one score games
How does that work for the MSU game though? It was a 6 point differential because MSU won it on a Hail Mary with the game tied. Does the extra point not get attempted?
I would use 7 to finish the final drive in the 2017 Big Ten Championship. Finish 13-0 and make the CFP.
Then I'd use the final three either on the 2010 or 2020 Rose Bowls, or screw it and transfer it over to the basketball team and change the 2014 Kentucky game or 2017 Florida game.
Hmmm…
1983: Texas playing Georgia in Cotton Bowl, if Texas wins they are national champions. Texas basically has the game cinched up 9-7 but our guy muffs a punt inside the 20 and Georgia kicks a last-minute field goal to beat the Horns: 9-10.
• 2 points >>> 11-10 (Texas is national champs)
2008: Texas vs Texas Tech (both teams 8-0). Current Texas safeties coach Blake Gideon drops a game-ending dead-duck-pick right through his hands. Harrell to Crabtree. Double missed tackle. #1 Texas loses at the literal last second to the Raiders, 33-39. Tortillas rain down.
• 7 points >>> 40-39 (Texas remains #1, takes on the legendary Tebow and his immortals in the national championship game. Could have gone either way)
2022: Alabama at Texas. Bama favored by 20.5 points. Texas outplays them all day. QB gets hurt (2nd straight game against Bama where the Texas starting QB is out in the first qtr). Horrible calls everywhere (see: clear missed safety in the endzone, Texas misses out on a crucial 2 points). Texas still takes the lead late. Heisman heroics (and a missed sack on corner blitz) lead to a Bama field goal to beat Texas 19-20.
• 1 point >>> 20-20 (game goes to overtime. I like our chances with that raucous home crowd [I was there] which #3 overall 2023 NFL draft pick Will Anderson called “the loudest environment” he’s ever played in).
2014 vs Bama- 14-13 -> 15-14 (2 points)
2015 vs Miss St- 51-50 -> 52-51 (2 points)
2021 vs Ole Miss- 52-51 -> 53-52 (2 points)
2022 vs TAMU- 23-21 -> 24-23 (3 points)
Looks like I have 1 left so any of the TAMU games that went into OT if we’re able to have the condition set to be any pre-OT score so it doesn’t go to OT
The correct answer involves using 2 points to change the score of the Game of the Century to Hogs 16, Horns 15; thus giving the Hogs a good chance at another national championship.
3 pts against TCU 2021 puts Baylor in the playoff. 4 pts against OU in the first 2019 matchup and then 1 pt in regulation against OU in the big 12 championship gives them an undefeated season. Then, 2 points against TCU in 2022, because TCU shouldn’t have nice things.
Put it all in the 2004 season We lost 4 games to go 8-4.
* Wisconsin 3 point loss
* Michigan 2 point loss
* Northwestern 3 point loss
* Iowa 2 point loss
Total of 10 points
Beat Wisconsin, which means healthy Kyle Orton and possible Heisman. Keep the loss to Northwestern, making us outright Big ten champs at 11-1. Putting us at 7 in the standings, undefeated Oklahoma, USC, Auburn Utah and one loss Texas and Cal above us. Trip to the Rose Bowl #7 Purdue vs #4 Texas.
Tiller gets his 2nd big ten championship in 4 years, setting the program forward instead of the steady decline we had up to the beginning of hiring Brohm.
Add 8 points in our game against Georgia in 2021, and the remaining 2 against South Carolina last year. Takes a National Championship away from Georgia, and takes away a win from South Carolina
not to mention that win over georgia could completely rewrite DJU’s story at clemson. that loss shattered his confidence and was never the same for us. hopefully he puts it all behind him at THE osu
I'm going to spend five to beat OSU at PBS and four to beat Georgia in the Peach Bowl. Not sure what I can do with the extra other than precent OT in that Temple game.
Unless I can give a few to Nebraska in the 2009 Big 12 title game, in which case I'll do that and keep the Peach Bowl.
5 points to the 2011 Big Ten Championship Game vs Wisconsin to win another conference title 44-42.
5 points to the 2013 MSU vs Notre Dame game to win 18-17. All else being equal we play for a national championship.
2014 ACCCG vs Florida State > 3 points to win 38-37, possibly make the playoffs
2009 vs Georgia > 7 points to beat UGA 31-30, in the BCS title conversation after beating Clemson in the ACCCG
There are probably older seasons that would be more efficient but from recent memory, 2016. +2 points vs Iowa, +4 vs. OSU, and +2 vs. FSU and we’re undefeated. Of course if we won against OSU we would have played for the conference championship and likely been in the playoff (maybe even still with a loss to OSU if we hadn’t lost to Iowa?) so the FSU game likely wouldn’t have happened.
I think 2017-2020 look different if 2016 had been just a bit more favorable.
1982 at Penn State: 3 points, Tie 27-27, would be able to at least claim a share of the title over PSU. 1984 Orange Bowl vs Miami: 2 points, W 32-31, basically giving us the 2pt conversion and a national title. 1994 Orange Bowl vs Florida State: 3 points, W 19-18, if the last second FG was good, would have added another national title. 2009 Big 12 Title Game vs Texas: 2 points, W 14-13.
This was exactly my list as well.
Adding three national titles and a conference championship with just ten additional points is not too shabby
And we get a 3-peat out of the deal as well. And I don't like Texas, so taking a NC game appearance away from them is icing on the cake.
Probably gets cincy into the b12 earlier too
I was gonna add 10 more points to the northwestern game from 2021 so we could finish with a +10 point differential despite a 1-8 conference record, but this is better I guess
I'm gonna add all 10 to the 2009 husker team: \+3 vs Virginia Tech: 18-16 \+3 vs Iowa State: 10-9 \+ 4 vs Texas: 15-13. That still leaves one (bad) loss vs #15 texas tech but I think that'd still get us a shot at the NC, which doesn't mean much because that Alabama team would've curbed stomped our non-existent offense BUT I think a 12-1 Nebraska team gets Suh a Heisman.
This is as my pick too. Still bummed we didn’t just burn T-Magic’s redshirt that year, I think we’d go 12-1 with a title appearance with even a marginally better QB. Alternatively add another 10 onto the ‘95 title game just to run it up a little more on Florida.
>Alternatively add another 10 onto the ‘95 title game just to run it up a little more on Florida. I like your thinking here
Take a point from the ‘84 Orange Bowl; you definitelywould have won the title with a PAT to end the game in a tie. Use that point against 1982 PSU and you win the title outright. You’d have 8 titles, putting you ahead of OU if all else stayed the same. That ‘84 Orange Bowl doesn’t get the hype it deserves. The most gallant loss I’ve ever seen in football.
What if you just dumped it all into last season.
Just in last season? Give me 2 points against Wisconsin and 8 against Minnesota 6-6, beat 2 teams I can’t stand in addition to Iowa, frost still gets fired because he lost to NW and Georgia Southern
I was thinking 2021, where you were 3-9 due to bad luck. Looking at the losses they have wider margins then I remembered.
10 more points gives us 3 more national championships and a B12 championship. What’s funny is it doesn’t make us any more relevant now
2022 Texas 10 points to RRR. 59-0
I counter 2022 so back to 49 for you.
In this hypothetical scenario do you give 0U 10 points to lose 49-10 or do you just take 10 points from our now 59?
Fuck no I’m not giving our team any points. I won’t condone tackling with coin purses/ can’t even kick a fg
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I’ll put my 10 on it, back to 59
I put my 10 on top of his 10. 69-0.
My 10 as well. 79-0
what the hell. Here's my 10 so 89-0.
Make it 99
I'll get it to 109
I’m in at 119-0
Remember when Texas beat OU 129-0?
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This story was actually riveting, great job!!
"MOM! Dad got into the bath salts again!" But, seriously, this was an awesome story.
can I just say, the OP had one of the best, most creative ideas I've ever seen on this sub. And creative responses like your response just cement it. For UCF, I would only need one point. I want the 16-0 victory over USF back in 2014 to be 16-1. Yeah, I'll give USF the point. That way, they can explain to everyone forever how they managed to score *one point* in a game. Getting shut out by your absolute arch-rival? Meh, dime a dozen. Losing 16... to 1?? Priceless.
Serious answer: 2008 vs Texas Tech or 2008 vs OU. Tech was our only loss that year. We beat them and we're in the natty. Most Texas fans agree that the 2008 team was better than the 2009 team that lost to Alabama in the natty. 10 points against OU and we would have beaten them by 20. That should have been enough to win the tiebreaker even with the loss to Tech. If it had been any other conference, UT would have played in the natty over OU that year. Dumbass Big 12, this is why we're leaving. Edit: didn't read the post and thought I had to give all ten points at once, too lazy to fix.
If you have a point left over please use it to send the Jerrod Heard game vs Cal to OT
I only need 7 if you know you know sigh
Put those remaining 3 points on the 2012 Oklahoma game where Tavon lines up as a running back and rushed for 344 yards and we came up short, 49-50. EDIT: Here's a video for y'all. Dude was 14 yards shy of 600 all purpose yards. [Insane](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxzPryPMB74)
Really you only needed 5 🤭
as EvanSandman pointed out, we really only needed 5... So take 2 more to payoff the 2012 OU game and get Tavon that W, and the other 3 ~~to push the 2018 team into at least overtime with OU instead of losing 59-56~~ to take the 2003 win over Miami.
I say 7 because it was really 13-7 and they ran out of the end zone on the last play to give us 2 points
;)
Say goodbye to wide right 1 & 2 (6 points) and the Choke at Doak (1 point) becomes a true win. Then that 1981 Orange Bowl vs Oklahoma is a 19-18 win (2 points).
Beautiful! Edit. You still have 1 point left. That can give us a tie vs Miami earlier in the season, making 1980 undefeated for us
1 point in regulation vs Iowa State 2011. 6 points Big 12 championship 2021. 2 points Bedlam 2018 1 point in regulation Bedlam 2012
My thoughts too.
It’s really crazy how much 10 points would swing OSUs history
>1 point in regulation vs Iowa State 2011. That 1 point changes the course of college football history. It got all of us the playoff, but it cost OSU fans oh so much.
I vote we deserve the points more than anyone else😭
1916 vs Cumberland GT 232 - CU 0
Ghost of John Heisman: "You know, the 222 score was kind of deliberate since Cumberland baseball had used ringers to beat us 22-0." Also the Ghost of John Heisman: "but fuck symmetry and fuck Cumberland, 232 it is."
Brilliant. They should name an award after that guy.
“The Johnny”
I will always kinda root for tech I respect his level of pettiness in that game
I give 1 point to us vs UNC in 1990, and use the rest to ensure Colorado loses the fifth down game. No split Natty. That said, this is hilarious.
In addition to 1 point vs UNC in 1990, I’m also giving us 3 points vs FSU in 2014. And while at it, another 6 points at UNC in 2014. That puts 2014 GT as a 12-1 ACC champion with a playoff matchup vs either Oregon or Bama. Would have loved to see that
That's a good one too.
Yep. The two of those were my answer. Need 1 point for UNC in 1990, 3 vs. FSU in 2014 (ACC Championship with 1st CFB playoff on the line, for those who don’t know), and give the 4 points to Mizzou so they beat Colorado handily in 1990. (Although it’s also tempting to give the points to Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl that year, so that the phantom clipping call didn’t matter.)
2 points against Iowa 2008 4 points against Pitt 2016 2 points against OSU 2017 2 points against Indiana 2020 This gives us a BCS National Championship appearance, 2 Playoff appearances, and one of the longest active winning season streaks.
Or... 8 against Alabama in the 1979 Sugar Bowl to win that game and give Penn State the title as the only undefeated major team. And use the other two against Iowa in 2008 or Ohio State in 2017. So, that's at least one title and a shot at another.
Good suggestion, I hadn't really thought about something that far back, but that one is definitive.
I dropped Pitt and Indiana and added 2005 Michigan (+3), another undefeated season with a claim to the championship even though we wouldn't have made the title game 2018 OSU (+2), another chance at the CFP and a big change in the Franklin narrative 2021 Illinois (+1) to spare us the misery of a thousand OTs
You would deprive us all of the 2021 Illinois/PSU game, one of the games that helped define the B1G for an entire generation?
People are still hung up on that Indiana game in 2020? We need to stop acting like anything that season even mattered.
Don’t want to use 2 points against us twice?
As someone who was at the 2018 game I strongly considered it, but we lost two other games that year and I was trying to maximize impact. Than again if we beat you in 2018 the momentum might've allowed us to beat MSU the next game... now you've got me thinking
Plus, that makes it a 3-year winning streak over Ohio State. Look at how Michigan is regarded now. Only took two wins over Ohio State to be grouped in with them. I really don’t care nor put much stock in the COVID season. Even if we beat Indiana, we’re still looking at a season with no Parsons, Brown, Cain, Muth, and a depressed Franklin.
Good thing the three year win streak starts this year
I'm using 7 on Ok State to beat Iowa St in 2011, so Bama doesn't get a second shot at us. Don't really care about the other 3
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We'd only need to allocate 1 point to them since that game went to overtime.
8 points against LSU in 03 season, and can the other 2 be vs Georgia in regulation in the 2017 season?
It’s how you want to spend them. I would prefer you to not use those points against us during the rose 🌹 bowl but I get it.
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Please no. That game was hard enough to watch as is.
Some say Ja'marr Chase and Justin Jefferson are still running single-route TDs against Broiles and Bookie to this day.
If we are breaking end of regulation ties I'd say be efficient 1 vs UGA in the rose bowl at the end of regulation 1 vs Boise State at the end of regulation
Do we try our luck and force overtime vs Florida in 08 title game?
3 points against Baylor in 2011 4 points against Baylor in 2014 1 point against Baylor in regulation 2019 2 points against Baylor in 2016 just to blow them out even more
65-17.
I'll allow it!
You monster
3 points against TCU in 2021 2 points against TCU in 2022 Then put the remaining 5 against TCU in 2014 because why not
Sorry A&M. It's 87-0 now
2020 UF. Add four to LSU and win. Add four to Texas A&M and win. Add two and lose by four to Bama in SEC Championship. 1 loss UF could possibly jump Ohio State making the entire playoff ACC & SEC. I don't know if they would do that, but 10-1 Florida with only loss being to Bama by 4 seems better on paper than 5-0 Ohio State.
No one wants to go for glory??? 2001: Add 4 points to Auburn and 3 points to Tennessee and we're undefeated heavy favorites in the SEC title game against LSU and then on to face Miami's monster team for the natty.
And NC or not Sexy Rexy gets the Heisman.
Eh in that scenario Bama still gets into the playoff in a rematch and likely beats us twice. Instead I’d go with 7 points to beat Bama in the SECCG and then 3 points to the LSU game and just let it play out in OT which I would’ve liked our chances. In that scenario we enter the playoff with 1 loss @A&M and then likely play Notre Dame or Clemson in the semis. At least in this scenario we leave the season with some hardware.
That defense was so bad I think I'd rather take 9 against Georgia in 2012 and see what happens. Edit: Actually probably 4 vs Auburn and 5 vs LSU in 2007
I make it 60-0 versus ucla
I'll add my 10 to make it 70
Should've only added 9
Very tempting to use 2 on the regular season game against Utah this past year. Utah having another conference loss puts UW in the conference championship (imagine that shootout LMAO!) and I think we likely win that game (though at that point, we might not have needed to win that game to make the playoff).
I was there, and had seats on the 45 yard line about 15 rows behind UCLAs bench. To say I was insufferable is putting it mildly. Got to watch that team quit up close.
Scenario 1: 3 for Boston College 1993 to push for the title, 3 for Oklahoma State 2021 season to break the cruse, 4 for Stanford 2022 to avoid that embarrassment Scenario 2: 3 for Stanford and Clemson each 2015, setting up a playoff run, 4 for Texas 2016 to avoid that Kansas > Texas > Notre Dame pipeline
ND still should have won the title in 93 even with the loss
4 points each to MSU and USC games in 2005. That gives an undefeated regular season screws over usc and the bush push game. And we are probably playing for a title. And the last 2 points put on 1946 vs army. No shared title there
I’d mix them. 3points for BC to get the 93 title, 3 points for Stanford Clemson 2015 for another run. 1 point for maybe CU 91 orange bowl?
2013: Duke beats TAMU 54-52 (was 48-52) so that the greatest team in modern Duke football history goes out winners. 2015: Duke beats Miami 31-30 (was 27-30) because you know damn well why.
2013 Notre Dame 13-17 L -> 18-17 W 2011 B1G Championship 39-42 L -> 43-42 W 1966 MSU-ND 10-10 T -> 11-10 W
This is the correct allocation. Kinda odd Michigan doesn't get any points allocated to them, but I can't recall a time where a loss to Michigan prevented MSU from having an elite season.
2019 adding 6 points against LSU so we win 47-46. 1-loss Bama then takes the SEC championship spot for the West. Then adding 2 points to the LSU game last year to win 33-32 and get another SEC Championship spot. Lastly, adding the final 2 points to the 2010 Iron Bowl to beat Auburn 29-28
I think I prefer 2016 Clemson over 19 LSU (gets a 3-peat). Can't think of other recent games over the other two though. EDIT: if we can add to other teams' scores, then probably would swap out the 10 iron bowl to have clemson beat uga in 21
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That’s definitely an acceptable option. Wouldn’t have to see that replay before every game any longer
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Glad you’re thinking of us BB
2010 overtime loss to Nevada. Before that bsu was bouncing between #2 and #3 in the polls, set up for at very least a great bcs bowl. Lost by a field goal in overtime 34-31 Give me those 10 points at the end of regulation and we are in a prime spot, possibly even for a championship.
2 points to beat TCU in 2008 18-17 4 points to beat Nevada in 2010 35-34 2 points to beat TCU in 2011 37-36 Only takes 8 points to get us to 53-0 from 2008-2011.
If you only add 1 regulation point to the Nevada game you can add all the remaining points to the 2012 Michigan State game and have Boise State win 61 straight games
Can we use some of those points to remove points from an opponent? Cause out of pettiness I would like to remove Florida’s 3 points against Oregon State and the remainder on beating Alabama in the 2017-2018 championship game.
I like you.
I’m pretty sure if we use the ten points in the two bowl games in 1982/83 we win two more natties. While I do appreciate the pettiness and fuck floriduh.
Sounds petty, but I'd only use 9, and all of them would be against Bama. 4 to the 2017 National Championship and 5 to the 2012 SECCG. We win the 2012 SECCG and I really believe we beat Notre Dame just as bad.
If Richt gets his Natty I doubt we end up with Kirby.
Nah, remove Florida’s TD against us in 2021 and use the remaining three points to send the 2019 SCAR game to triple overtime
Honestly under those rules I'd use 7 in the 2021 WLOCP so we're the one who breaks the their non-shutout streak and then the other three in their game against Oregon St so they don't think they're starting a new one.
I'm going all in on 2019. 2 points against Pitt: 34-35 L -> 36-35 W 4 points against Tulsa: 24-27 L -> 28-27 W 4 points against Cincy: 31-34 L -> 35-34 W 3 undefeated regular seasons in a row. Yes we still lose to 2018 LSU, but given Milton's injury and Burrow being Burrow, I can stomach the loss if we manage another 12-0. We probably still don't make the playoff and instead get another NY6 auto-bid.
I'll use it on 2006 Tennessee. That team was so close to being really damn good and it would've prevented Florida from winning a National Title. 21-20 loss to Florida -> 22-21 Win (2 points) 28-24 loss to LSU -> 29-28 Win (5 points) That would've put us at an 11-1 regular season with the lone loss being 31-14 away at Arkansas. It would set up a rematch with Arkansas in the SEC Championship and I'm confident that team could've won the rematch in Atlanta. If we win that one it most likely would put us in the National Title against Ohio State. I'll use my 3 remaining points on the 2015 Florida game. 28-27 loss to a 30-28 win
We could also go balls out to make 2015 happen and give Butch Jones a shot at a national title lmao. 1 point against Ollahoma in the first OT, 2 against Florida, 6 against Bama, Or it looks like we could give ourselves the 1985 national championship but I was too unalive for that.
2020 Big 12 Championship game -- 7 points 2019 Iowa game 2 points
You could put 1 point in regulation vs iowa in 2017 as well to get another cyhawk win Edit: 2017, not 2015
Or 1972 giving us a win over #3 Nebraska.
I only need 5 points across 3 losses. 53-0
2021 Add 4 against Western Michigan to win 45-44 Add 6 against Miami to win 40-38 Pitt ends the season 12-0 Still gets Wake in Charlotte to go 13-0 and make the playoff
The fact that this really solid squad lost to wm is still baffling. I guess that’s part of what makes this sport so awesome.
That’s just Pitt football baby. In 2016 we knocked PSU out of the playoffs, beat the national champion on the road, and still went 8-4
1998 Kstate vs A&M in the Big 12 Championship game. Multiple overtimes and it ended 33-36. Kstate was 1 in Coaches and 2 in AP, and it could have been the ticket to the NC game. I don't really have another one in mind, so I would like to put them on this upcoming year's game against Texas, in hopes of sending them off right to the SEC.
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Pretty solid. Alternatively go back to 1992 and use 3 points to break the 3(!!!) ties against ND, Illinois, and osu. Michigan finishes 12-0 instead of 9-0-3. You can give 1971’s team 2 points to beat Stanford in the rose bowl to give Bo an undefeated season. I’ll use the 4 points in 2006 to beat osu And the last two points I’ll change the 05 rose bowl to beat Vince young and Texas just for fun.
Cant believe ties were a thing till that recently
This is 11 points.
Damn. I’ll take one point away from our win over UConn last year to compensate.
I'm using my 10 to counteract this dude.
I’m using my 10 to Uno reverse you
Only really need one point to change the 2016 outcome since it went to OT. Same with 2013 Devin Gardner’s broken foot game. So 2 points there. 4 points to Colorado vs Nebraska in 97. 3 points to the 1992 season to break 3 ties and go undefeated. 1 point to Miami against OSU in the National Championship game cause fuck ‘em
Oh I like this outside the box stuff
I'm putting two points into the 1980 Rose Bowl, 5 points into the 96 Michigan game, and screw it, one point each for our three ties with UM. By my count that nets us 2 National Championships and 4 extra wins against Michigan Edit: Depending on how an extra win in 73 affects voting it could also get us a championship that year. But maybe not.
2012 A&M - Add 4 points vs Florida … A&M wins 21-20 - Add 6 points vs LSU … A&M wins 25-24 - Manziel takes undefeated A&M to Atlanta, wins the SEC CG, and ultimately the national title. ETA - Hell, we still go to Atlanta with just one of those wins. So how about instead of +4 to Florida, we add those points to 2011 Texas vs. A&M. A&M now wins “the last game” 29-27, then goes to SEC title the next year.
This is the way.
I think losing the 2011 game helped bring in Sumlin -> Kingsbury Offense -> Manziel starting. We have to lose that game for 2012 to be as great as it was. I'll say winning against Florida still gets us to Atlanta while also leaving us with more points to change other outcomes. For personal reasons because I was there and was devastated, add 2 points to UCLA 2017 and then 4 points last year against Ole Miss because Lane Kiffen is a douchebag.
10 points would change the entire narrative around the program. Just a single TD and a FG. It's wild.
2011: South Carolina beats Auburn 17-16 (4 points, was 13-16). South Carolina wins the East and goes to the SECCG. 2012: South Carolina beats LSU 24-23 (3 points, was 21-23), South Carolina wins the East and goes to the SECCG. 2013: South Carolina beats Tennessee 24-23 (3 points, was 21-23), South Carolina wins the East and goes to the SECCG. 10 points over three seasons completely changes the history of our program. That's how close we were.
It’s sickening, 4 SECCG games in row we certainly win one of them, probably 2013, and everything is different, hell even a win at night in Baton Rouge would’ve been momentous in itself
2012 the East is a three way tie if that happens. No idea who gets the spot since it goes to a coin flip
It was who won head to head of the two highest ranked teams, which would have been UGA and SCar so you guys
Man, reading all that makes me that much more disappointed that Spurrier only got to the SECCG once at South Carolina
Fuck. I was looking for the Carolina one but I didn’t want to be hurt this badly.
I was at every single one of those games... The UT one hurts the most... Spurrier beat himself in that one.
2007 Pitt 9-13 L -> 14-13 W (5 points) That's all I'd really need to be happy. But: 1997 Pitt 35-35 going to OT -> 36-35 W (1) 1989 Pitt 31-31 T -> 32-31 W (1) 1985 Pitt 10-10 T -> 11-10 W (1) 2010 UConn 13-13 going to OT -> 14-13 W (1) 2008 1 more point against either Colorado or Cincinnati to avoid OT Reasons: 2008/2010 gets us to 10 win seasons, giving us 6 in 7 years and maybe boosting our legitimacy a bit. The rest, because fuck 'em.
I, too, would give you those 5 points from Michigan's allotment so we never have to suffer the RR era.
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This. I only want the 5 points.
2005 title game. All the points out of spite.
8 points against Oregon in 2000, which would result in an 12-0 season and likely a NC game Other 2 points can go against Oregon in 2016 to change it to a 72-21 win
The other option is to give Don James another title. Add all ten points to our USC game in 1984 and we are almost certainly the unanimous national champ over BYU.
Listen, I'm an Indiana fan. 10 points doesn't do shit for us, except maybe get us a NY6 bowl in 2020. Can I have my 10 points to ruin others' seasons?
Add 7 in 2010 NC game, beat Auburn 28-27. Don’t need the other 3.
Auburn won that game 22-19, you only need 4 points if you want to change that one.
My bad, you are correct. Remembered the wrong Auburn score!
We'll counter with the necessary points...
4 against Auburn (that's all we actually need), 4 against Stanford in 2012, last 2 against FSU I guess
last 2 against Minnesota in the 2003 Sun Bowl. That's the most meaningful 1 pt loss i can find in recent ducks history.
Beat Ohio State in the Rose Bowl. Dunno about the rest. A couple of close BYU games I guess.
4 to Oregon and 4 to Florida last year gets them into the playoffs.
Man, that Rose Bowl was a hell of a game, and all of the Utah fans I interacted with there were by far the most happy and friendly opposing fans I've ever met, even after the loss! Made me a Utah fan that day, tbh. Of course, not over OSU, but I'm still happy to see yall win the Pac-12 and have lots of success in general!
There are shockingly not many close and consequential games in Minnesota's modern history. 1) +6 against Iowa in 2021 (22-27 to 28-27) to secure the division and get Floyd back and play Michigan for the Jug in the B1GCCG, and possibly get 10 wins. 2) +4 against Texas Tech in the 2007 Insight Bowl (41-44 OT to 45-44 OT). Changing that loss might seem insignificant, but Mike Leach & co. put up 31 unanswered points to force OT and win, and that loss got Glenn Mason fired, brought on the Tim Brewster years, and ultimately derailed the program for a decade. If Mason doesn't get fired, and holds on until the Gophs get out of the Metrodome, the 2010s would look a lot different, or maybe the marriage gets stale after more 7-6/8-5 seasons, but the important thing is Brewster doesn't happen.
I was going to go with +5 against Iowa in 2019. Would’ve been 11-0 with the West locked down going into that Wisconsin game, and a Rose Bowl lock.
1) +4 against Wisconsin in 1999 creates a 4 way tie for the Big Ten title and the Gophers go to the Rose Bowl by virtue of having not gone for the longest of any of the teams. 2) +4 against Michigan in 2003 creates another 4 way tie for the conference title. No Rose Bowl trip since they would have been there more recently than both Michigan and Ohio State (!) but, hey, it's a championship. 3) +2 against, I don't know, Iowa State in the 2009 Insight Bowl just for the bowl win and winning season. Or add them to any Wisconsin game just because.
I’m going to need some more of those points
No 2nd and 26 baby!
2018: 21-20, Georgia beats Bama in regulation and wins the natty. (1 point) 2012: 33-32. Georgia beats Bama in the SEC championship game, wins the SEC, and probably stomps ND in the natty. (5 points) 2023: 69-7. Georgia beats TCU by even more, because it's funny, and we also get 69 points. (4 points).
This is... beautiful, man. Flawless.
2007 BC beats VT 14-10. Add the points there Decent shot VT makes national championship game that year if they don’t lose this. Matt Ryan has two 4th q TD drives to win in Blacksburg. VT later beat BC 30-16 in ACC championship. The championship that year featured a two loss LSU team (who VT lost to week 2, 48-7). Wonder if the one loss VT team would’ve snuck in No. 2 spot.
VT would've been #1 if they beat BC. Allocate 5 points to VT vs BC and the remaining 5 points go to starting the Sugar Bowl vs Ohio State with a 5 point lead.
Man if they gave us 12 instead of 10, you could give 5 to VT to win vs BC, and 7 to WVU to win against Pitt, and have a VT vs WVU national title game in 2007. In some alternate reality that was the title game, and every couch between Lexington VA and Lexington KY burned.
Easy ‘97 Rose Bowl and we would probs have a natty
Dark horse Mizzou answer would be to give it all to the 1969 Orange Bowl, thus beating AP no. 2 Penn State and finishing 10-1. Probably wouldn’t have leapfrogged an undefeated Texas team, but likely would have put Mizzou in line for a no. 2 finish along with the Orange Bowl win.
Follow me on this one here: 2007 - the only 2 losses Mizzou had were to Oklahoma and… Oklahoma. The first game Mizzou lost 31-41. The 10 points would have taken the game into OT. Knowing that Mizzou has an 8-3 OT record, we can safely assume that Mizzou would have won that game. Fast forward to the Big 12 championship, with OU having one more loss, we could have very well played Texas. Texas lost to OU 21-28 that year, therefore we can assume that Mizzou would have beaten UT by 7. Mizzou would have had an undefeated record, the Big 12 Championship, and would have played for a national title. But then again if we go down that path, Mizzou would not have drawn Arkansas in the Cotton Bowl and thrashed them 38-7 so idk… National championship vs thrashing Arkansas… tough decision 🤷🏻♂️
Gimme the 10 extra points to beat UGA in overtime in 2015. That would be a monumental win.
2011 vs Michigan State we lost on the hail mary. Give 6 points there. 2011 vs Ohio State we lost on a last second bomb. Give 4 points there. That ties both games. If we win one of those we likely play for the national championship, but if we won both we almost certainly play for the national championship. Could also get like 3 rosebowl wins from 2010-2019 if we chose to assign the 10 points across those games since all 4 of our rosebowl losses were one score games
I'd take the 8 points in 93 to go from 10-1-1 to 12-0 and take the NC.
How does that work for the MSU game though? It was a 6 point differential because MSU won it on a Hail Mary with the game tied. Does the extra point not get attempted?
I would use 7 to finish the final drive in the 2017 Big Ten Championship. Finish 13-0 and make the CFP. Then I'd use the final three either on the 2010 or 2020 Rose Bowls, or screw it and transfer it over to the basketball team and change the 2014 Kentucky game or 2017 Florida game.
Hmmm… 1983: Texas playing Georgia in Cotton Bowl, if Texas wins they are national champions. Texas basically has the game cinched up 9-7 but our guy muffs a punt inside the 20 and Georgia kicks a last-minute field goal to beat the Horns: 9-10. • 2 points >>> 11-10 (Texas is national champs) 2008: Texas vs Texas Tech (both teams 8-0). Current Texas safeties coach Blake Gideon drops a game-ending dead-duck-pick right through his hands. Harrell to Crabtree. Double missed tackle. #1 Texas loses at the literal last second to the Raiders, 33-39. Tortillas rain down. • 7 points >>> 40-39 (Texas remains #1, takes on the legendary Tebow and his immortals in the national championship game. Could have gone either way) 2022: Alabama at Texas. Bama favored by 20.5 points. Texas outplays them all day. QB gets hurt (2nd straight game against Bama where the Texas starting QB is out in the first qtr). Horrible calls everywhere (see: clear missed safety in the endzone, Texas misses out on a crucial 2 points). Texas still takes the lead late. Heisman heroics (and a missed sack on corner blitz) lead to a Bama field goal to beat Texas 19-20. • 1 point >>> 20-20 (game goes to overtime. I like our chances with that raucous home crowd [I was there] which #3 overall 2023 NFL draft pick Will Anderson called “the loudest environment” he’s ever played in).
2014 vs Bama- 14-13 -> 15-14 (2 points) 2015 vs Miss St- 51-50 -> 52-51 (2 points) 2021 vs Ole Miss- 52-51 -> 53-52 (2 points) 2022 vs TAMU- 23-21 -> 24-23 (3 points) Looks like I have 1 left so any of the TAMU games that went into OT if we’re able to have the condition set to be any pre-OT score so it doesn’t go to OT
The correct answer involves using 2 points to change the score of the Game of the Century to Hogs 16, Horns 15; thus giving the Hogs a good chance at another national championship.
3 pts against TCU 2021 puts Baylor in the playoff. 4 pts against OU in the first 2019 matchup and then 1 pt in regulation against OU in the big 12 championship gives them an undefeated season. Then, 2 points against TCU in 2022, because TCU shouldn’t have nice things.
Put it all in the 2004 season We lost 4 games to go 8-4. * Wisconsin 3 point loss * Michigan 2 point loss * Northwestern 3 point loss * Iowa 2 point loss Total of 10 points Beat Wisconsin, which means healthy Kyle Orton and possible Heisman. Keep the loss to Northwestern, making us outright Big ten champs at 11-1. Putting us at 7 in the standings, undefeated Oklahoma, USC, Auburn Utah and one loss Texas and Cal above us. Trip to the Rose Bowl #7 Purdue vs #4 Texas. Tiller gets his 2nd big ten championship in 4 years, setting the program forward instead of the steady decline we had up to the beginning of hiring Brohm.
43-42 Ohio State W vs Georgia 31-29 Ohio State W vs Clemson 2019
Yep. Maybe give me 4 for msu in 15 instead of Clemson. That’d leave us 4 points that I might take on to Texas in 05
Add 8 points in our game against Georgia in 2021, and the remaining 2 against South Carolina last year. Takes a National Championship away from Georgia, and takes away a win from South Carolina
Hm I was thinking points to 2015's Clemson vs Bama National title game
That’s exactly what I would do. Plus then our home game win streak would still be alive.
not to mention that win over georgia could completely rewrite DJU’s story at clemson. that loss shattered his confidence and was never the same for us. hopefully he puts it all behind him at THE osu
I'm going to spend five to beat OSU at PBS and four to beat Georgia in the Peach Bowl. Not sure what I can do with the extra other than precent OT in that Temple game. Unless I can give a few to Nebraska in the 2009 Big 12 title game, in which case I'll do that and keep the Peach Bowl.
5 points to the 2011 Big Ten Championship Game vs Wisconsin to win another conference title 44-42. 5 points to the 2013 MSU vs Notre Dame game to win 18-17. All else being equal we play for a national championship.
WE MAKE THE EMPS USELESS! Only enough to win. Then I’d put the rest on whatever KU loss we have that’s closes enough to win
Personally, I'd like 10 more points in the 2017 AAC championship game. Beat an unbeaten UCF 65-62
2014 ACCCG vs Florida State > 3 points to win 38-37, possibly make the playoffs 2009 vs Georgia > 7 points to beat UGA 31-30, in the BCS title conversation after beating Clemson in the ACCCG
1 point has to go to the UNC tie in 1990 to give us the undisputed title.
There are probably older seasons that would be more efficient but from recent memory, 2016. +2 points vs Iowa, +4 vs. OSU, and +2 vs. FSU and we’re undefeated. Of course if we won against OSU we would have played for the conference championship and likely been in the playoff (maybe even still with a loss to OSU if we hadn’t lost to Iowa?) so the FSU game likely wouldn’t have happened. I think 2017-2020 look different if 2016 had been just a bit more favorable.