play each other. We don't have a game against any of them. So there are 5 teams we are vying against for the 2 spots. We are in a pretty good spot if we only lose 1 game. Obviously, if we don't lose any, we are in regardless.
Iowa St. needs 2 losses to be "eliminated".
The other 4 only need 1 loss to be "eliminated."
So we really only need 6 losses to "eliminate" everybody.
As it turns out there are 6 games between these teams. That means there are 6 GUARANTEED losses coming up for this group of teams.
Here's a grid of who plays who.
|
BYU |
Iowa St |
Kansas St |
Colorado |
Texas Tech |
Cincinnati |
BYU |
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Iowa St |
|
|
XX |
|
XX |
XX |
Kansas St |
|
XX |
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|
|
XX |
Colorado |
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|
|
|
XX |
XX |
Texas Tech |
|
XX |
|
XX |
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Cincinnati |
|
XX |
XX |
XX |
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