2012 Mid-American Conference Championship Game: #21 Northern Illinois v#17 Kent State

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And Kent State tries to get creative with a reverse near the goal line, fumbles it, and luckily they fall on it...about 8 yards back
 
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INT in the endzone, the dream dies

44-37


meanwhile, Oklahoma fans are smiling (and some Clemson fans just got a bit hopeful)
 
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MAC so hard. Fun while it lasted. NIU winning takes away a lot of money from the conference, but the title's more important.

And it'll be hilarious if TCU beats Oklahoma tomorrow and the overrated Sooners celebrated this all for naught.
 
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After costing the conference $8 mil, it now looks likely that NIU will now play in the GoDaddy.com bowl (where they well might have still played even if had they lost this game) against the Sun Belt's #2 selection.


Kent State meanwhile drops from the Orange Bowl all the way down to the Little Caesar's Bowl (likely versus an at large, the Big Ten probably will not / can not fill this far down their quota)...still for a team that hasn't played in a bowl game since 40 years ago, it's not all bad
 
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govols120 said:
MAC so hard. Fun while it lasted. NIU winning takes away a lot of money from the conference, but the title's more important.

And it'll be hilarious if TCU beats Oklahoma tomorrow and the overrated Sooners celebrated this all for naught.
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Then Clemson probably goes, again.
 
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govols120 said:
Yuck. Are there any other candidates other than hoping for a ridiculous NIU jump?
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Nope. The SEC candidates are all out. Same with any other Pac-12 team (the UCLA/Stanford winner makes the second). If GT wins, FSU falls too far (while Clemson still sits in the upper teens).



And I don't see any way NIU jumps up over 3-4 teams not playing from where they are now to 16 just with this win.


There's a slim chance Boise could jump from 20 to 16, but only playing Nevada this week and with Michigan ahead of them, that'd be tough...best I can figure is that could only happen if (along a Texas and UCLA loss) GT could somehow beat FSU so badly that they dropped to the 20s (and as a 2-loss team; that seems hard without a truly bizarre score).





One more interesting thing would be to think about what's going to happen if Texas beats KSU and OU beats TCU... only because (since that would give OU the automatic bid) that could create a bit of a mess depending on whether or not Texas were to jump up to 14 or higher.

Clemson would get an at large...but if Texas somehow hit that 14 spot (and that's a bit of a big stretch to jump 4 spots like that...they'd likely need UCLA to lose and maybe FSU to lose...the Kent State loss helps), you could see Kansas State (presuming they're still in the top 14) getting dicked out of getting an at-large bid yet again just because "they're a smaller fanbase team"
 
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They're saying on ESPN if FSU chokes against Ga Tech NIU has a chance of making it in. They'd rank higher than two BCS conference champs, at least.
 
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