Insider reveals the real reason why Nebraska Tennessee Football Series niche niche

The specified reason Nebraska released his long -term football series with Tennessee Had to do with upcoming renovation work on the Memorial Stadium that reduces its sitting capacity.

But the real reason could have played with the College Football playoff and the role of the post -season format when shifting the Cornhuskers to change their football plan.

According to Pete Thamel Pete Thamel of the ESPN College Football, this believes that Nebraska probably didn't want to play the series with the extended playoff and how the selection committee weighed the strength of the schedule last season.

Although the committee says that it represents a bonus for teams that play a more difficult table, there is an opinion among the decision -makers of sport that the metric is not as important as announced.

“I think that only depends on Nebraska, just didn't want to play this series,” said Thamel at College Gameday Podcast.

“The only piece of empirical evidence that we have from this 12-team playoff indicates cloudy rewards for a difficult non-conference plan. This is the data set with which we are dealing with. “

While the strategy may be able to pay off, Nebraska to enable a relatively simpler victory in the field, it is not exactly what Thamel would describe as an exciting football.

“We are not biased with teams. We are not biased in terms of leagues. But we like really good games, ”he said.

“The USC-Utah Valley is not what we are excited. We want teams to play good games, and I don't think this shows a certain prejudices unless we are fans in the heart and we like to watch great college football. “

He added: “Nebraska-Bowling Green … is not a great college football. But I cannot accuse the strategy with the evidence we have. “

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(Thamel)

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