Cornell Football 2016

[CAS]

Finally we are the champions!   Hopefully being nat'l champs will enable us to have stands on both sides of Schoelkopf.

[ugarte]

To my surprise, I could have done this last year.

[Swampy]

Hey, can we do this with other teams too? Basketball is an obvious choice, but we have so many non-NC teams, the entire athletics program should be subjected to champion-by-transitivity criteria.

[Trotsky]

Hey, can we do this with other teams too? Basketball is an obvious choice, but we have so many non-NC teams, the entire athletics program should be subjected to champion-by-transitivity criteria.

Basketball was very simple.

Cornell > Northwestern > Michigan State > Saint Johns > Butler > Villanova

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Hockey:

Cornell > Merrimack > Providence > Denver > N. Dakota

[ugarte]

Hockey:

Cornell > Merrimack > Providence > Denver > N. Dakota

Hockey and basketball are always easy because even the best teams typically have a few losses and even the one-loss teams usually lost to a team with enough losses to give everyone a simple path. Football is fun because one big upset (Pitt over Clemson) can open up most of D-I and division jumping wins (Illinois State over Northwestern) open up the rest of football, because then the other division jumping applies to even NY Maritime:

[Chris '03]

Hockey:

Cornell > Merrimack > Providence > Denver > N. Dakota

Didn't Cornell beat PC too?

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Hockey:

Cornell > Merrimack > Providence > Denver > N. Dakota

Didn't Cornell beat PC too?

Not this year.

FTR, Miami just made this easier:  Cornell > Miami > UND

[ugarte]

Hockey:

Cornell > Merrimack > Providence > Denver > N. Dakota

Didn't Cornell beat PC too?

Not this year.

FTR, Miami just made this easier:  Cornell > Miami > UND

You can't use this year's games to beat last year's National Champ.

[Jeff Hopkins '82]

Hockey:

Cornell > Merrimack > Providence > Denver > N. Dakota

Didn't Cornell beat PC too?

Not this year.

FTR, Miami just made this easier:  Cornell > Miami > UND

You can't use this year's games to beat last year's National Champ.

Sorry, guess I wasn't sure of the rules of this game.

[ugarte]

Hockey:

Cornell > Merrimack > Providence > Denver > N. Dakota

Didn't Cornell beat PC too?

Not this year.

FTR, Miami just made this easier:  Cornell > Miami > UND

You can't use this year's games to beat last year's National Champ.

Sorry, guess I wasn't sure of the rules of this game.

Yeah, sorry for not explaining. The transitive national championship looks back after the championship game and finds an A > B > C way to "claim" that your team was really the champ.

[marty]

Hockey:

Cornell > Merrimack > Providence > Denver > N. Dakota

Didn't Cornell beat PC too?

Not this year.

FTR, Miami just made this easier:  Cornell > Miami > UND

You can't use this year's games to beat last year's National Champ.

Then we want to beat who? What? Third base.

[nshapiro]

I miss the other game where the previous year's Champ had 'The Belt', and it would transfer when they were beaten.  Is that still being done somewhere for NCAA Hockey?

[TimV]

I think that's still a thread on USCHO.

[marty]

I think Ursaminor is in charge of the belt.