[CardinalSagehen]

If Stanford beats the Beavers, are they bowl eligible at 3-2, and likely to actually get an invitation?

And, for that matter, how would tie-breaking work if Stanford, Washington and Oregon all go 3-2, which suddenly seems as likely as not if my math is right....?

Unfortunately, the tie-breakers don’t favor us for the North title.  Oregon would have to win next week, which would mean they’d be 2-0 against Stanford and Washington, resulting in their winning the North. Record amongst the tied teams comes before division record, which would favor Stanford.  

We were eliminated last week when UW scored with 0:30 remaining to beat Utah.  Had UW just lost that game, all we’d need is for UW to beat Oregon next week and we’d otherwise control our own destiny with a win over ORST. We even would have been okay if Oregon beat Cal today in this scenario.  All three 2-loss teams would be 1-1 against each other, but Oregon’s losses would be in the division, so that would throw out Oregon.  And then we’d have the advantage over UW based on our head-to-head win. What might have been...

[CardinalSagehen]

If Stanford beats the Beavers, are they bowl eligible at 3-2, and likely to actually get an invitation?

And, for that matter, how would tie-breaking work if Stanford, Washington and Oregon all go 3-2, which suddenly seems as likely as not if my math is right....?

Unfortunately, the tie-breakers don’t favor us for the North title.  Oregon would have to win next week, which would mean they’d be 2-0 against Stanford and Washington, resulting in their winning the North. Record amongst the tied teams comes before division record, which would favor Stanford.  

We were eliminated last week when UW scored with 0:30 remaining to beat Utah.  Had UW just lost that game, all we’d need is for UW to beat Oregon next week and we’d otherwise control our own destiny with a win over ORST. We even would have been okay if Oregon beat Cal today in this scenario.  All three 2-loss teams would be 1-1 against each other, but Oregon’s losses would be in the division, so that would throw out Oregon.  And then we’d have the advantage over UW based on our head-to-head win. What might have been...