If you've lost the Big 10 Sports Bar & Grill, you've lost America.
— BUM CHILLUPS (@edsbs) June 22, 2019
Rutgers and Maryland are the red-headed stepchildren of the Big Ten. I know it, you know it, they know it, and probably more importantly, the College Football Playoff committee knows it too.
I wrote a Buckshot earlier today laughing at the idea that various SEC teams might be impacted by their (incredibly, ridiculously) weak out of conference schedules, but that's the SEC and as in all things, they get to operate by different rules.