This is an ignorant post at best, and at worst it is moronic.
If you had bothered reading the article you would know that Illinois week 9 is a playoff week.
If you were referring to Indiana week 9 you have no factual basis to make such a statement. Name a team that you know who forfeited a game because they were going to miss the playoffs. I don’t know of it happening, even in the cluster days. This shows a tremendous disconnect from the players, coaches, and fans that I know.
It does help me to understand you tilting at windmills while talking about your pie in the sky “Contraction Doctrine”.