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Wimbledon will host play on its middle Sunday for only the fourth time in its 139-year history in 2016.?Peoples Sunday, as it has been known, is one of the best days in tennis for some and has produced some magic moments. Here are some of the highlights:1991Of all the players, it was Jimmy Connors -- the old street-fighter of the lawns, and a man who fed off the energy of a crowd -- who most appreciated this unbuttoned Wimbledon.Even though he lost to Derrick Rostagno, Connors probably never had more fun at the All England Club than when playing in front of the thousands who had slept rough for tickets.It definitely wasnt the regular traditionalists watching tennis and saying, jolly good. It was my kind of crowd. I wish it had been like this for the last 20 years. Where have they been?Connors was taken aback by the Mexican wave. Even the occupants of the Royal Box joined in.Can anyone imagine a wave at Wimbledon? he said. Usually, the only wave here is like this? And then, according to someone who was in the room, Connors wiggled his middle finger and pinky.The day was also to John McEnroes taste. It was a nice change of pace, said McEnroe, now an ESPN analyst. You dont often get a soccer crowd at Wimbledon.1997Peoples Sunday was all about Britains?Tim Henman;?he?survived a five-setter against Dutchman Paul Haarhuis, which?culminated with a 14-12 final set.From the start, the noise was at a totally different level, said Henman, the Andy Murray of his day. To have virtually all the spectators in Centre Court screaming your name, I dont think Ive ever experienced that before.I dont think you could get a better atmosphere in all of sport.But for the support of the crowd, Henman would quite possibly have lost this match.2004You know that something is up at the All England Club when Henmans father, Anthony, arrives at his Centre Court seat in a crewneck sweater, rather than a necktie and a blazer.Once again, Henman was the headline act on the middle Sunday. The Englishman, who is much more of a populist than you might imagine, used the support of the crowd to carry him through his match against Moroccos Hicham Arazi.It was absolutely phenomenal.Theyre the true fans to have been out there queuing, Henman said.It was packed from the word go. When I was 2-0 down in the fourth set, the crowd definitely kick-started me again, and helped me to win the match in four sets. 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The biggest question facing the committee, though, will come on Dec. 4, when it has to determine the value of a conference championship and what to do with an Ohio State team that didnt even win its own division.In each of the past two seasons, speculation swirled about how the committee would handle an independent like Notre Dame or a team that didnt win its conference title, but that debate never came to fruition -- until now. With four wins against Top 25 teams -- at Oklahoma, at Wisconsin, Nebraska and now Michigan -- Ohio State has a playoff résumé that rivals that of any other team in the country save for undefeated Alabama. Penn State, though, clinched the East Division and will play Wisconsin for the Big Ten title, guaranteeing the conference a two-loss champion.And there sits one-loss Ohio State, which beat Wisconsin but lost to Penn State.This will be quite the conundrum for the selection committee, which has been directed by the 10 FBS commissioners in its protocol to use head-to-head results and conference championships as tiebreakers when résumés are comparable.Because Penn State has two losses, though, is it comparable? Dont forget: PSU lost to an unranked Pitt team and lost by 39 points to Michigan -- hence its current No. 7 ranking.The Nittany Lions and their fans need to prepare for the fact that Penn State could win the Big Ten and be left out of the playoff in favor of a team they beat in October. As of today, the gap between No. 2 Ohio State and No. 7 Penn State is significant, according to committee chair Kirby Hocutt, but it should shrink after PSUs convincing win over Michigan State to clinch the East. The more justifiable scenario for the committee would be to have Penn State AND Ohio State in their top four.At the expense of ... ahem ... Washington.Told you to brace yourself, Huskies.Washingtons nonconference schedule -- wins against Rutgers, Idaho and FCS foe Portland State -- is Bayloresque. Worse than that, in fact. Those teams are a combined 12-22 right now. According to ESPN Stats & Information, Washingtons nonconference schedule is ranked 127th out of 128 FBS teams. (Only Boston Colleges is worse.) An undefeated record could compensate for that, but one loss opens the door for debate. The good news is that Washington will have earned wins over ranked opponents Stanford, Utah and Washington State, plus a top-10 team in Colorado if it wins the Pac-12 title.dddddddddddd.None of those wins, though, is as good as Ohio States win over Michigan. Its also possible No. 23 Washington State drops out of the committees Top 25 this week. If the committee puts Washington in, it will send a message contradictory to everything it has hammered home to this point about strength of schedule. Athletic directors and coaches would then be less inclined to schedule aggressively if they could get away with playing a nonconference lineup like Washingtons and still get in, despite losing a game.And yet ... dont dismiss the possibility that the top four could include Ohio State AND Washington -- but not Penn State.Heres what we know: Alabama and Clemson should be locks if they win their respective conference championships, and somebody from the Big Ten is getting in.Maybe two somebodies.The best-case scenario for Ohio State would be for Wisconsin to win the Big Ten because the Buckeyes beat the Badgers back in October. That head-to-head result would certainly make it easier on the selection committee to explain why it put Ohio State in.What would be difficult to justify would be keeping Michigan in after its second loss of the season. 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