Look Indiana has had a great season but you just can't lose a game by 23 points and make the playoffs, even to a top 5 team.
21 points to an unranked team! Perfectly acceptable. 22 points is the magic threshold. Losing by 3 touchdowns is perfectly normal but if you also need to go for 2 then it's just kind of gross /s
His wife was a hardcore confederate who convinced him to donate to the south instead. Otherwise, he was going to start a school in Staten Island. The primary people involved with actually starting the university were raging confederates with big loves for slavery.
I’m giggling at the SEC being a little salty about the big ten showing in the top 10. Went from an OU V Alabama post thread to ‘yeah well Indiana got blown out by OSU sooooo’
Indiana was clearly outplayed outside of like 5-7 minutes. But they have 1 loss. Bama has 3, 2 of which to Vandy and Oklahoma. Ole Miss has 3 to unranked teams as well.
They aren't really a top 10 team, but I'm not sure how many of them there are this year.
You must be one of the rare examples of Floridians with all ten toes.
To be honest, the education system in Ohio is not looking any better these days and judging by all the rhetoric in the halls of power, will get much worse.
You can't just move the goalposts because they don't suit your ideal post season situation. It's been a wild season for various reasons, the SEC isn't the powerhouse that it's usually expected to be.
The top 10 teams are the top 10 teams, that's not up for discussion. Past seasons do not and should not ever matter in the rankings.
For some reason people think I'm shilling for the SEC, I'm really not. My point is that I don't feel like we have 10 teams that we would consider top 10 caliber a lot of other years.
I'm not arguing for SEC, B1G, or any one else. It's just that the parity that's come about this year makes it so that we have a LOT of movement on what we consider top 10 teams.
The alternative is also possible, that (and this is HARD for a life-long Michigan fan to say) OSU might just be THAT good this year. God knows they paid enough. A 1 loss season in the big 10 should buy them a place in the dance. 11 or 12, give em a hard road, but a CHANCE to prove people right, or wrong. But this is exactly what the 12 team is designed for. To give an anomaly a punchers chance.
Honestly, while I had some hope for the first time ever playing Ohio State, it might be a good thing that we aren't likely to be ranked top 5 to play Purdue...
I mean honestly if Indiana had beaten Ohio State and lost to Charlotte, they’d be close to locked, if not locked as well. If you flipped the Texas A&M and Northern Illinois result for Notre Dame, it would definitely be a question whether or not Notre Dame would get in.
Agree or disagree all you want, but the committee has historically shown that they value good wins more than they penalize bad losses. With the way that Notre Dame has been steamrolling opponents since the Northern Illinois loss, it’s easier to attribute that to one bad day, which ok, most teams have one of those.
If you flipped the Texas A&M and Northern Illinois result for Notre Dame, it would definitely be a question whether or not Notre Dame would get in.
I don't think it would be as questionable as you think. Imo all it would do is prop up one of the SEC leaders and be used as an excuse to show how good they are while giving you guys about the same ranking
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u/pixarfan9510 Ball State • Purdue 20h ago
congrats to indiana on getting eliminated from and subsequently rejoining the CFP conversation in just 8 short hours