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Posted on 12/07/2025 9:36:22 AM PST by Kid Shelleen
For the first time in program history, Indiana is the Big Ten champion and No. 1 team in college football following Saturday night's 13-10 triumph over Ohio State. The win catapults the Hoosiers to the top spot in Sunday's updated AP Top 25 rankings. Behind Heisman frontrunner Fernando Mendoza at quarterback and a Herculean defensive effort, the Hoosiers were elite in the red zone, highlighted by a fourth-and-1 stop at their own 5 late in the third quarter.
Indiana will enter the College Football Playoff as the top seed
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No matter what system they come up with there will still be some teams complaining
Exactly.
64 teams, double elimination.
Notre Dame, acting like a dame, takes their ball and goes home.
No way Alabama should still be in. Their running game was held to -3 yesterday. That’s NEGATIVE 3. The committee punishes BYU for losing to Texas Tech in a conference championship game but don’t punish Alabama despite a piss poor performance.
And Rice was a playa.
I’m quite certain the fan did. There are a lot of split allianced families up here.
Well, everywhere has them. Gators/Seminoles, Auburn/ Alabama. It happens.
I think this is what they should do, if they want to keep the current structure.
As they do with the NCAA basketball tournament, have a “Play-In” Game:
Take the best G5 team, which is Tulane, and they should play the lowest seeded remaining power conference team, or in this case, it would have been Notre Dame, because they would be the team that is the lowest seeded of eligible teams.
The winner advances to the playoffs.
Because the rule was that five slots are reserved for the top five ranked conference champions. Tulane and James Madison are ranked ahead of Duke because Duke was 7-5 going into the ACC championship, and won a bizarre five-way tiebreaker to get the nod. Hence, Tulane gets the 11 seed and my JMU Dukes get the 12 seed.
Don’t worry, I’m sure they’ll change the rules to completely screw the Group of 5 soon enough. We’re used to it.
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Four years. We entered the FBS in the Sun Belt in 2022 with Curt Cignetti coaching, lost Cignetti and about 1/3 of the team to Indiana in 2023-24, reloaded with Bob Chesney, went 8-4 last year and 12-1 this year and won the Sun Belt. Chesney is now heading to UCLA but fortunately he has a clause in his contract that he stays to coach the CFP.
Since we moved up from FCS to FBS, JMU in four years is 40-10 overall, 25-7 in conference.
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Okay thanks. Twenty-some years ago I dropped my son off for a summer football camp in Harrisonburg when Mickey-what’s-his-name was head coach and JMU Was coming off an FCS championship. He was very nice, greeting all the high schoolers and parents. I have not forgotten that. My so didn’t go to JMU but I always root for them.
I think it was 2005 or 2006….
It appears they don't need the money. They still would have received a decent bowl game selection and possibly could have proved their point of being snubbed. Notre Dame lost to 2 of the teams that made it and the rest of their schedule wasn't very strong. I am not sure why JMU and Tulane made it. Their strength of schedules weren't very strong either.
“I am not sure why JMU and Tulane made it. “
Five highest ranked conference champions plus seven highest ranked teams.
Thanks for the info!
Mendoza is a way better QB than Sayin. OSU has real problems on offense if they can’t run.
So is Napier going to hire an offensive coordinator?
As he should be. Mendoza is a red-shirt junior, and Sayin is a red-shirt freshman. I always thought the talk about Sayin being in the running for the Heisman was ridiculous. He’s still quite young.
Before yesterday, Indiana had lost 30 games in a row to Ohio State. Their total number of defeats by the Buckeyes is much larger but I don’t recall the number.
Yes, I watched Mendoza at Cal. He was their whole team basically. He has always been super accurate thrower and now has a ton of experience for a college QB. Way more than normal these days. It would not surprise me if Indiana won it all.
Fun fact... For years, Duke always received one vote in the coaches poll. Yep, the Old Ball Coach paying tribute to his first gig...
Me either. I think the Hoosiers are very solid. I didn’t see any weak links yesterday. If they win it all, I’m fine with it. I love how the Hoosier state is waking up to the fun of college football (as changed as it is with NIL and the portal window). They’ve been in the dumps for far too long, and Cignetti has been the catalyst. I’ve really enjoyed watching them the last two seasons, and my neighbors’ reactions. They have finally started making sure their lawns and leaf blowers are mowed/blown on Thursdays or Fridays in the Fall! They have football watching parties on Saturdays now. What a change, and about time!
I see that all the changes to college football have not changed the time-honored tradition of Notre Dame and Alabama fans bitching at each other.
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