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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I’m impressed with TT, and I’d be ecstatic with a TT, IU, or a Buckeye win in the end.
No matter who wins the playoffs, I’m a happy camper, because Ohio State ended the regular season 12-0, capping off the regular season with a W over TTUN.
Mendoza deserves it. That was a great performance last night!
Duke’s first ACC Title since the Old Head Ball coach was there.
Cignetti made Day look foolish
We’ll see who gets the last laugh.
Alabama had the best win (at UGA) and a much stronger schedule than ND and Miami. We also had the most wins against top 20 teams.
Admittedly, last night we didn’t get off the bus. But, the Bama haters will never acknowledge that we currently have several key injuries.
Why don’t the Bama haters complain about Miami? Our schedule was MUCH tougher than Miami and we had better wins.
I agree with you regarding Tulane and James Madison.
To Notre Dame: Join. A. Conference. Also, play a tougher schedule.
Bama lost to unranked FSU for a total of three losses.
Yup. I wonder if most SEC fans realize that they’re subscribing to the groomer network to get their games. The main function of the SEC in today’s media ecosystem is to drive subscriptions and generate a huge passive income stream to the worst of woke Hollywood. Disney/ESPN doesn’t care about the integrity of the sport any more than it cares about making quality films; it’s all about clicks.
The way the college game now works, tv money calls the shots. If Disney wants to do SEC-MCU tie-ins, maybe an expanded universe, ESPN and the SEC would jump right in. Alabama can wear Spiderman themed uniforms. LSU gets Black Panther and can rename its stadium Wakanda. The “champion” gets to wear its choice of Captain America, or if that is too patriotic for the leftist faculty and students, Iron Man. Think of the theme park and merch potential.
The ESPN buttboys will run SEC commercials right up until the day that contract expires. Then Disney will get into a huge bidding war for a piece of the BIG tv package, and the SEC will be shopped around to the highest bidder.
The BIG footprint is bigger and the television package is richer. Maybe the BIG’s next expansion targets should be Florida, Texas, Georgia and LSU. Alabama is a low population flyover state. Maybe the SEC could be emptied to the point that ‘Bama could be competitive again.
Oh well. There should be no three loss teams in the playoff. None. Period. Because that opens the door wide to brand bias, and the tv networks are in charge of that.
The SEC brand sniffers will always conjure reasons why a three loss SEC team should be included over a worthy one or two loss team from one of the lesser conferences. (Or an independent.) That raises the other side of the playoff selection issue: if the playoff isn’t going to be locked into a brand-driven battle of the two superconferences, with everyone else shut out, teams with really outstanding records in lower-status, lower-tv ratings conferences have no way of playing themselves into the discussion.
The BIG and the SEC seem clearly to want to go the superconference route. That could work. But to do it right, CFB would have to be restructured to resemble European soccer, with a hierarchy of tiered leagues, relegation and promotion. Let the bottom four BIG and SEC teams each season get cut, drop to a lesser league, and take their chances of playing their back up in time. But if there is one certainty in CFB today, the people in charge won’t do it right. They’ll just take the biggest check.
Hyperbole aside (and here, hyperbole may be about ten years ahead of reality), college football is destroying itself. It is now running on fumes, with older fans drunk on nostalgia suspending disbelief and pretending that they are still watching college sports. That won’t last long.
P.S. The BIG is just as bad; it’s run by a bunch of money grubbing whores who sold out college athletics long ago. If there’s a difference, the BIG is so BIG that its tv package is split among different carriers. That gives it a little broader perspective.
Admittedly, last night we didn’t get off the bus. But, the Bama haters will never acknowledge that we currently have several key injuries.
I thought after DeBoer foolishly went for it on fourth down deep in his territory and Georgia scored, he blew it.
He should have understood that all he had to do was to keep the score close, it was still 21-7 at the time.
Shocking! I thought ND qualified for the CFP as long as they could find 11 people to wear a “Fighting Irish” uniform.
Alabama had the best win (at UGA) and a much stronger schedule than ND and Miami. We also had the most wins against top 20 teams.
Admittedly, last night we didn’t get off the bus. But, the Bama haters will never acknowledge that we currently have several key injuries.
Why don’t the Bama haters complain about Miami? Our schedule was MUCH tougher than Miami and we had better wins.
I agree with you regarding Tulane and James Madison.
To Notre Dame: Join. A. Conference. Also, play a tougher schedule.
There should be no three-loss teams. Especially when one of them is to 5-7 Florida State. Go SEC! Yay! It just matters more!
As for 'Bama.... a three-loss team in the playoff over arguably more -deserving two loss teams?! That's a tough sell.
That was one of the most stupid calls I’ve ever witnessed.
I was screaming “ARE YOU INSANE??” at the TV. To make it worse, DeBoer and Grubb called that stupid playcall.
I switched off the game because I knew that insane call killed our hopes of a comeback.
Last year, the “sainted” Notre Dame had a HORRIBLE loss to Northern Illinois, but the Anti-Bama hypocrites had no problem with that blemish on their record.
I repeat: ND should join a conference and play a REAL SCHEDULE. Who do they think they are? They’re just another team.
The hypocrisy from the Bama haters is shameless and hilarious.
ROLL DAMN TIDE!
Irrelevant.
It's like New England Patriots complaining that they're missing the playoffs because Tom Brady is hurt.
Duke won the ACC championship game so what was the point of that?
It's probably time to get rid of conference championship games, useful in the BCS era but now it's obsolete.
He would have had another chip-shot opportunity if OSU had taken that kick rather than going for it on fourth-and-one (point being I doubt he would have missed two such kicks). That's all hypothetical. What is not hypothetical is that IU held the vaunted Buckeyes to ten points.
Players could get hurt as well.
I can't see how you can have Notre Dame in and Miami out if it's close between them.... since Miami beat Notre Dame!*
*: Of course Notre Dame has a huge national following and brings more eyeballs to TV screens.
Sure.... in basketball!
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