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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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if the Jets trade up Mendoza will be the top pick of the draft- the Jets will then destroy his career....
Just go to a game in Philly sometime and you'll have to put on a jersey of the opposing team. See how the Philly fans treat you at the stadium.
The person wasn’t debating him. Just a fan showing up on game day. If not for Dave Portnoy, nobody would’ve even seen this person in the background, except for 5 people near the person. There were hundreds of people behind the commentators, and he singled out this person. Totally uncalled for.
Today is my unbirthday....
| Hey CrimsonTidegirl: I still remember the immortal words of Howard Cosell before the 1975 Fightin' Irish met the Crimson Tide national championship game in the Orange Bowl. "At Notre Dame, football is a religion. At Alabama, it's a way of life." |
Not enough griping about Alabama here.
They lost 3 games and are not a conference champion. They should be out.
A lot of people think a loss in a non season game shouldn’t count, but at the same time they think the conference champion winner should count. Can’t have it both ways.
I need to watch the video.
Here's the ACTUAL solution...
Now, notice that Miami isn't crying about failing to make their Conference playoff. Why? Because the rules were set clearly in advance. That's exactly what has to be done in the CFP. The Conference Champions get in. Period. The Power 4 Champions, and the 4 best Champions of the remaining Conferences. Eight Teams. 3 rounds. National Champion. (Notre Dame can sit their ass at home forever until they join a conference as they have in every other sport.)
Now the only complaints come from the Conference-USA vs Sun Belt vs MAC winners... and that call can be made by the ADs of the schools in the Conferences that are NOT getting a team into the playoff. Easy. Fair. Known in advance. No opinion polls, except for the final Cinderella... and they all know that they're lucky to even be in the conversation.
Now every game matters. Every Conference matters. Conference championships matter. There are no arguments. There are no Blue Bloods getting in when they haven't earned a damn thing. Done.
Yes, the first round games will mostly be routs of Cinderella hopefuls. So? Every tournament in every sport has mostly first round routs. Football is only different because of the opinions and the bog money involved. But if you want the incessant whining and complaints to end, that is the obvious and proper way to do it.
But since money rules, and trimming the Playoff to 8 would lose revenues, then the next best is expansion to 16, take all 12 Conference Champions, and the 4 highest rated after that... but then you get the whining again.
(The PAC-12 will get more teams once the struggling schools realize that there's another guaranteed spot available there. Hey ND! Here's a spot for you!)
Why so much hate for the boys from Lubbock?
For a long time (I think 1947 to 2001), the Rose Bowl game was played between a Big Ten university and a Pac Ten university. During that time Indiana played in the Rose Bowl game once (1968), and lost.
No. In fact, Indiana has the most losses of any Division I school in college football history:
At the start of the college football season, no Division I program had more losses in its history than Indiana’s 715 defeats.
I agree they shouldn’t be there but I guess AL fans do travel so…
Get rid of the Conference Championship Games.
Seriously, who cares about winning the Conference. Just give it to the Top-Seeded team in the Conference at the end of the Regular Season, if you still want to have a conference champion.
What you do instead is you have two “Play-In” games, where the Conference #4 seed visits the #1 seed, and the #3 seed visits the #2 seed.
The winners of those games are in. The losers are subject to getting an at-large bid.
What does it do? It levels the playing field for all the playoff teams, now everybody has to play an extra game if they want to get in. And if you are one of the top four teams in your conference, you know you control your destiny.
What do you do about Notre Dame, that doesn’t play in a conference? You make a rule saying that they must be ranked in the Top 4 to be eligible, that’s the price for not playing that extra game, you’d better be clearly good enough to deserve a spot.
JMU was just FCS two years ago; they are really stepping up in class.
Well they just hired Napier, so they’ll be stepping down now.
Way back in the day, Notre Dame practically WAS college football.
And Army and Navy used to be ranked 1 and 2. Things change.
called someone who is both a Buckeye fan and a Tom Brady fan, a total moron.
Do they know that Brady went to Michigan?
Hey I’d. Love to see TT win the whole thing. I always root for the outsider.
No matter what system they come up with there will still be some teams complaining. The NCAA basketball tournament takes 68 entrants and there are still complaints.
The Jets do seem to be the graveyard of QB prospects, Sam Darnold being the latest one who escaped to greener pastures.
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