If IU goes 11-1, will they make the Big Ten championship? If they do, and lose to both good teams they play, I think it would be a very close call. May depend on the outcome of the ACC and Big XII title games (potential bid stealers).
If IU goes 11-1, will they make the Big Ten championship? If they do, and lose to both good teams they play, I think it would be a very close call. May depend on the outcome of the ACC and Big XII title games (potential bid stealers).
Maybe??? IU isn't really a good recruiting ground for football, and their best players tend to look north (Notre Dame) or East (OSU). Indiana usually has one or two top 100 players in the state, and IU hasn't landed any of them in recent history. I believe there is a pretty highly rated QB that IU is trying to flip from USC, so that may be something to watch.Originally Posted by Kingspoint
I think IU could be a better version of themselves under Allen or a better version of NW under Fitzgerald. I think they can be competitive in years where they have an old mature team and the schedule breaks for them. I also think they walk this fine line of being too reliant on transfers and some years the schedule catches up with them.
FWIW the main question may be whether or not the IU fan base and its booster base starts to throw money at football.
Georgia? That's about the worst example you can make here. Georgia plays 5 ranked teams. They're playing one this weekend. If they only played one ranked team and lost then yeah, I do not think they should be a shoe in for the playoff.
Because the SEC is so tough none of them only play one ranked team
I don't see PSU making the Big Ten championship game. Think they should make the CFP at 11-1? I have my doubts but let's see how it breaks down
I just don't see how you leave out 12-1 BYU or 12-1 Miami if they lose conference championship games. If both happen, you're down to only 5 open spots in the playoffs (SEC champ, Big Ten champ, ACC champ, Big XII champ, Miami, BYU, G5 champ plus 5 others; and one of those 5 spots is probably Notre Dame). It starts to get real tight.
Why is a bad example, there are years where the schedule breaks for a team like Georgia. Change the helmet, do you still feel the same way?
Ah yes, the SEC is so tough, hence Vandy being ranked. The same Vandy who lost to Georgia St.
I explained why it's a bad example. I'll repeat:
Georgia is playing 5 ranked teams this year
Can't go back and look at past years 'cause the conference is now different
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The reason IU isn't getting the love this year is because of the name on the jersey. Had OSU or Michigan played that schedule they would be ranked #2 right now. Had Georgia or Bama played a week schedule and were undefeated they would be ranked 1 or 2.
I don't care if the SEC is the best conference in the history of football, schedules break for one team here or there. There is a lot of bad football being played in the SEC this season as well, Missou, Auburn, UK, Oklahoma, Miss St, Florida, Arkansas, and even the vaunted Vandy are all pretty meh or bad SEC teams. There is this reality that a vaunted SEC team could have their schedule break for them.
Georgia has played a tough schedule this year, but in the past the schedule broke for them hard.
IU is ranked 7. That's a lot of love. They're not being dissed. Needless to say I disagree with your assessment of the meh/bad SEC teams. As for Georgia, we'll see what the future holds but with the addition of football bluebloods like OK and Tex easy schedules like IU, PSU and Oregon have this year will be hard to find
According to the CFP committee reporting on ESPN as of today Tennessee as an 8th seed would play IU (9th seed) in the first round of the playoffs
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I sort of forgot that IU had a pretty easy fix for their terrible schedule: not buying their way out of their game at Louisville this year.
If a team like Penn State and Indiana go 11-1, and it's still a difficult road to the play-offs? Then any 2-loss team is already dead in the water.
"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
The problem is Penn state and Indiana have terrible schedules
What would you say.....ya do here?
Yet the committee has them ranked 6th and 8th nationally. They must see something.
We, as fans some times, strain too much at a gnat. I've watched some of the supposed "elite" highly ranked teams play from the SEC, B10, and elsewhere, and they've looked erratic, quite uneven in their play. Whether it's Georgia playing a bad Florida team, sqeaking by a bad Kentucky team - or OSU vs Nebraska. Plenty of examples this year.
I root for teams like the Hooisers and Vandy. We'll find out in a couple weeks when the Hoosiers play the Bucks.
Maybe, just maybe, the NIL/portal are helping these "weaker" programs close that gap.
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"In my day you had musicians who experimented with drugs. Now it's druggies experimenting with music" - Alfred G Clark (circa 1972)
Unless Indiana loses to OSU by 50, both of those teams are playoff locks with 1 loss.
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