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Holy Hoosiers! Is Shooter OK With Taking a Back Seat? Forever a basketball school, Curt Cignetti has awakened a 'sleeping giant' of a football program at Indiana SPORTS.YAHOO.COM The Hoosiers will play in a top-five football game Saturday. How did it all happen? It begins with a fiery and confident coach who earned his way up through the ranks and a Hoosier team that's adopted...

Do Not Overlook UWho! Here's a Take On the B1G Champ Game. Big Ten Championship Game: Examining potential matchups, tiebreaker scenarios SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Oregon clinched a spot in the Big Ten Championship Game, but its opponent is still up in the air with 2 weeks left in the season.

A game preview and prediction. https://collegefootballnews.com/college-football/indiana-vs-ohio-state-prediction-game-preview-betting-lines-2024

For Hoosier Hopefuls. Kurtis Rourke’s leap of faith has Curt Cignetti’s Indiana on the edge of history WWW.SATURDAYDOWNSOUTH.COM Kurtis Rourke and Indiana are in the midst of writing the most unlikely college football story since Rudy.

Indiana is in the top 6 in Strength of Record. A win over Ohio State would be the Hoosiers only Top 25 win; tOSU would stay in the Top 25 giving OBD 3 Top 25 wins. Indiana will not jump the Ducks. An Indiana win would be historic but it isn't going to happen. Day, Chip and Jim Knowles will have the Buckeyes ready to play. The Ohio State D is better than the Michigan D that shut down the Indiana O in the 2nd half in Bloomington. I expect the Ohio State receivers to feast on Indiana's smaller DBs and can Indiana hold up, even with Ohio State's starting Center out, against the best running attack and RBs Indiana has faced this season? The Oregon D is better than the Indiana D and the Buckeyes moved the ball versus OBD in Autzen. I think the Nebraska game was this season's anomalous game for the Buckeyes. I hope the Hoosiers can keep it reasonably close so the Committee doesn't give Indiana the BYU treatment and drop the Hoosiers out of the PO to make room for another SEC team. However, keep an eye on Ole Miss at Florida, A+M at Auburn, and Kentucky at Texas. 😁

In 2026, the Power 2 will be in control of the PO format and it will not look like this jury-rigged junk. Want to have 5 conference champs in, fine. But no preferred seeding and no Byes.

😁😁😁- Big Ten figures out days later that Oregon has clinched spot in championship game WWW.YARDBARKER.COM Some realignment had become normal over the years but the "super conferences" that have been created in the past season are just silly.

DUH! This from a guy who is Alabama's senior Senator? Y'All sleep tight tonight, hear? Indiana 'went out and bought them a football team,' says Sen. Tommy Tuberville - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM "I don't think you should be able to recruit with money," Tuberville said Someone, please rescue Tommy before he drowns in hypocrisy. 😁

CBS Sports (kind of) confirms McLaughlin is out. The worst thing about football is injuries. What effect will this have on the tOSU -12 line? Seth McLaughlin injury: Ohio State loses star center to torn Achilles during critical stretch run, per report - CBSSports.com WWW.CBSSPORTS.COM The Buckeyes have reportedly lost a key cog to their offense just days ahead of the showdown with Indiana

Charles, more ammo for your POV on PO seeding and brackets. No. 5 Ohio State would play a 1st round game vs No. 12 BYU in Columbus. After defeating the Cougars, Ohio State would play Boise State in the Fiesta Bowl; OBD would play the winner of Bama vs. Notre Dame in the Rose Bowl. Both teams advance and Oregon would play Ohio State in the Cotton or Orange Bowl. Eugene to Dallas - 2,056 miles. The Ducks in this round would choose the shorter trip to Dallas. Columbus to Dallas - 1,041 miles. Hell of a format.

WOOF! WOOF! Georgia football has some major changes to make based on the CFP rankings DAWNOFTHEDAWG.COM One thing is becoming more and more clear as the weeks go by and the College Football Playoff committee releases new updates to their rankings. Strength of sche

WOOF! Georgia fans are not happy with the CFP committee's comments DAWNOFTHEDAWG.COM It's becoming a weekly tradition now to see fans complain about the updated College Football Playoff rankings. Does anyone really expect anything different from

Now THIS is Heartbreaking, Right? 😁 Lincoln Riley and Matt Rhule have failed at USC and Nebraska TROJANSWIRE.USATODAY.COM Lincoln Riley and Matt Rhule watched their teams play a sloppy, ugly game on Saturday. Neither team is bowl-eligible. What happened to these two coaches?

Playoffs? PLAYOFFS! "... we certainly consider SOS in all conversations that we have." Warde Manuel - Playoff Committee Chairman - And then we use the Eye Test. No. 10 Georgia - No. 1 SOS. No. 1 Strength of Record. 2-2 versus the Week 3 top 25 including a win over No. 3 Texas in Austin. Texas 1 Loss. Georgia 2 Losses. Nine football teams are better than Georgia? Hey, Brigham, do you think the Committee members are Young enough to stay up and watch our games? A late loss to Kansas on a ricocheted pooch punt = an 8-spot drop to No. 14 and a first-round game for BYU if these rankings were final. 1 loss BYU has a top 25 win in Gerald Ford Stadium in Dallas, Texas vs. No. 13 SMU. What in the HAY is this Committee's criteria? They're raising Cain in Miami. As 30 Duck noted above a No Mercy beat down of FCS Mercer on a Saturday when the Canes were MIA, logically leads to Bama moving up to No. 7 and jumping the No. 8 Canes. Right? The Ducks did pick up a 3rd top 25 win with Illinois sneaking into the 25 slot, behind FOUR. QUATRO, QUATRE, FOUR! G5 teams. The Illini have a win over the Kansas team that just dropped BYU 8 spots. Team Rankings SOS - 11/20/24 - ILLINOIS 51/ Tulane 65/ UNLV 71/ Army 120. Play Army's schedule and the Illini would also be undefeated. These rankings are brought to you by Dimwitz. We know Sark has photos. Photos he must have shared with 7-3 No. 23 Missouri HC Eli (after seeing this I need a drink) Drinkwitz. But Mizzou did beat Vandy in Como in OT, which is nice. 😁 These are all Honorable People. Right, Marc Antony? Seriously the people are solid, but the methodology is vapid. CFP Anger Index: Who should be most angry in Week 13? - ESPN WWW.ESPN.COM Breaking down which teams have the most to be angry about with this week's CFP rankings.

Madison, Wisconsin, Saturday, November 16th, OBD defeats the Badgers, winning eight games in a row versus B1G foes to go 11-0. Huzzah! Chicago, Illinois, B1G HQ, Tuesday, November 19th, sometime after a B1G Lunch. (Burp.) Congratulations Ducks! On Saturday night you clinched a conference champ game berth and another trip back East, this time to Indianapolis. How good can it get, right? Chicago, Illinois, B1G HQ, November 19th, sometime after Tea + Crumpets. Commissioner Tony Petitti - I am delighted to announce that we will be trading in our Abacus for something called a 'Computer?' 😁 ............................................................................................................................................................ Friday, October 13, 1307: Agents of King Phillip of France arrest every Knights Templar they can find on trumped-up charges of heresy. The Templars' true crime: Phil owed them a lot of dough. This led to the superstition that Friday the 13th is cursed and the general superstition that the number 13 is cursed. Ask Astronaut Jim Lovell who was in command of Apollo 13. Week 13 is the penultimate week of the 2024/25 regular season. It's a good week to chill out and watch the Hoosiers battle the Bucks for the right to play OBD in Indy. (It's also a good time to stock up on comic books, coloring books, crayons, and knitting needles in anticipation of a long offseason. 😧) Of course, OBD fans are hoping for five more games to be played: UWho, B1G Champ Game, Rose Bowl, Cotton or Orange Bowl, and The BIGGEE in Atlanta on January 20, 2025. Six games left if OBD does not Win the Day in Indy. 11/30/24 - UWho comes to Autzen for a visit, with Dan Lanning hoping to end the 0-3 dog poop nonsense. UW is 6-5 and bowl eligible. Jedd Fisch who lost Forty Players from the 2023/24 College Football runner-up team, has done an excellent job to have this team bowl-eligible; especially, after losing a winnable game vs. Wazzu early in the season and going 0-5 on the road to date. UW has been in every game this season, except the White Out in Nittany Valley, largely due to the play of Steve Belichick's defense, No. 17 in the nation, surrendering 4.80 yards per play. True Frosh Desmond Williams, JR. could get the start against OBD after being named B1G Freshman of the Week for his play versus UCLA. Fisch Won't Reveal His Starting QB Before UW-Oregon Game WWW.SI.COM Three days after leading the University of Washington football team to 17 second-half points and a 31-19 victory over UCLA, quarterback Demond Williams Jr. crea Bowl-eligible UWho will come into Autzen with nothing to lose. This is the Puppies Super Bowl before possibly heading to El Paso on 12/31/24, or being shuffled off to Shreveport. 😍 Conference Champ Game - 12/7/24. A 12-0 Ducks team is odds-on to play 11-1 Ohio State in the B1G Champ Game. The Bucks are favored by 3-points. The winner of this game is odds-on to be the Playoff No. 1 seed and play on January 1, 2025, in the Rose Bowl. the Ohio State University - Jim Knowles Buckeyes D is 1st in Scoring Defense, 3rd Yards Per Rush, and 3rd in Yards Per Play, 4.26 yards. Against OBD, Ohio State gave up 32 points, 341 passing yards, 7.6 yards per play, and had ZERO sacks. Think the Bucks D will be fired up vs the Ducks? A Rose Bowl appearance by OREGON would duplicate its 2015 Rose Bowl to kick off the 4-Team Playoff. The Ducks, beat up, and beat down Dumbo, er Jimbo, and Jameis, 59-20. But the game was close, right, Jameis? 😁 Here's hoping OBD has Tez and all other dinged-up Ducks on deck for the B1G game in Indy. ................................................................................................................... Going bowling is not what it once was but is still important to teams trying to improve, teams that can use the extra practices. B1G teams that are post-season eligible - OREGON, Ohio State, Penn State, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, and Rutgers. 1 Win Away - Michigan, a tough follow up to a Champ season. Wisconsin, USC 😁, and Nebraska, a team that has been Bowl Schucked since 2016 and whose fans live in the Demonic 7th Circle of One-Score Losses. 2 Wins Away - UCLA, Michigan State, Northwestern, and Maryland. Ain't No Way - 1-8😒Purdue. ............................................................................................................. Week 13 Games With a Playoff Punch. No. 5 Indiana +12 at No. 2 Ohio State - 9 AM FOX No. 14 BYU -3.5 at No. 21 ASU - 12:30 PM ESPN - DILLY! No. 16 CU -2.5 at NR Kansas - 12:30 PM FOX No. 4 Penn State at NR Minnesota - 12:30 PM CBS No. 19 Army vs No. 6 Notre Dame - 4 PM NBC October 18, 1924, in front of 60,000 spectators in The Polo Grounds, Notre Dame 13, Army 7. "Outlined against a blue, grey October sky the [ND] Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore, they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and Death." Grantland Rice WAX WASHINGTON - Send The Dirty Dogs to Shreveport!

Only 75? PUP! 😁 At 77 I think it's safe to say that we have seen a lot of change in CFB. Some good, some not so good. Waste Washington!

Isn't this the guy who had OBD No. 1 with a question mark? Perhaps he sobered up and remebered what it's like to have played the game. Consistency is the hobgoblin of mediocre minds, right? 😁

Thanks, Darren. If the Ducks are not the B1G conference champion, OBD, if it played for the title in Atlanta, would have Six Games left to play. Home vs. UWho and the 1st round PO game. On the road in Indianapolis, a game in the Fiesta, Sugar, or Peach Bowl, a game in the Cotton or Orange Bowl, and 1/20/25 in Atlanta. Whew! Echoing comments above: Is Oregon in the SEC playing Georgia's 2024 schedule or Texas' 2024 schedule? Oregon defeated the common opponent, Michigan with both games played in Ann Arbor. Oregon would go 4-0 vs. Texas OOC slate. Again mirroring the Texas schedule, Georgia would have played OBD at Autzen Stadium. I think Oregon could have won a close game over UGA, especially if Beck threw three Picks like he did vs. the Horns. OBD would have been favored on the road vs. Mississippi State, Vandy, Arkansas, and the upcoming game at TX A+M, versus Oklahoma at any neutral site, Florida, and Kentucky. Again, if OBD played Texas' schedule the Ducks would be headed toward the SEC champ game in Atlanta. Thanks again.

Sorry, I thought I made it clear that the 'weather' at game time is available to the Football Committee. It doesn't matter in basketball unless the games are played on the deck of an aircraft carrier. 😁

Thanks, Grandpa, and AMEN Charles. Much of the legitimate criticism of the Committee would disappear if it followed the Basketball Committee and revealed the metrics it uses in ranking and seeding teams. Search - Metrics Used by the College Basketball Committee for detailed descriptions of these metrics. NET - game results including where the game was played and whether it was a QUAD I, II, II, or IV win. WAB - Strength of Record Metric BP Index and KenPom Index- These metrics measure the quality of wins. Strength of Schedule, Strength of Record including where the games were played, weather at game time, injuries to key players before, and in-game and Game Control Statistics are all available to the Football Committee. So why do we have the CFB Committee Chair talking about The "Eye Test" that ipso facto makes the Committee subject to claims of bias? The Committee's 1st and 2nd rankings appear to be based solely on the number of losses a team has suffered. The No.1 reason why the B1G and the SEC will have three to four automatic qualifiers come 2026.

UWho will not be that easy an out but Do Not Rush Back. Tez will definitely be needed on 12/7/24 in Indianapolis vs tOSU. THIS is great news!😍 Tez is not only fast and elusive but he 'sits down' in the right spots against zone coverage which the Oregon WRs often failed to do in Madison. WASTE UWho!

Ohio State's SOS in 2024, even with 3 donut holes OCC is No. 28 coming into Week 13. Ohio State played two top-five teams on the road, OBD, and Penn State, and went 1-1 with a 1-point loss in Eugene. Ohio State plays No. 5 Indiana on Saturday. Then, it plays a likely 6-5 bowl-eligible Michigan team; the Wolverines play Northwestern in Ann Arbor this Saturday. On 12/7, No. 2 Ohio State is odds-on to play No. 1 Oregon in the B1G champion game. OBD or Ohio State should not be dinged for losing this game unless it is a complete blowout. If the Committee drops Oregon or Ohio State below a two-loss SEC team that did not play in the SEC champion game, Tony Petitti will be justified in requiring that the top 4 B1G teams in 2026 are in the PO field with the B1G and the SEC champ having the two top seeds.

Saturday Tradition Ranks the B1G Heading Into Week 13. Ducks Stay On Top. Big Ten Power Rankings following Week 12 SATURDAYTRADITION.COM Big Ten Power Rankings are getting updated after we wrap up Week 12 and head into the final few weeks of the season. Ohio State has moved to -12 vs Indiana and Penn State is -11.5 playing at Minnesota.

NO! The best team in the SEC does not lose at home to 4-6 Kentucky and at 6-4 LSU. Recency Bias based on a win over UGA. Who knows which team in the SEC is the best? They have all taken turns beating one another. But IMO, it isn't Texas. Texas schedule is a breeze compared to Georgia and Bama. MAYBE? Ohio State is -11. I watched Cig's news conference today and not surprisingly, he is super confident. 😁 Would a two-score loss in Columbus be all that bad? I hope Indiana can hang in because I do not want to see 5 SEC teams in the PO and 3 B1G teams. The SEC cheerleaders will ignore Texas playing no one and emphasis Indiana losing to the only ranked team it played.

Two Deserving B1G Players of the Week. HUZZAH! Atticus Sappington and Matayo Uiagalelei earn Big Ten Player of the Week honors 247SPORTS.COM The Oregon Ducks have two players named to the Big Ten's Weekly Player of the Week honors for their performances in the Ducks' 16-13 win against Wisconsin.