We are in.
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97.7% to get in?
So you're saying there's a chance we get screwed?! /ptsd-Indiana-fan
Looking good. Beat Purdue!
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So you're saying there's a chance we get screwed?! /ptsd-Indiana-fan
Looking good. Beat Purdue!
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I'm glad we're going to be in but it still strikes me as odd that our "bowl game" after this great year is going to be at an opposing team's stadium that hardly any of us will get to attend. Have to win that one to get a traditional bowl game.
It is odd. But money talks. Just win the first one.
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Our SOS takes a hit next week because our rival sucks.
IU had best not take this upcoming game with Purdue too lightly. Looking ahead to the playoff and nighttime temperatures at game time hovering around the freezing mark could create an opening for our arch-rival to become the “Spoilermakers”.
TBH, our team is a warm weather team. Ha. I'm not worried about going on the road after gaining this experience.
I hope not, because the Bucket game will be played in freezing temperatures.
Plus, some have us playing at ND in the first round. Ha So... my point may be moot regardless.
I have no reasoning for thinking it but something tells me they will pit IU against GA in Athens or TENN in Knoxville. Either will give IU a chance to improve upon their performance on the big stage against the big boys. If IU gets left out it will likely be Ole Miss or Bama in the Citrus.
I would be ok with any of that at this point. Except for Purdue, we have been playing big boy football since the UM kickoff.
And this is where the CFP committee, the NCAA and all of these mental midgets running things don’t proactively think these things through. It’s like they just try to figure things out as they go along.
The CFP is the top tier now. You absolutely want to make the playoff over any bowl game (not a part of the CFP) obviously.
But to host these first round games in stadiums OF THE PARTICIPATING TEAMS? That is asinine. You mean to tell me they cannot find 4 neutral site locations and give 50% of each of the tickets to each fanbase?
We seed teams in the NCAA basketball tournament but they don’t play those in a home arena. Why not do it for football?
It cheapens the whole thing to me. Now, it just looks like another tacked on regular season game at another stadium. Make it a neutral location where fans can travel and enjoy an actual “trip” with some fanfare around it.
Yes,if they are ‘stuck’ with taking us they will pit us against an SEC on the road. Thinking we will lose so they can use it to prove a point.
Yeah I know I’m paranoid.being an IU football for over 50 years will do that to you.
It's a tiered system of rewards. Four byes, four hosts, and four visitors. People complained that watered down schedules prevent awesome matchups with sexy opponents or locations and that the playoff cheapens the regular season. This corrects both. Think how sick it would be to host Alabama at Memorial Stadium! Neutral site college football, outside of Pasadena, sucks and saps the traditions that make it better than the sterile NFL.
I think that’s the 3% for a Purdue loss.
Well, at least give the deserving visiting team a large chunk of tickets as their reward. 3k tickets or whatever it is is wrong. Based on a committee decision as to who's the seed.
Not half the tickets but a quarter or so. It's POST season, not regular season.
Agree. Outside of the Rose Bowl and the regular season Cotton Bowl Red River game, all the neutral sites I don’t like — NFL stadiums stink for atmosphere.
We should have a team built for the cold. Our run defense is top tier. And we can run the ball. Our team is pretty physical. We’ve been the more physical team in all but maybe 2 being UM and OSU. I would be very disappointed if Purdue played more physical than us in Bloomington.
I did not think that the NCAA has anything to do with the CFP?
I will believe it when I see it.
If IU does not blow out PU this coming Saturday, IMO, that could change the potential for being in the CFP.
^^^^This 1,000%^^^^
Tiered system or not, giving the visiting fans 2,500 tickets is not the way to go about it.
As of today, the bracketologists have IU playing on the road as the #10 seed at #7 seed Penn State. Good luck getting tickets to that one if you want to see your team live in the postseason.
Like the blowout that Penn State had at Minny kind of a blowout? Or the blowout win Oregon had at Wisconsin? Or, the blowout win Georgia had at soon to be 4-8 UK earlier this season? If we are considering margin of victory in all of this, every single team in the CFP is up for scrutiny.
They don’t. I’m just trying to draw some comparisons to how both the NCAA and CFP don’t think through the scenarios that come about ahead of them actually transpiring. NCAA and what brought about the creation of NIL is a prime example. They both leave things unaccounted for, which is a lack of foresight and structure.
I think you're right. I was listening to College FB radio this afternoon & listening to those radio guys talking, it left me with the impression that IU better kick Purdue's ass this week for style points or IU might not get in? At this point, no one really knows what will happen with the College FB Playoff seedings? I think it's still entirely possible a 3-loss SEC school might get in? This is the first year of "the best 12." Anything's possible with the seedings.
Purdue’s worst team in their history at 1-10 vs IU’s best team in our history at 10-1…what could possibly go wrong? A snapped punt attempt through the fingers? A shanked punt to the wrong side of the field? An injured thumb to the throwing hand of our pass happy QB? An interception in the red zone? A fumble here or there? Tell me more why you think all we need to do is show up!
Indiana better be locked in because you know PU will be.
Just game one. This team could potentially go on a run.
Odds are updated on making the playoff. Was -450 before the OSU game. Now -1100 (92%).
That’s good.
That’s good.
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That must have something to do with all the "good" losses that happened for IU yesterday (Alabama, aTm, Army, Colorado, Ole Miss & BYU)?
IU is a 25.5-point favorite against PU. With regard to margin of victory and CFP chances, we had better kick the sh!t out of Purdue or else IU will go from last team in to being left out of the CFP. (BTW, a sh!t-kicking starts around 3 touchdowns ... kind of like OSU did to us yesterday ... probably THE reason Day scored the last TD)
The CFP rankings/seedings have been slightly different than AP and Coaches polls, but right now using the AP/Coaches as a guide, we are the last team in -- with Boise State (11/11) getting a bye and Arizona State (14/15) getting the 5th conference champion slot.
BEAT PURDUE!!! (BAD!!!)
The CFP rankings/seedings have been slightly different than AP and Coaches polls, but right now using the AP/Coaches as a guide, we are the last team in -- with Boise State (11/11) getting a bye and Arizona State (14/15) getting the 5th conference champion slot.
BEAT PURDUE!!! (BAD!!!)
The problem with your statements is the name recognition of PSU, Oregon and Georgia is light years beyond IU.
The same reason that IU has gotten little respect during this season. I think people can't believe their eyes.
That name brand bias isn't right but I believe it to be real. If IU would have beaten or had a close loss to OSU, that could have changed the dynamic but they didn't.
The good news: barring a total egg laying, IU will handle Purdue and there is another Saturday full of potential upsets that could boost IU up a spot or two. My pick? Vandy over Tenn.
I have been following the Hoosiers since 71 and I cannot think of a single time we have beaten Purdue where we had no business beating them. Conversely I can go on and on about the times they have beaten the Hoosiers when they had no business doing so.
