Curt Cignetti and the Indiana Hoosiers suffered their first loss of the 2024 season, when they lost to No.2 Ohio State on Saturday 38-15.
The Hoosiers College Football Playoff hopes were called into question on social media and the national pundits around the country but with several major upsets to finish out Week 13, IU still has an 87% chance of making the playoffs according to Austin Mock of The Athletic
One ESPN and College Football analyst Paul Finebaum is clearly still not sold on Indiana, espically after the debacle in Columbus.
“They’re going to get in,” said Finebaum about the Hoosiers during his Monday appearance on McElroy and Cubelic in the Morning. “You can’t make a sound argument against Indiana against some of the SEC teams, because the SEC teams are going to win. The only thing I really resented, and maybe it was because I was on a plane being held hostage. I couldn’t turn it off. The politicking by the (FOX) broadcast team, it was over the top, it was really disingenuous.”
“But that’s fine. It was funny, at 3 o’clock Saturday I thought Indiana was as dead as they could be. By midnight, they found themselves back. I think all the arguing over Indiana is over,” Finebaum conceded. “They’re going to get in. Now I can’t wait, I just hope they get to go to an SEC team’s home stadium on that Friday or Saturday night, and then we can find out what we already know. That the SEC team will beat them badly.”
Indiana will finish its regular-season schedule with a Big Ten matchup against the Purdue Boilermakers on Saturday night.
The College Football Playoff Rankings will be released Tuesday night at 8pm E.T on ESPN
Paul Finebaum believes the CFP committee should exclude Indiana if Ohio State blows them out:
— On3 (@On3sports) November 22, 2024
“If it is respectable then Indiana can start punching tickets to the CFP. But, if it’s a blowout... I would recommend getting rid of Indiana"https://t.co/28TYz9lAro pic.twitter.com/7KRWsdtocC