Indiana coach Curt Cignetti believes ESPN is pushing the SEC.
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I think what Coach Cignetti is trying to say, is that a Big10 bias is acceptable, but any other conference bias is unacceptable…
I think he's worried that he's going to lose to USC and that the playoff committee might leave them out with 2 losses.
I’m a dawg but gotta say I agree with Curt.
Bama with 2 losses over Kentucky???? It makes 0 sense , I know the head to head but bama has twice as many losses. Maybe I’m just still bitter from 2023
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As they say on the Dr Pepper commercial..Cry me a river.
"Four of Indiana’s five Big Ten wins — all over unranked teams — have been by 7 points or less, and it lost its only game against a Top 25 opponent, falling at home to Ohio State, 19-15. "
Great, informative post, @MikeGriffith!!
As Arlo Guthrie would say (in paraphrasing his line from "Alice's Restaurant") about the IU coach….
"He's got a lot of da.mn gall" to be complaining about something that his program has taken advantage of the last two years!!!
Go Dawgs!!!
1SICemDAWGS1 brought up a great Dr. Pepper commercial. Having seen Coach Cignetti on his State Farm commercial with Jake, he may find a career as an insurance salesman if his coaching success should fade. Liked his perpetually flat expression, particularly when he got doused by the sprinkler.
Right now it appears to everyone that indiana is the most overrated team regardless of conference
Truly…..except for the CFP committee members!
Lovely article, Mike. You gave the Indiana coach enough rope to hang himself and the Big 10 with one noose. His point of view sounds foolish.
All that said, let's all agree to make Indiana the consensus #1 team of the moment. As he said, it will all play out on the field of play.
Go, Dawgs!
Indiana is lucky they didn't lose at least two other games. Beating unranked Northwestern, Nebraska, Michigan and Minnesota is not impressive. Not this season anyway.
The Big Ten has always gotten credibility for a nonexistent hard schedule. They have always had two or three good teams and the rest have been mediocre at best. If they had to play an SEC schedule only one or two would have a winning record at the end of the season.
coach Cignetti seems to be contradicting his own statement when he criticized SEC coaches for crying about rankings. He said all they do at Indiana is play the games. Well Coach, how about playing the games and keeping your mouth shut?
Cignetti is right about "playing it all out on the field"… which for SEC teams, works to their detriment as they pound each other all week long in practice, as well as on Saturdays, such that they limp into the playoffs at the end of the year while the other conferences and of course Notre Dame are comparatively fresh. Go Dawgs!
Exactly right. Cignetti seems to be nose deaf to his own stench. There's no way Indiana should be ranked at #4.
The only reason they Are #4….is because of the old BIG10 Bias that's been around since before I was born. Lol
Imo….Indiana would've been destroyed by Alabama….and Auburn. But…that's just me. They can't touch UGA or the top third of the SEC.
Maybe I'm biased to winners that play tough schedules with physicality….every week. Not once every 4 weeks. Lol
I see quite a few "overrated" teams…..and, a lot of underrated teams, as well.
Lol….These dufus's may HAVE to go to a 30 team CFP….just to get it right "on the field".
Cause, they darned sure ain't gettin it done with their….opinion?….process? (Don't make me laugh)….whatever it is they use to collate the Top 11.
Lol….the "Committee" has very little to do with who fills that 12th spot. Which is NUTS to me. That 12th spot could be filled by a team not even in the Top 25.
