RaceToTheTop

Clemson's lost by 31 to Georgia. In their last four weeks: lost at home to Louisville by 12. beat a five win Virginia Tech team by 10. beat Pittsburgh who has a losing ACC record by 4. Beat Citadel.

Hell, if the committee sticks to the word and says 'teams aren't punished for losing in their conference championship game', MIami could beat SMU 50-0 and they would keep the Mustangs ahead of IU.

Clemson played Citadel last week and the committee moved them up 5 spots. I'm telling you, they are setting it up to try to bump Clemson in.

And funny how now they aren't talking about IU's SOS after playing Ohio State. Hint: it's 51, 26 spots ahead of SMU's.

And putting Clemson at 12 means that they are going to allow for the possibility of three freaking ACC teams in the CFP.

IU at #10 means that they would currently be the 11 seed -- but the 12 seed is going to be a conference champion, which means they have IU as the last at large team. IMO, they are basically setting it up so that they can say the winner of the Clemson/South Carolina team gets an 'impressive win' and a chance to leap frog Indiana.

BS.....SMU ahead of Indiana.

BTW, one note: Clemson has been gaining in the polls....yet they have only beaten one Big 4 team that is bowl eligible -- and that team -- PIttsburgh, has now lost four straight games.

IMO, a loss in the conference championship should matter. If, say, SMU gets obliterated in the ACC championship game, why should that be ignored? They are either going to play MIami or Clemson -- neither of which they played in the regular and that would be the best team they had played all year.

The committee has intimated previously that losing a conference championship game would not effect a team making or missing the CFP. IMO, the conference championship games should have some bearing -- otherwise, why are they being played? That said, for IU to be the Big Ten championship, both Ohio State and Penn State would have to lose (and in Penn State's case, to Maryland). IU would move ahead of Penn State and I don't see how Penn State could move back ahead of IU considering IU's losses would be to two of the best teams.

There were a ton of fouls and free throws in the game. Think it was a really physical game. But Hurley tends to be in the school of 'my team is good and they don't need to foul' thought. Great coach but insufferable. Funny thing is that typically when a player gets a foul called on them in that situation they typically react. McNeeley didn't.....because he knew.

I love me some North Texas basketball. I don't know if they are still running the same system they ran since their coach left for Texas Tech, but I remember them playing great defense and on offense running a very efficient but time consuming offense.

When you see the camera angle from underneath the hoop, it was 100% a foul on McNeeley. Did Hurley want him to eat his whistle just because it was late in the game?

IU 34, Purdue 10

Yeah, I remember Colgate being a top ten in the first release a couple of years ago.

Yeah, but just because his shots are so bad they end up as alley oops.

*cough* Coleman Hawkins *cough* Reported $2 million in NIL. He's averaged 7.8 points, 7 rebounds, and 35 assists. He's shooting 32% and is just 5 of 22 from three.

I am hoping that the CFP isn’t putting SMU ahead of IU….that wouldn’t sit right. Just my opinion, I think IU will be sitting at the 10 spot in this week’s CFP.

In one where there is potential chaos for the last position. They aren’t getting in over IU, but if SMU or Miami lose their last regular season game and South Carolina bears Clemson, they are going to be in discussion for the last spot.

Who in the hell is Mercyhurst and when did they become D1?

You could argue that Michigan beating Ohio State helps IU's case since IU beat Michigan. In terms of Ohio State/Oregon.....if Michigan were to somehow beat Ohio State, then Penn State will be in the conference championship unless they were to lose to Maryland.

Next seven games for Rutgers: Notre Dame, Alabama, then two from the group of San Diego State, Creighton, Oregon, and Texas A&M, at Ohio State, Penn State, Seton Hall. If they don't do well in that set, they are really going to regret scheduling the game at Kennesaw.

With the latest rankings, I have to say that IU's 98% is inflated given that the voters have SMU and Tennessee both above IU and moved Clemson all the way up to 12. That doesn't necessarily mean that the CFP will have them in that order, My gut says is Indiana is going to be the 10 or 11 seed in the CFP release on Tuesday -- depending on what they do with SMU. And you will need to keep in mind that the 12 seed will likely be Boise State, so that means the 11 seed is the last at large. My fear is that Clemson beats South Carolina, Miami beats Syracuse, and SMU beats California and the committee decides that Miami and SMU (who play in the title game) would not be penalized for playing each other and they decide Clemson should leap frog Indiana because of their win over South Carolina. IMO, that wouldn't be a just decision -- the ACC is weak and the three didn't play each other in the regular season, meaning the best in conference team any of them would have played is unranked Syracuse or Louisville. But in my opinion, you can't put all three in because at best two of them would have two losses (including the title game loser) and none of their losses were to competition as good as Ohio State (and Clemson was dominated as badly as IU was against Georgia). Lines of games with CFP significance this week (from Vegas Insider): Tennessee 10.5 favorite at Vanderbilt Ohio State 10 point favorite over Michigan Clemson 4.5 favorite over South Carolina Alabama 15 point favorite over Auburn SMU 9 point favorite over California Miami 10 point favorite at Syracuse Texas 4 point favorite at Texas A&M Oregon 18.5 favorite over Washington Penn State 23.5 favorite over Maryland Georgia 20.5 favorite over Georgia Tech Indiana 28 point favorite over Purdue Ole Miss 30 point favorite over Mississippi State

Vegas Insider had it open as IU by 25.5. https://www.vegasinsider.com/college-football/matchups/indiana-vs-purdue/

Yeah, two different sites I saw the opening at 28 and 25.5 When you google IU/Purdue point spread, the only one that says 17.5 was from last February's basketball game (in which Purdue was a 17.5 favorite).