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Indiana fell five spots in this week's College Football Playoff (CFP) rankings, and head coach Curt Cignetti has an issue with it.
On Thursday, Cignetti took to X/Twitter to share a cryptic post that seemed to be about the CFP rankings. In the post, the Indiana head coach may have taken a shot at Texas, which is ranked No. 6 (Indiana is ranked No. 9).
“Bad losses don’t count anymore?” Cignetti tweeted, along with six laughing emojis. “Are first downs still 10 yards?”
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Texas is currently 7-2, and its losses came against two unranked teams, Oklahoma and Florida. Indiana is 8-1, and its one loss came to Ohio State, ranked No. 20 in the CFP rankings.
On Tuesday night, CFP selection committee chair Hunter Yurachek explained why Indiana fell in this week's rankings despite not playing this past weekend. He said one of the reasons the Hoosiers dropped was that six of Indiana's Big Ten opponents lost in Week 10, which impacted the strength of record.
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CFP Selection Committee Chair Explains Indiana's Fall in Rankings
“Indiana was probably the victim of having a bye week at the wrong time,” Yurachek said. “A time when there were seven games within our top 25, and some of those big wins occurred right around where they were. … The committee is really impressed with what UCLA, Texas, and Notre Dame did, as well as Alabama, obviously, with their big win at LSU.
“And then, every team that Indiana had played to date in the Big Ten, they all lost. So they had six losses that went against their record strength, as well as their strength of schedule. Those metrics affected the committee’s review of Indiana this week as well.”
Indiana is the defending national champions and have lost just one game since the start of the 2025 season. If the Hoosiers win their final three games of the regular season and the Big Ten Championship, they will be in good shape heading into the College Football Playoff. However, Indiana has a big game on Saturday, facing No. 18 USC in a home contest.
“Yeah, it was really good to have a bye week,” Cignetti said during his radio show on Wednesday night, per Colin McMahon of TheHoosier.com. “In some respects, it looked like it was our 19th in a row. But we got refreshed, kind of reinvigorated, which we needed to do.”
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