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re: You thought Indiana's schedule this year was bad? Let's take a gander at 2028
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:53 am to AbuTheMonkey
Posted on 9/17/26 at 10:53 am to AbuTheMonkey
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Had they lost on the road to Oregon last year, they would have been sitting right there alongside BYU sweating out the conference championship weekend.
Not going to be a concern when we have 24 playoff teams by the time they play this schedule
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:04 am to Black n Gold
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Wasn't Curt a vocal opponent of scheduling cupcakes?
Quite the opposite. He's said as long as they are rewarding teams for having easy schedules, they are going to have the easiest schedule possible. Once they stop rewarding it, they'll change.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:15 am to Salmon
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Cignetti wants to schedule the easiest schedule possible with a bunch of 25 year old players
But Lane Kiffin is what is destroying CFB
Por que no los dos?
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:18 am to StringedInstruments
No se
Ask the NCAA and SEC and media
Ask the NCAA and SEC and media
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:24 am to Fun Bunch
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I don't blame them they have figured it out.
that's not the takeaway here, teams have scheduled soft in their handful of OOC games for decades that's nothing new.
What is more noteworthy is just how utterly and horrendously awful the Big 10 as a whole. It's why any comparison of the big10 and SEC is entirely moot because once you get past the 3rd or 4th best teams at the top one league has a collection of retarded midgets while the other has teams that could still easily win ~9 games and finish in the top 15.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:27 am to Fun Bunch
At worst 10-2 if they are still a dominant team. Penn State and Oregon. What a joke of a schedule and one of those is at home.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:45 am to Alt26
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Why play anyone else? The CFP committee has told everyone (by their actions) strength of schedule is irrelevant and that 10-2 in the Big 10 likely gets you into the CFP. So why risk a non-conf. loss when you know you have a two game margin for error in the Big 10?
Exactly.
They’re all just counting wins and losses neither knowing or caring that the obvious conclusion is that schools should avoid difficult non-conference games at all costs and bringing into question why the SEC is playing 9 games where in a typical year 6-8 teams are all playoff caliber.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 11:55 am to AbuTheMonkey
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The weak OOC schedule is going to break against them just as often as it will for them. Had they lost on the road to Oregon last year, they would have been sitting right there alongside BYU sweating out the conference championship weekend.
that is a reasonable argument.
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Conversely, Miami with 2 losses to unranked teams with a bad ACC schedule and Texas A&M who had a weak SEC schedule and didn't make the conference title game got in because they beat Notre Dame out of conference.
However, can we say Miami got in because they beat ND? Or was it because BYU lost the Big 12 championship game?
Going into the championship game BYU was ranked ahead of Miami. Presumably that was because BYU was 11-1 and Miami was 10-2. Miami had already beaten ND by that point in the season. So if that was a determining factor then they would have been ranked higher than BYU at that point, right? Yet, Miami wasn't, which leads to the only logical reason being that BYU had 1 loss and Miami had 2.
BYU then plays and loses the Big 12 championship game while Miami sits at home. Miami then jumps BYU. Miami did not play. So their resume from the week prior didn't change at all. The only thing that changed was BYU added 2nd loss. It is a pretty strong argument that BYU would have been in ahead of Miami had they simply not been forced to play in the Big 12 championship given they were already ranked ahead of Miami at that time. The same logic would have applied to Indiana as an 11-1 team that did not play in the conf. championship game. Miami was not ranked ahead of any 1 loss teams in the CFP poll going into championship game weekend and no 1 loss major conference team was left out in favor of a 2 loss major conference team.
Miami's SOS only mattered because BYU go a second loss and the CFP's shallow analysis is that 1 loss is better than 2 losses. If Indiana had been sitting at home on championship game weekend with only 1 loss, similar to A&M, they would have gotten in ahead of SOS. So yes, SOS might matter some if the teams being compared had an equal number of losses. But it is clear fewer losses, even against an awful schedule, trumps SOS.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 12:53 pm to Salmon
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Cignetti wants to schedule the easiest schedule possible with a bunch of 25 year old players
Nothing is stopping other programs from the same blueprint.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 1:21 pm to ronricks
I know, ron.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 3:21 pm to Tiger Prawn
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There’s really only 6 good football programs in the conference (OSU, Michigan, Penn State, Oregon, USC, Indiana) out of 18 teams
It’s hilarious you actually believe this stupid shite
Washington has played in a national title game more recently than any SEC program. They have a very strong tradition and program historically.
Iowa has produced more consensus AA than all but 17 other programs, just 3 fewer than Miami, 5 fewer than Jortgia, and 6 fewer than LSU. Currently 12th in number of active NFL players, more than Clemson, USC, and Miami, just 1 less than Oklahoma. Have had 1 losing in >20 years. They’re 85-41 the last decade.
Wisconsin had been incredibly consistent until the hired a turd like Luke Fickell. Top 25 program all time. Very solid run of relevance the last 30 years. Major bowls, gobs of OL in the pros. Got greedy and ran off Bielema who had contended for conference crowns most years
This post was edited on 9/17/26 at 3:25 pm
Posted on 9/17/26 at 3:32 pm to NIH
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How is that enjoyable as a fan?
If you are a lifelong IU fan, you sat through literal decades of shite football
I'm sure they are all happy to sit and pile up wins and be on the other side for a change
Posted on 9/17/26 at 4:18 pm to JasonDBlaha
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Cignetti probably has a lot of influence over their non-conference schedule. It’s why they’ve only played a total of 2-3 ranked away games in the last 2 years.
Dude is a fricking pussy who’s afraid of getting humiliated in away games against teams that match him in physicality and coaching. I’ve grown to dislike him more over the past year.
Weird take. Cignetti sees no reward in playing tough OOC games; he has also proven that playing a light schedule does not necessarily mean they cannot win a championship. Cignetti beat Oregon (2x), Ohio State, Alabama, and Miami. That's a better resume than anyone else. Ohio State would have spanked every team in the SEC (of course, Indiana would have too). Ohio State would have spanked Texas if Ryan Day was not such a moron and/or if Sayin did not go braindead in the second half. Texas better hope that they do not play Ohio State again, because YIKES if so.
Posted on 9/17/26 at 8:55 pm to littleavery1948
Oh now you're an Indiana fan. Go suck some new York team off. Engineer of the 
Posted on 9/17/26 at 9:46 pm to Buckeye06
They’d be in a dog fight and lose 1 of those.
The ex James Madison players aren’t there and they aren’t near as dynamic or good.
The ex James Madison players aren’t there and they aren’t near as dynamic or good.
Posted on 9/18/26 at 7:54 am to Fun Bunch
That’s a two game season. Seriously. That schedule is terrible
Posted on 9/18/26 at 7:57 am to AbuTheMonkey
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As it was, an 11 - 1 Indiana was sweating its spot in the final weeks of 2024 with no ranked wins at all on their schedule, had to go on the road for the playoff game, and got pounded in said game.
They absolutely were not sweating their spot at all
Posted on 9/18/26 at 8:06 am to The Third Leg
I saw that post and immediately thought of you. Iowa needed to be included in that list of teams that take football seriously, but don’t bring up Washington and Wisconsin with the current state of their programs.
The B1G has had teams that have taken football seriously within the past 20 years, but over the past 10 there are just so many un serious teams that count as P4 wins that it’s ridiculous.
Purdue
Rutgers
Maryland
Michigan State
Wisconsin
Northwestern
UCLA
Have all been warmed up dog shite over these past 10 years and largely have been uncompetitive since realignment.
The B1G has had teams that have taken football seriously within the past 20 years, but over the past 10 there are just so many un serious teams that count as P4 wins that it’s ridiculous.
Purdue
Rutgers
Maryland
Michigan State
Wisconsin
Northwestern
UCLA
Have all been warmed up dog shite over these past 10 years and largely have been uncompetitive since realignment.
Posted on 9/18/26 at 8:45 am to Fun Bunch
The conference has to fix it. The conference is too big. You shouldn’t be able to play a Big 10 schedule without playing at least one of either Michigan or OSU
Posted on 9/18/26 at 10:59 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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y, but don’t bring up Washington and Wisconsin with the current state of their programs.
Washington was in the top 20 last week and tanked out after a close win to a big dog. They’re not some turd like Wisconsin has become.
This post was edited on 9/19/26 at 7:36 am
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