CrimsonCast

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@Hoosier_Review The joys of live television!

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@softcampwood BTN on cable!

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For those heading to The Bill tonight, you now have time to finish dinner first

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Tonight’s Big Ten semifinal match, originally scheduled for 6 p.m. ET, will now kick off at 7:30.

🆚 #7 Maryland
⏰ 7:30 p.m. ET
📍 Bill Armstrong Stadium

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I have three lower-level tickets available at face value for the Indiana - Arkansas game in MSG. If you know of anyone looking (including yourself), send me a message

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Why did conferences exist before conference championship games were created?

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NEW: Missouri's Eli Drinkwitz on the elimination of conference championships:

"My question is why are we associated with conferences anymore if we’re not playing for a conference championship? If the point now is just to be playing into a sea of 24, are we just doing it for scheduling affiliation? If we’re just doing it for scheduling affiliation, is there a reason to be flying all the way across the country to play games from a national perspective?"

(via @MizzouToday)

https://t.co/2QpKYaluhH

[Adam Rittenberg @ESPNRittenberg]

If you want to know why the Big Ten pushed for the 24-team CFP, consider this from selection committee chair Hunter Yurachek last night about South Carolina:

"They also have what we believe are quality wins against Oklahoma, Florida and Texas A&M."

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Exactly what schools with hundreds of millions of their own dollars on the line want to see. I remain baffled that college athletics leaders outside of the SEC continue to go along with the show concept

[Steven Goldman @IUHoosierSteve]

@CrimsonCast The goal of their show is discourse between rankings. It’s the pro wrestling version of a serious college football top 25.

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Some updates on the Football Weather Model - what it got right and wrong, and diving into the apparent logic of the rankings: https://t.co/WZry8Juy1O

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We went live on Football Weather (@FootballWeathe4) last night, reacting to the CFP Rankings for Week 11 in real-time. Check it out here: https://t.co/NhMb2uL3OP

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What has made Indiana's defense so dominant this year? Where are the problems on special teams? CrimsonCast dove into the numbers for both yesterday: https://t.co/WmmK5R7IjT

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We went live on Football Weather (@FootballWeathe4) last night, reacting to the CFP Rankings for Week 11 in real-time. Check it out here: https://t.co/NhMb2uL3OP

[Graham Coffey @GrahamCoffeyDC]

THEY MOVED INDIANA DOWN 5 SPOTS TO #9 OFF A BYE WEEK?

This committee is hilarious

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@ESPNCFB Indiana is the first team to fall more than 3 spots on a bye week since the CFP rankings started in 2014

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1) I love how Yuracheck just casually notes that Notre Dame moved up because BYU (among others) lost, but he seems unconcerned that NOTRE DAME LOST TO BYU HEAD-TO-HEAD. It didn't even happen that long ago!

2) It sure sounds like Miami got dropped in the rankings becuase they didn't play well in the first half against Notre Dame, based on his actual words spoken here. Which is insanely stupid.

3) No disrespect at all to UCLA and their win at Minnesota, but how does UCLA winning at Minnesota move them ahead of Miami simply because Miami lost a close game (that lasted 60 minutes, not 30) to a Notre Dame team that they decided had to be ranked 5th?

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Hunter Yurachek, the chair of the CFP selection committee, shares the rationale behind Notre Dame's rise & Miami’s fall in the latest rankings.

[Nicole Auerbach @NicoleAuerbach]

Since Alabama is getting so much credit for beating Mississippi State w/ Kamario Taylor, what happens to the teams Ohio State played at full strength? Feels like Indiana’s close loss to OSU got “worse” in the eyes of the committee this week after team’s drop-off.

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Again, this committee cannot be taken seriously.

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Hunter Yurachek says Indiana was "a victim of having a bye week at the wrong time" bc of so many teams right around them getting big wins (UCLA, ND), and also notes that all 6 of the Big Ten teams they've played lost over the weekend.

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How does BYU, who has the worst loss of anyone in the top 20, an FPI of 17 and an SOR of 14, drop one spot with a loss, but Indiana, with an FPI of 8 and an SOR of 8 and who *didn't play this week*, drop five spots?

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You cannot take this CFP committee seriously. How does Miami, currently 3rd in SOR and 24th in SOS, playing without their best offensive player and losing by a score at Notre Dame, drop six full spots?

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How does Alabama, who lost by 16 points at Tennessee, get ranked five spots ahead of that same Tennessee team, who by the way has two losses by six *total* points?

[T-Cal @TCalBIP]

They’re so unserious 🤣 Indiana was #4 Last week, didnt have a game this past week, 1 of the teams in front of them lost, and instead of them moving up to #3 they move back to #9?! What a joke

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Football Weather CFP Rankings Reaction https://t.co/KIA1nNCzZU