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CFP committee explains Indiana football’s significant rankings drop

USC Indiana football’s CFP resume takes a beating during off week During the CFP committee’s weekly meetings, they don’t use their previous rankings as a jumping off point.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 1 source•1 min read•Updated November 11, 2026, 9:03 AM UTC
Key points
  • After ESPN’s weekly CFP rankings show, Hunter Yurachek, the chair of the selection committee, offered a window into the group’s thinking.
  • When the committee started deliberations at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center this week, Indiana’s resume didn’t hold up as well against like-competition.
  • The Bruins were the only team that didn’t play a ranked opponent, but their 34-20 win over Minnesota gave the committee a direct point of comparison to Indiana.

BLOOMINGTON — Indiana football’s five-spot drop in the latest set of CFP rankings rivaled Miami’s fall out of the top spot and Kentucky’s slide out of the top 10.

Additional details
  • “Is a discussion point there for Indiana.” While IU’s offensive metrics aren’t standing out the same way they did in 2024 and 2025, the defense hasn’t given up its crown and helped balance out some of the negatives on the team’s resume.
  • “Indiana needed a 60-yard field goal as time expired to send that game into overtime and win that game.” The other results in the Big Ten didn’t help the Hoosiers either.
  • That is a point of discussion in the room when we are comparing them to other teams.” Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times.
  • “When the teams around you lose in the rankings and win big games, it affects where you land,” Yurachek said on a conference call with reporters.
  • “UCLA went on the road and beat a Minnesota team, a Minnesota team that had gone to Indiana the week prior,” Yurachek said.

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