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Curt Cignetti throws shade at CFP rankings after Indiana fell 5 spots without playing
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Curt Cignetti is a heck of a college football coach, which anybody, including those on the College Football Playoff committe, would all agree about.
The third-year Indiana head coach has worked wonders in Bloomington, taking the Hoosiers to the Playoff in each of his first 2 seasons and polishing off the school’s first national championship last year when IU went 16-0 and rewrote the school’s football tradition.
But Cignetti isn’t just a great coach and a transformative figure in the sport.
He’s a bit of a comedic pro, or amateur in this case. Cignetti is a certifiable character, and when there’s something that needs to be said, or tweeted, he usually says it, or tweets it.
That happened on his social media account during a little Thursday afternoon delight at the faces of the CFP committe, who dropped Indiana 5 spots in Tuesday night’s latest rankings, all the way down to No. 9, despite the fact that the defending national champs had a bye in Week 10.
So, to social media went Curt Cignetti, who wrote the following to poke fun at the rankings and the committee that revealed them a few nights earlier.
Social media musings and controversial Playoff rankings aside, Cignetti and Indiana are back in action in Week 11, with USC coming to Bloomington for a massive matchup of Playoff hopefuls on Saturday.
The Trojans are ranked 18th in those latest CFP rankings, and they have 2 losses while IU only has the 1 loss to Ohio State, but with Indiana are already falling hard in this week’s Playoff rankings, whether fairly or unfairly, another loss could seriously derail the Hoosiers’ chances to defend their national title.
USC (7-2, 4-2 Big Ten) and Indiana (8-1, 5-1 Big Ten) will kick it off at 3:30 p.m. ET on CBS in a Big Ten battle, and the Playoff committee will be watching closely, of course.
Perhaps Cignetti will provide another comedic reaction to next week’s rankings, should he believe Indiana was treated unfairly again.