Indiana Gets Obliterated by Ohio State and Proves It Belongs Nowhere Near the College Football Playoff

Alright, the discussions are over. We had to spend the last few weeks pretending Indiana was a College Football Playoff team having somehow made it through the 106th-best schedule in the country unscathed, but now we know the Hoosiers aren't particularly close to Playoff-level. They had one opportunity all season to show what they looked like against a team with a pulse and were barely ever in the game.

Seventy-five of IU's 151 total yards came on a drive in garbage time. Kurtis Rourke only completed eight passes in the game. The lopsided score doesn't even indicate how much of a beatdown this was.

I'm still skeptical the the CFP committee will do what needs to be done, but how can we possibly reward a team who played one game all season against a worthy opponent and got its shit kicked in? Putting Indiana in the Playoff would be a gigantic middle finger to every other team in contention that has actually been tested multiple times throughout the year and beaten good teams. The Hoosiers' best win is going to be either Washington or Michigan, who will likely both finish 6-6. Their résumé, to whatever extent they have one, is simply the fact they went 11-1 because they were gifted the easiest schedule a Big Ten team has ever played.

If Indiana finds its way into the CFP field, every Power Four team in America should cancel any future non-conference game it has against a good team and just pray it gets the luck of the draw when it comes to the conference schedule. Beating nobody all season has to mean something.