We were safe as of selection Sunday. But after the OSU game we did not control our own destiny. A lot of other teams had to lose for us to be safely in.
Absolutely not true. We fell from 5 to 10 and moved up to 9 after the Purdue game. We 100% controlled our own destiny and would have been out with a loss vs. Purdue.
@whatthefrik - IU was very much on the bubble and if it weren't for the SEC having a chaotic last couple of weeks, IU was certainly on the outside looking in. They were clamoring for all of the 3 loss SEC teams to be in over a bad scheduled 1 loss IU team. If South Carolina, Ole Miss, or Bama hadn't lost in those last 2 weeks, any of those hypothetical 2 loss teams would've been in over IU.
No they weren't. IU never fell below 10th in the weekly rankings. By the time the conference championship games happened, they were ranked 9th.
Even if they stayed 10th, there would have needed to be 3 bid stealer results in conference champ games to bump IU, which wasn't possible. The big 12 winner was always going in and the loser was never getting in. Both SEC and BIG teams were a lock. The G5 was only getting one team no matter what. The only bid stealer situation that could occur did occur (Clemson beat SMU) and IU got in anyway.
The SEC's whining about it doesn't mean IU was on the bubble. They weren't. The committee made that clear.
Coach has many times described the usual development path his transfer or new QBs take.
Think one would be crazy to believe that the scheduling for the first three weeks of each new season is the unsaid chapter of his QBs development arc.
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