The place Indiana soccer is in CFP rankings earlier than Massive Ten championship sport – IndyStar

BLOOMINGTON — The School Soccer Playoff committee stored the lone undefeated groups, No. 1 Ohio State and No. 2 Indiana football, within the prime two slots within the penultimate rankings launched on Tuesday night time.
It units up the a primary of its sort No. 1 vs. No 2. within the Massive Ten title sport this weekend in Indianapolis.
The Hoosiers (12-0, 9-0 Massive Ten) have been nipping at OSU’s heels for 5 straight weeks within the CFP rankings. The winner of the convention title sport will lock up a spot within the Rose Bowl because the Massive Ten’s highest-ranked staff and prime seed within the bracket.
“I had the chance to be part of a few these at Alabama,” IU coach Curt Cignetti stated Sunday. “We performed Florida and (Tim) Tebow and City (Meyer) one verse two, two years in a row. It is going be a terrific environment.”
Based mostly on the present rankings, Indiana would confronted the winner of a matchup between No. 7 Notre Dame and No. 10 Texas A&M.
The excellent news for Ohio State and Indiana is that the modifications the CFP made to their power of schedule metrics through the offseason ought to forestall the staff that loses this weekend from falling out of the highest 4, the cutoff for receiving a first-round bye.
Beneath the brand new system, the metrics rewards groups for defeating high-quality opponents whereas minimizing the penalty for dropping to such a staff.
1. Ohio State 12-0 (-)
2. Indiana 12-0 (-)
3. Georgia 11-1 (+1)
4. Texas Tech 11-1 (+1)
5. Oregon 11-1 (+1)
6. Ole Miss 11-1 (+1)
7. Texas A&M 11-1 (-4)
8. Oklahoma 10-2 (-)
9. Alabama 10-2 (+1)
10. Notre Dame 10-2 (-1)
11. BYU 11-1 (-)
12. Miami 10-2 (-)
13. Texas 9-3 (+3)
14. Vanderbilt 10-2 (-1)
15. Utah 10-2 (-2)
16. USC 9-3 (+1)
17. Virginia 10-2 (+1)
18. Arizona 9-3 (+7)
19. Michigan 9-3 (-4)
20. Tulane 10-2 (+4)
21. Houston 9-3 (N/R)
22. Georgia Tech 9-3 (+1)
23. Iowa 8-4 (N/R)
24. North Texas 11-1 (N/R)
25. James Madison 11-1 (N/R)
The 12-team area options the 5 highest-ranked convention champions, plus the subsequent seven highest-ranked faculties. The 4 highest-ranked faculties are seeded one by means of 4 and obtain a first-round bye. 
The remaining faculties will probably be seeded 5-12 primarily based on their last rating. If any of the 5 highest-ranked convention champions are outdoors the highest 12, they are going to be seeded on the backside of the bracket. 
These eight faculties will play within the CFP first spherical with the upper seeds internet hosting the decrease seeds on campus (or a chosen web site picked by the higher-seeded staff). The committee doesn’t modify the bracket to keep away from rematches and there’s no re-seeding. 
The highest 4 seeds will probably be assigned to the quarterfinals hosted by the bowls, in accordance with historic bowl relationships. The Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Cotton Bowl and Orange Bowl are internet hosting the quarterfinals this season.
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