Indiana football coach Curt Cignetti isn't sweating over the College Football Playoff picture going into season finale against Purdue, here's why:

The roller coaster rankings are getting real scary, and Indiana’s trip to the No.10 spot in the latest CFP rankings is a prime example of how a single bad day can rewrite an entire narrative. The post David Pollack Announces Curt Cignetti & Indiana’s Playoff Fate After Serious Dip in College Football Playoff Rankings appeared first on EssentiallySports.

Warde Manuel, one of 13 members on the College Football Playoff Committee, detailed the reasoning behind Indiana's ranking.

College football has seemingly discovered the 63-year-old Hoosiers coach through his quips and undefeated team. There's more to his swaggering confidence.

Despite loss, Hoosiers have been one of the better teams in the country. Last year, that would no longer matter. This year, it still might.

Football coach Curt Cignetti is set to make $8,300,000, plus potential bonuses, in the first year of his new contract with Indiana. Here are the full details of

Indiana snapped a bowl-game drought dating back to 2020 under Cignetti in his first season in Bloomington. The Hoosiers are one of the Big Ten teams never to make the playoff. Only Ohio State, the Michigan Wolverines and Michigan State Spartans have done so.

The Southeastern Conference’s losses were almost everyone else’s gain in the College Football Playoff rankings.

Indiana fell to the No. 10 spot in rankings by the College Football Playoff committee. That makes the Hoosiers the last at-large team in the field.

Cignetti will average $8 million in base compensation over the life of the contract, and can make the deal fully guaranteed if IU reaches the Playoff.

Mackenzie Salmon, and an IU alum, shares how Coach Cignetti has turned the Indiana football team around for the better.