r/CFB • u/CFB_Referee /r/CFB • Jan 02 '26

Postgame Thread [Postgame Thread] Indiana Defeats Alabama 38-3

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Team 1 2 3 4 T
Alabama 0 0 3 0 3
Indiana 0 17 7 14 38
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u/BIG_DICK_WHITT Utah Utes • Billable Hours Jan 02 '26

In the bastion of shit that is this sport in 2026, Indiana gives me hope that one day my program could also do big things. I love them.

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u/suzukigun4life North Texas • Summertime Lover Jan 02 '26

Indiana being the beacon of light of CFP is a timeline that nobody could've seen coming. What the fuck kind of timeline is this.

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u/MuscleFlex_Bear Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '26

The time line we need. Everything needs to be reset

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u/Comfortable-Mess4365 Indiana Hoosiers Jan 02 '26

It is the guiding light that things might someday return to goodness

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u/modernthink Colorado State Rams Jan 02 '26

Not the timeline you wanted, the timeline you needed.

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u/lousy_at_handles Kansas Jayhawks Jan 02 '26

Well look, so this was there gorilla in the Cincinnati Zoo ...

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u/gwaydms SMU Mustangs Jan 02 '26

Every time someone talks about this or that "ruining" CFB, I can point to IU football. It's stories like this that make me love the game.

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u/wowthisislong Texas A&M Aggies • Kansas State Wildcats Jan 02 '26

The writers just mixed up the basketball and football scripts. Someone is getting fired.

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u/Lakai1983 Indiana • New Hampshire Jan 02 '26

It went off the rails when Alabama had the 1 overall seed in the NCAA basketball tournament.

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u/FatMamaJuJu Appalachian State • NC State Jan 02 '26

All you need is a couple Billionaire benefactors and your team can win too! Easy peasy

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u/AggressiveAge3870 Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '26

Fuck Indiana 😂😂

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u/fire_water_drowned Indiana • Notre Dame Jan 02 '26

Sorry your nepo baby couldn't get the job done 😭

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u/MysteriousEdge5643 Washington Huskies • College Football Playoff Jan 02 '26 edited Jan 02 '26

Same.

Petersen proved we could build a great program.

DeBoer proved we could get to the mountain top.

Cignetti gives me hope a school like us can do both consistently.

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u/PhDShouse Iowa State Cyclones • Sickos Jan 02 '26

Same

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u/JameisGOATston West Florida • Florida State Jan 02 '26

Same.

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u/Plasma640 Illinois Fighting Illini • Team Chaos Jan 02 '26

Same

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u/Rolling_Chicane Purdue Boilermakers • Harvard Crimson Jan 02 '26

Same

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u/s11n24 Jan 02 '26

As a Purdue fan I’ll settle for a conference win

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u/Rolling_Chicane Purdue Boilermakers • Harvard Crimson Jan 02 '26

I was talking about Harvard, clearly Purdue is a lost cause

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u/[deleted] Jan 02 '26

Same

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u/somehype Nebraska • Sacramento State Jan 02 '26

I’m still not convinced

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u/eddie_the_zombie Navy Midshipmen Jan 02 '26

Understandable, have a nice day

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u/the_thinwhiteduke Auburn Tigers Jan 02 '26

Saban showed what you could do with a program when you could pay 5*'s under the table to sit on the depth chart and not transfer because they were one of the only four teams to keep getting into the playoffs.

Deboer is showing what a program looks like when you can't do that anymore

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u/albic7 Illinois • Boise State Jan 02 '26

Uh, how old are you? Nebraska has been the top of the mountain and not in ancient history either.

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u/somehype Nebraska • Sacramento State Jan 02 '26

No no I know. But after that ass whooping from Utah and probably being 40 places ahead of Indiana in talent composite and then watching them beat the shit out of Alabama I am very disenchanted

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u/ImJLu California • Ohio State Jan 02 '26

Talent composite doesn't mean shit anymore in the portal era. There's no world where you can watch that Indiana team and say with a straight face that they're one of the less talented teams in the country. Yes, the coaching is excellent, but those players are for real.

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u/somehype Nebraska • Sacramento State Jan 02 '26

Either way it’s on the coaches

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u/Wolf-Cornelius Iowa Hawkeyes Jan 02 '26

Yeah I don't believe In Nebraska either

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u/loyalsons4evertrue Iowa State Cyclones • Big 8 Jan 02 '26

same....as we have like 7 players on our roster

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u/CieraVotedOutHerMom South Carolina Gamecocks Jan 02 '26

UW is a top 15/20 program! Just need the right coach to move up the next tier.

Hopefully fisch is the guy

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u/Adams5thaccount Boise State Broncos • UNLV Rebels Jan 02 '26

They could take ours.

Stealing our program architect to build theirs worked out once, why not try again?

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u/MysteriousEdge5643 Washington Huskies • College Football Playoff Jan 02 '26

Nice try.

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u/Adams5thaccount Boise State Broncos • UNLV Rebels Jan 02 '26

First of all I'd like to thank Jesus for this nice try.

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u/PedanticBoutBaseball Boise State • New Paltz Jan 02 '26

Nah we promise bro. Danielson is definitely NOT just an Ashton Jeanty merchant.

Source: Trust me bro.

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u/Etherion77 Michigan Wolverines Jan 02 '26

To be fair Washington did play in the title game 2 years back

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u/huskiesowow Washington Huskies Jan 02 '26

Some of our fans have serious low self esteem.

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u/MysteriousEdge5643 Washington Huskies • College Football Playoff Jan 02 '26

DeBoer leaving knocked our program back half a decade

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u/Anotheropinion2023 Texas Longhorns Jan 02 '26

May he never see the playoffs again because of it.

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u/saintkieran Washington • Central Washington Jan 02 '26

Amen

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u/ImJLu California • Ohio State Jan 02 '26

The tragedy of being merely decent for half a decade

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u/hanzel44 USC Trojans Jan 02 '26

I know you’re talking in recent times but you did win a national title with Don James and you probably should have competed for a title under Rick Neuheisel.

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u/Casaiir Georgia Bulldogs • Cal Poly Mustangs Jan 02 '26

Washington was on the mountain top. They just fell off of it.

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u/The-White-LarryBird Minnesota • Dakota State Jan 02 '26

Get your billionaires to start coughing up the dough and anyone can win

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u/SceneOfShadows Washington Huskies • Syracuse Orange Jan 02 '26

Annoyingly we really should have a near unbeatable ace card here if Billy G ever decided to repay* the damn school his dad went to and where he could access a computer lab as a child.

*you know, through athletics and not the buildings with his name and academic stuff he supports lol.

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u/DestenehNurd The Axe • Pac-12 Gone Dark Jan 02 '26

Kid named Don James:

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u/az_catz Arizona Wildcats Jan 02 '26

We were on the way up...

Luckily Brennan only needed a year to get up to speed.

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u/Lamadian Oregon Ducks • Oregon State Beavers Jan 02 '26

Ok, but what about Jimmy Lake?

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u/YoloSwag4Jesus420fgt Michigan Wolverines • Team Chaos Jan 02 '26

The sad part is it's going to be impossible without a ton of money nowadays

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u/draukareborn Oregon Ducks Jan 02 '26

I’m not convinced.

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u/Osiris32 Oregon Ducks • /r/CFB Brickmason Jan 02 '26

You'd have to stop smelling like low tide and depression first.

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u/cyanocittaetprocyon Michigan Wolverines • /r/CFB Booster Jan 02 '26

This is the problem though. Everyone will be looking for the next Cig, and it isn't very likely that lightning will strike twice.

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u/Chaotic-PopTart Team Chaos • Pop-Tarts Bowl Jan 02 '26

Speaking of your program, are you going to change your username? 

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u/BIG_DICK_WHITT Utah Utes • Billable Hours Jan 02 '26

Kyle is a big dick, I don’t see the problem.

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u/Pope_Cheetos_XIV Georgia Tech • Central Missouri Jan 02 '26

It will be funny to see how this affects coaching cycles though. EVERYONE will want to be the next Indiana

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u/Wolf-Cornelius Iowa Hawkeyes Jan 02 '26

You guys have had a meteoric rise as well...Utah has respect cause of Kyle, and urban. Jumped from g5 to power conference and dominated. I'd argue before Indianas turn around. You guys held title for how to grow

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u/SecondBreakfast814 Indiana Hoosiers Jan 02 '26

🥹

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u/TheInsatiableRoach Auburn Tigers Jan 02 '26

They are the light.

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u/the_north_place Nebraska • Winona State Jan 02 '26

You destroyed Nebraska, so I guess that's the first step 

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u/ConfidentFatMan Arkansas Razorbacks Jan 02 '26

I think all of us “little big guys” are feeling the same and rooting them on.

One day maybe me. But for now. Awesome for them.

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u/Dapper_Doughnut_8248 Notre Dame Fighting Irish Jan 02 '26

One better.  Theyre helping to prove that higher NIL ceilings doesnt always translate into success.  I worry a lot about how NIL will affect cfb and this gives me some hope. 

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u/TheMagicSalami Ole Miss Rebels • Egg Bowl Jan 02 '26

Hey its even more likely for you or BYU considering the Mormon church has more money than God ironically.

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u/AnEmptyKarst Houston Cougars • Utah Utes Jan 02 '26

Anyone associated with the church itself would die before donating big to Utah for any reason other than to create an honor code here

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u/randohipponamo Jan 02 '26

Well you’ve got all that PE money so you’ll at least be as good as TTU

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u/nicholus_h2 Michigan Wolverines Jan 02 '26

you can do great things.

you can send your entire coaching staff to Michigan. That's great, right?

Right? Guys? What are...what...guys?

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u/BIG_DICK_WHITT Utah Utes • Billable Hours Jan 02 '26

This is why we hate you now