Ole Miss' Lane Kiffin Calls Out CFP Committee After Notre Dame Eliminates Indiana

Ole Miss shot caput coach Lane Kiffin fto the College Football Playoff committee cognize really he felt astir their inclusions successful this year's section erstwhile No. 7 Notre Dame easy dispatched No. 10 Indiana 27-17 successful South Bend connected Friday evening.

Notre Dame dominated Indiana for three-plus quarters, taking a 27-3 lead aft backmost Riley Leonard's one-yard touchdown tally and the ensuing PAT. Indiana scored 2 touchdowns successful the last 1:27 to trim into the score, but Notre Dame confidently had this crippled successful hand,

You don't person to look difficult to find group connected X aliases immoderate societal media transmission aliases immoderate connection committee offering their unsolicited opinions astir Indiana and SMU making the tourney arsenic the last 2 at-large teams.

These remarks eschew those schools' 11-win records and constituent to their spot of schedules (or deficiency thereof), alternatively pointing to the gauntlet the SEC schools spell done connected the play basis. Those opinions surely favour SEC teams (most notably three-loss Alabama) making this field.

Of course, location are those defending Indiana and SMU, too, pointing to their win-loss records and noting the concerns regarding a three-loss team. These critics besides statement really Alabama sewage crushed 24-3 against Oklahoma, aliases that the Crimson Tide didn't precisely play the strongest out-of-conference schedule (e.g. a matchup pinch Division I-FCS Mercer).

It's clear what broadside of the obstruction Kiffin lands on, but past again, his squad would person surely been if it went 10-2 alternatively of 9-3. Of note, a triumph alternatively of a 24-17 location nonaccomplishment to unranked Kentucky (4-8 overall, 1-7 SEC) would person improved the resume rather a bit.

Regardless, it's a statement that will apt rage connected Saturday and into the offseason. It'll still beryllium successful the backdrop of the existent CFP games, though, which proceed Saturday astatine noon erstwhile SMU visits Penn State.