If you didn’t know much about Notre Dame football’s opponent Indiana Hoosiers head coach [autotag]Curt Cignetti[/autotag], in the first-round of the College Football Playoff, is that he isn’t afraid the tell everyone what he thinks.
He’s gone viral with some of his comments in his first season with the Hoosiers, and Cignetti has done it again ahead of the matchup with the Irish.
When he spoke about his team’s seeding with CBS Sports, he was critical about where his team was seeded, citing a few facts about the Hoosiers. What he fails to mention is the Hoosiers strength of schedule, No. 67 according to ESPN, which is one of the worst game the CFP field. For comparison, the Irish were No. 59, not much of a difference, but still better.
Indiana played a light Big Ten schedule, it’s only game they played against a ranked opponent, they lost to Ohio State. Again, comparing to the Irish, who played five ranked opponents, beating every single one of them.
It’s hard to validate Cignetti’s complaint, even with the gaudy statistics which were inflated by inferior opponents, that they deserved to host a first-round game.
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