Indiana Hoosiers head coach Curt Cignetti thinks there’s a little bit of a fix going on when it comes to the weekly release of the College Football Playoff rankings.
Cignetti suggested that one of the key reasons behind the much-maligned first CFP rankings of the 2026 season is ESPN’s involvement with the SEC. On “Kirkwood & Dunn,” the Indiana coach
“These people, and there’s a whole bunch of them, they march out of the tent, and they’re given instructions on what to say, and they follow the company line, and I don’t need to go any further,” Cignetti said.
“SEC gets a lot of love from ESPN and all their writers that they don’t technically pay but march to their drum. That’s why you see all these SEC teams up there and some good two-loss teams from the Big Ten not quite as high.”
