An eight-team College Football Playoff sounds perfect right now.
That’s because Indiana is slotted at No. 8 in this week’s Associated Press Top 25, the program’s highest appearance of the season. It’s a climb of two spots for the Hoosiers, who went into Camp Randall Stadium on Saturday and held Wisconsin to a pair of field goals in a 14-6 victory.
There was no movement in the top seven of the AP poll, while BYU’s loss at Coastal Carolina cleared a path for Indiana to make a move. IU is one of five Big Ten teams ranked inside the top 25 this week, a list that includes No. 3 Ohio State, No. 15 Northwestern, No. 19 Iowa and the No. 25 Badgers.
Indiana also jumped inside the top 10 in the Amway Coaches Poll on Sunday, appearing at No. 9 in this week’s rankings. That’s a two-spot bump from where the Hoosiers appeared last week.
At this point, though, these rankings are merely nice to have. It’s CFP season, and the real question is whether Indiana will move into the top 10 of those rankings come Tuesday evening.
In the meantime, here’s how both polls look:
ASSOCIATED PRESS TOP 25
- Alabama
- Notre Dame
- Ohio State
- Clemson
- Texas A&M
- Florida
- Cincinnati
- Indiana
- Miami
- Iowa State
- Coastal Carolina
- Georgia
- Oklahoma
- BYU
- Norhtwestern
- USC
- Louisiana-Lafayette
- Tulsa
- Iowa
- North Carolina
- Colorado
- Liberty
- Texas
- Buffalo
- Wisconsin
AMWAY COACHES POLL
- Alabama
- Notre Dame
- Clemson
- Ohio State
- Texas A&M
- Florida
- Cincinnati
- Miami
- Indiana
- Georgia
- Iowa State
- Oklahoma
- Coastal Carolina
- Northwestern
- USC
- BYU
- Louisiana-Lafayette
- Iowa
- Tulsa
- North Carolina
- Liberty
- Colorado
- Texas
- NC State
- Wisconsin