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Jeremiyah Love tied the Notre Dame record with a 98-yard touchdown run, Riley Leonard added two more scores and the Fighting Irish shut down the highest-scoring team in the College Football Playoff, overwhelming Indiana 27-17 on Friday night.
SMU's Kevin Jennings is the only quarterback starting for his hometown team in the 12-team College Football Playoff.
Indiana coach Curt Cignetti pursued Kurtis Rourke in the transfer portal because he wanted a proven winner.
Curt Cignetti of Indiana has been named The Associated Press Coach of the Year in college football.
College football’s conference shakeup left concerns about two super conferences dominating the playoff field.
The Southeastern Conference’s losses were almost everyone else’s gain in the College Football Playoff rankings, with SMU nudging its way into the top 12 and Indiana staying in the mix at No. 10 despite a lopsided loss of its own.
Indiana has made the type of turnaround that had only happened once before at the power-conference level over the last decade.
Oregon’s dominance in its first year in the Big Ten and Indiana’s monumental turnaround have helped the conference stack four of its teams in the top five of The Associated Press college football poll for the first time.
Justice Ellison ran for 105 yards and two first-half touchdowns and No. 16 Indiana continued its best start in 57 years with a 56-7 rout of Nebraska, matching the Hoosiers’ most lopsided Big Ten win in program history.
