GRAPEVINE, Texas — When the College Football Playoff committee meets this week, the group will be hard-pressed to find any faults in Indiana football’s 2025 resume.

That wasn’t necessarily the case last year, as evidenced by the mock selection process The Herald-Times participated in earlier this fall.

The CFP has hosted a mock selection exercise for journalists on an annual basis going back to the organization’s first year in existence. Each of the invited outlets is asked to take on the role of a current committee member and go through an identical process the real group did last year, albeit in a condensed fashion.

Indiana was the most hotly debated team in the field during the mock selection exercise with some “committee members” unable to get past the team’s weaker strength of

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