BLOOMINGTON – Curt Cignetti pushed back firmly Sunday on the suggestion his team should be guaranteed a bye to the College Football Playoff quarterfinal, win or lose this weekend in the Big Ten championship game.

Cignetti's No. 2 Indiana faces No. 1 Ohio State — the conference's first 1-2 matchup in 19 years — Saturday inside Lucas Oil Stadium, in the Hoosiers ' first appearance in the league's showpiece championship game. The Buckeyes and Hoosiers enter their long-anticipated matchup as college football's lone unbeaten teams, and it's widely believed only a substantial defeat could knock one or the other out of the College Football Playoff selection committee's top four when the field is announced next Sunday.

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