Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti is crying foul and claiming bias after the College Football Playoff Selection Committee released its first weekly rankings.
\n\nOn his weekly radio show Wednesday, Cignetti took particular aim at the analysts ESPN uses on its rankings reveal program and the narratives they support.
\n\n“They’re given instructions on what to say, and they follow the company line,” Cignetti said of the network’s college football analysts.
\n\nCignetti continued, “SEC gets a lot of love from ESPN, you know, and all their writers that they don’t technically pay, but march to their drum. So, and that’s why you see all these SEC teams up there, you know, and some good two-loss teams from the Big Ten, not quite as high. But like I said, it’s all going to be it’s all going to be played out on the field.”
\n\nESPN holds the SEC’s national television rights and the media rights to the College Football Playoff.
\n\nThe committee was certainly favorable to the SEC in the first installment of the CFP rankings. Voters put ten SEC teams in the top 25, versus only six from the Big 10, where Cignetti’s Hoosiers play.
\n\nHowever, the SEC has been the better…
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