Big Ten Reigns Supreme in College Football Playoffs

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Menace 2 Sports with Zach Smith

Sports, Football

2.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2026

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

The Big Ten just sent a message to college football. After dominant College Football Playoff wins by Oregon and Indiana, the conference is proving it belongs at the top of the sport.

Today, we go LIVE to react to yesterday's CFP results, break down how Oregon and Indiana dominated their opponents, and discuss whether the Big Ten now reigns supreme in the College Football Playoff era.

We'll cover LIVE:
🏈 Oregon's statement win and what it says about the Ducks
🏈 Indiana's dominant CFP performance and national respect
🏈 Why the Big Ten's depth is separating from other conferences
🏈 How these wins reshape the CFP landscape
🏈 What this means for the SEC and ACC moving forward

Join the live chat, drop your conference power rankings, and let's talk about whether the Big Ten is officially running college football.

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0:00.0	It is Friday, January 2nd.
0:05.0	It was a good ass day of college football yesterday.
0:08.0	A great slate of games, dude.
0:10.0	I was wrong a lot, but a great slate of games.
0:13.0	Yeah, dude, it was, it was, uh, I,
0:16.0	I know everything with hindsight is 2020, but there was just a lot of projection on my end in all four playoff games that I didn't trust what I saw on film.
0:29.5	I mean, I've done it several times and I don't know why I keep betting against Signetti.
0:33.9	I mean, I am the ultimate culprit of brand bias because I, I've watched both teams
0:39.5	on film. I knew Bama couldn't run the ball at all. Yeah. I knew they couldn't run the ball the
0:43.9	length of your dick. And I watched Indiana. I mean, all year. Indiana is the much better football
0:51.9	team. But I looked at those fucking logos.
0:55.1	And I'm like, no, bro.
0:55.6	No way.
0:56.7	Bama's going to show up.
1:03.6	Dude, and like, I expected Indiana to win, but optically, it still feels fucking crazy because we're watching Indiana, not just beat them, but belt them.
1:05.2	Like not the fuck out of them. And like beat them in the way that like we're used to seeing Bama beat like borderline good teams for the past 20 years like what in the
1:12.0	trenches with a good stable quarterback play with good defense like hard hitting like Indiana
1:18.5	hits harder than Alabama in the year of our Lord 2026 it's just crazy it's optively wild
1:24.6	it's wild I was actually texting with if you remember brandon, he was our punt returner at Florida, just dynamic returner. And him and I've been talking shit all season about how the SEC sucks. And I'm just texting. And I wasn't even talking shit. I was like, dude, I'm sitting here like in absolute disbelief at what I'm watching. Not only that Bama is getting
1:44.3	dicked down right now by anyone.
1:47.1	It's shocking to see, knowing, you know,
1:49.3	watching what I've watched over the last 15 years from Bama.
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