Indiana football redshirt junior receiver Omar Cooper Jr. is expected to play in the Hoosiers' College Football Playoff run after suffering an injury Saturday.

Indiana hadn’t beaten Ohio State since 1988 — a span of 32 straight games without a win (one game was a tie) — and then did so with everything on the line: an unbeaten regular season, the conference championship, the No. 1 seed in the CFP, and the Heisman Trophy.

Alabama and Miami are in, Notre Dame is out and Indiana is No. 1 in the College Football Playoff’s 12-team bracket.

Heisman Trophy candidate Fernando Mendoza didn't hold back his excitement with Indiana knocking off Ohio State in the Big Ten championship game.

Georgia is back in the hunt for its first national title since 2022. The Bulldogs made quite the statement on the even of the final rankings reveal, as they dog-walked Alabama 28-7 to capture their second straight SEC title. They also avenged a regular season loss to the Crimson Tide, which stands as the only blemish on their 12-1 record.

The committee did not drop Alabama from its No. 9 ranking despite a blowout loss in the SEC championship on Saturday.

The 33-yard heave from Mendoza to Becker sealed a stunning 13-10 victory, in which the Hoosiers never trailed in the second half. It gave Cignetti & Co. the program’s first Big Ten title since 1967 — and first outright conference win since 1945 — and secured the No. 1 seed in this year’s College Football Playoff.

Fresh off a dominant performance in the SEC Championship Game, Georgia (12-1) earned the No. 3 seed, failing to supplant OSU despite beating the only team that had defeated it earlier in the season. Big 12 champion Texas Tech (12-1) slotted No. 4 with the top four seeds all receiving first-round byes in Year 2 of the 12-team format.

Indiana’s climb to No. 1 has spotlighted a familiar Clemson connection, with a former Tiger wideout delivering a long-awaited resurgence in 2025.