Paul Finebaum is willing to admit it. The SEC Network host and ESPN personality is willing to predict Indiana will make the College Football Playoff, but that’s also the result of some chaos from the SEC in Week 13 .

Over the weekend, Indiana’s 10-0 start was abandoned as Ohio State dominated the Hoosiers in Columbus. Finebaum admitted to seeing this match on FOX, although he felt a little stuck on a plane during the broadcast.

Finebaum also criticized the broadcast team of Gus Johnson and Joel Klatt for going overboard with their “politics” in favor of Hoosiers. This is likely a reference to Klatt saying Indiana head coach Curt Cignetti and Georgia head coach Kirby Smart were both hope to get a pass from the CFP committee for a bad loss on their CV.

“They’re going to come in,” Finebaum said of the Hoosiers during his Monday appearance on McElroy and Cubelic in the morning. “You can’t make a strong case against Indiana against some SEC teams, because the SEC teams are going to win. The only thing I really didn’t like, and maybe it was because I was on a plane being held hostage. I couldn’t turn it off. The political politics of the broadcast team (FOX), it was exaggerated, it was really disingenuous.

Ultimately, a key group of losing SEC teams forced Finebaum to admit that IU would be in the final field, although he now wishes the Hoosiers had to go to the SEC in the first round:

“But it’s okay. It was funny, at 3 p.m. Saturday I thought Indiana was as dead as she could be. Around midnight, they found themselves back. I think all the arguing about Indiana is over,” Finebaum conceded. “They’re going to come in. Now I can’t wait, I just hope they can get to an SEC team’s stadium this Friday or Saturday night, and then we can find out what we already know. the SEC team will beat them badly.

Indiana still needs to get past Purdue to finalize its playoff record as an 11-1 team, but the Hoosiers are heavy favorites in the rivalry game. As for a possible CFP matchup against an SEC foe, be sure to use SDS sports betting app to follow all the lines of play when selection Sunday arrives.