Purdue's string of winning three straight Old Oaken Buckets is on the line against an Indiana team that has been the surprise of college football.

Indiana fell to the No. 10 spot in rankings by the College Football Playoff committee. That makes the Hoosiers the last at-large team in the field.

Indiana's special season ran into a brick wall Saturday afternoon as the fifth-ranked Hoosiers fell 38-15 on the road against No. 2 Ohio State. All week, questions about Indiana's legitimacy as a Big Ten power and a College Football Playoff competitor swirled.

Clemson doesn't have the strongest case for the College Football Playoff, but it just needs a case better than Indiana's. And it's getting closer.

Despite its loss Saturday at Ohio State, Indiana still looks to be in good shape to make the College Football Playoff.

The weekend before Thanksgiving often feels like the calm before the storm in college football. Saturday was different. The expanded College Football Playoff turned it into a tempest with postseason implications from the home of the Super Bowl champion Chiefs in Kansas City to the House that Ruth Built in the Bronx.

The Indiana Hoosiers hung on to a spot in the latest College Football Playoff bracket projection. Tuesday night, Indiana University fans found out that they'd get to stay in the playoff conversation. They landed in the No. 11 spot in the bracket.