Unexpected Underdogs Poised to Shake Up College Football Playoff First Round: Who Will Defy the Odds?
Who will that be? Let’s look for clues, provide one big question to track and reveal our model’s college football playoff bracket predictions for all four first-round games.

No. 10 Indiana at No. 7 Notre Dame (Friday, Dec. 20)
One Big Question: Can Indiana maybe, possibly run the ball?
It’s going to be hard. The Hoosiers ran the ball a lot this year and mostly ran it well: a 51.8% run rate overall and a 44.% rushing success rate (40.0% national average), even while facing lots of defenders near the line of scrimmage. But they didn’t generate many big run plays, with an explosive run play rate of a middling 6.8%.

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