Indiana won the Big Ten title game and earned a bid to the Rose Bowl, where it will face the winner of the Oklahoma versus Alabama CFP quarterfinal.

It'll be a rematch for a spot in the Rose Bowl in the College Football Playoff. Oklahoma against Alabama. Two bluebloods battling in the first round in Norman.

For starters, there are more justifiably aggrieved teams at being left out of the 12-team CFP. Among them: Vanderbilt (10-2), BYU (11-2), Texas (9-3) and, of course, Notre Dame (10-2), which had the most bitter Sunday following the selections.

Alabama’s record ninth CFP berth gets rolling Dec. 19 with a prime-time test against a fellow blue-blood college football program in Oklahoma.

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No. 2 Indiana won its first Big Ten championship since 1967, riding a stingy defense to shut down No. 1 Ohio State for a 13-10 victory Saturday night.