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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Curt Cignetti’s eyebrows dipped, his lips pursed and his head cocked back in disbelief and, maybe, disgust. “Is that a serious question?” the Indiana coach launched toward an inquiring reporter after . “I’m not even going to answer that. The answer is so obvious.” Seconds later, Cignetti did answer, in the form of a head nod and a “well, of course, dude” expression. It is, after all, playoff lobbying season. And though Cignetti side-stepped the original playoff question here Saturday, he couldn’t resist commenting the second time around. But for many across the country — especially those residing in a particular part of our great nation (ahem, the South) — Indiana’s candidacy is not so obvious. And it didn’t get any more clear, for them, after the 38-15 loss to the Buckeyes. In fact, while writing away on this column, high above Ohio Stadium, this reporter received a couple of messages from those folks down South. Ah, yes — it’s that time of year. However, the SEC’s best argument for five teams — yes, — to get into the 12-team field likely fizzled on Saturday afternoon. Just minutes after Ohio State beat Indiana, , a bubble playoff team whose loss likely paves the way for the Hoosiers — and Tennessee too — to get in the field. Or does it? Last week’s College Football Playoff committee rankings seemed to position any Big 12 or ACC runner-up behind those programs. But we’ll know more Tuesday night when the committee releases its rankings. For now, let the politicking continue. Within Ohio Stadium after Saturday’s game, Cignetti and players met reporters with the playoff cloud lingering overhead. QB Kurtis Rourke is hoping for a “rematch” against Ohio State in the postseason, and linebacker Aiden Fisher says the Hoosiers — a team with 20 Group of Five transfers — showed their physicality against what is likely the most talented roster in college football. “People ask can this Group of Five team hold up? Look at the film,” Fisher deadpanned. He’s right, in a way. This wasn’t too disastrous of a performance by Cignetti’s crew. Ohio State scored in the final seconds to extend the lead from 16 to 23, and the Buckeyes got 14 points off special teams miscues from the Hoosiers. Indiana allowed a 79-yard punt return from star Caleb Downs, and it dropped a punt snap to give Ryan Day’s team seven more. In fact, IU’s defense allowed just 316 yards. But its offense, oh brother, its offense. The Hoosiers scored 15 points, 30 points below their average, and had 151 yards, more than 300 yards below their average. After its game-opening 70-yard touchdown drive, Indiana gained 81 yards on 48 plays. It gave up five sacks, completed just eight passes and averaged 2.6 yards a play. “Every time we dropped back to pass, something bad happened,” Cignetti said. Cignetti pointed to a couple of factors for the offensive outing: the noise and Ohio State’s talent. The Buckeyes are “loaded,” he said, and the Hoosiers needed to switch to a silent count because of the noise, something that rattled the squad and resulted in O-line miscommunication. “I didn’t think we played our best game today,” Cignetti said. But did it show enough to be in the playoff? “I don’t make those decisions,” Cignetti responded. “It’s more important now that I focus on the next game. Big rival [Purdue]. That needs to be everybody’s focus.” The focus for the masses was, is and will be Indiana’s schedule, ranked 106th among 137 FBS teams entering Saturday. Their opponents have a cumulative record of 10 games below .500. They’ve played one ranked team (Ohio State). Before Saturday, they’d beaten just one program with a winning record (Washington at 6-5). Those are the negatives. There are positives, too. Indiana beat nine of 10 opponents by double figures, was top five in the country in both scoring offense and defense and hung around — at least for a quarter and a half! — with the Buckeyes. Before kickoff Saturday, Cignetti, boastful and brash, let his feelings be known in an interview on ESPN. “We’ve got the largest scoring margin in college football, right?” he said. “There’s a narrative out there that’s created another chip for us. People can stick that narrative up their you-know-what.” Plenty of other bubble teams have their own problems, too. Tennessee lost to five-loss Arkansas. Any ACC or Big 12 champion will likely have at least two losses. SEC teams Ole Miss and South Carolina have three defeats, and Clemson lost at home to Louisville (not to mention the season-opening slaughtering against Georgia in Atlanta). Even two-loss Georgia, despite playing the country’s toughest-ranked schedule, struggled for three quarters with UMass (the Bulldogs allowed a whopping 226 yards rushing). Every team has a wart or two or three or four. It’s a near-impossibility to separate the group of potential at-large squads, a thankless position for committee members and the poor sap (Michigan AD Warde Manuel) that the CFP unnecessarily trots out each week to explain the rankings. Perhaps it’s why professional football has no committee. No at-large teams. No silly data-driven decisions and wacky metrics to separate playoff squads. In the NFL, it’s quite literally settled on the field, with postseason berths tied to division and conference finishes. Some want that model for this sport. One of them was here on Saturday: Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti, a man who in the spring . The model would include three or four automatic qualifiers for each the SEC and Big Ten; two each for the ACC and Big 12; one G5 auto bid; and then three to five at-large spots in a further expanded 14- or 16-team field. Is that the future? Maybe. For now, let the lobbying, the silly metrics and the impossible debates continue.gaming electronics near me 。

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The Dow Jones Industrial Average jumped nearly 400 points on Monday after President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for Treasury secretary, Scott Bessent, laid out his priorities – including tax cuts. In his first interview as Treasury nominee with The Wall Street Journal , Bessent said he will also focus on imposing tariffs, cutting spending and keeping the US dollar as the world’s reserve currency. By Monday afternoon, the Dow was up 0.9% and the S&P 500 was up 0.3% following the news. The longtime hedge fund manager said he is focused on making Trump’s 2017 tax cuts permanent, as well as eliminating taxes on tips, social security benefits and overtime pay. “Bessent himself is a very prominent investor and has a stellar track record which makes him a great choice, and the markets are responding to the excitement about how they think he will handle fiscal policy and interest rates,” Ted Jenkin, co-founder and business consultant at oXYGen Financial, told The Post. On Friday, Trump nominated the seasoned hedge fund manager , who has studied economic history for around 40 years, as US Treasury Secretary. That’s despite protests from Elon Musk, who donated millions to Trump campaign efforts and rallied in swing states on the president-elect’s behalf. Musk had dogged Bessent as a “business-as-usual choice,” and threw his support behind Howard Lutnick , who Trump ended up nominating to head the Commerce Department instead. Investors and Wall Street bigwigs have largely applauded the nomination of Bessent, who worked at George Soros’ firm before starting his own, because he is seen as the “moderate” choice, Mahoney Asset Management CEO Ken Mahoney said. Trump has ruffled feathers with some of his controversial nominations, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. to lead the health department , former Rep. 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Lucknow: Months after the ruling BJP’s poor Lok Sabha poll performance in Uttar Pradesh, the saffron party hit the opposition parties out of the park by winning six of the nine Assembly seats in the state where bypolls were held on November 20. Adding to BJP’s emphatic performance, its ally Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD) clinched Meerapur, the lone seat it contested. The Samajwadi Party (SP) emerged victorious on the remaining two seats — Karhal and Sishamau. According to the Election Commission (EC), the BJP candidates emerged victorious in Kundarki, Ghaziabad, Khair (SC), Phulpur, Katehari and Majhawan assembly constituencies. In Phulpur, BJP’s Deepak Patel bagged 78,289 votes to defeat his nearest rival and SP nominee Md Mujtaba Siddiqui by 11,305 votes. In Ghaziabad, saffron party nominee Sanjeev Sharma polled 96,946 votes to trounce his nearest rival Singh Raj Jatav of the SP by 69,351 votes, while his party colleague Surender Diler emerged victorious in Khair, defeating SP’s Charu Kain by 38,393 votes. BJP’s Suchismita Maurya, who bagged 77,737 votes, defeated her nearest rival Jyoti Bind of the SP by 4,922 votes in Majhawan, while Dharmraj Nishad of the BJP won the Katehari seat, beating SP’s Shobhawati Varma by 34,514 votes. In Kundarki, BJP’s Ramveer SIngh made short work of Mohammad Rizwan of the SP, winning by 1,44,791 votes. SP’s Tej Pratap Yadav secured 1,04,304 votes to pip BJP’s Anujesh Pratap Singh by 14,725 votes in Karhal. The seat fell vacant after SP chief Akhilesh Yadav got elected to the Lok Sabha from Kannauj earlier this year. Tej Pratap’s party colleague Naseem Solanki defeated BJP’s Suresh Awasthi by 8,564 votes in Sishamau where Bahujan Samaj Party’s (BSP) Virendra Kumar finished a distant third with 1,410 votes. The bypoll in Sishamau was necessitated after three-time sitting SP MLA Irfan Solanki, the husband of Naseem Solanki, was disqualified following his conviction in a criminal case. In Meerapur, RLD’s Mithilesh Pal bagged 84,304 votes to defeat her nearest rival Sumbul Rana of the SP by 30,796 votes. In the 2022 Assembly elections, the BJP won Phulpur, Ghaziabad, Majhawan and Khair, while the SP emerged victorious in Sishamau, Katehari, Karhal and Kundarki. The RLD, which was an SP ally then, won the Meerapur seat. The Congress stayed away from the bypolls this time after extending support to its INDIA bloc ally SP. The BSP fielded candidates in all nine seats, while the All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) put up nominees in Ghaziabad, Kundarki and Meerapur. The Aazad Samaj Party (Kanshi Ram) led by Chandrashekhar Aazad was also in the fray in all the seats barring Sishamau. Presently, the BJP has 251 MLAs and the SP 105 in the Uttar Pradesh Assembly. BJP allies Apna Dal (Sonelal), RLD, Suheldev Bharatiya Samaj Party and Nishad Party also have members in the House. The Congress and the Jansatta Dal Loktantrik have two seats each, while the BSP has one MLA in the 403-member Uttar Pradesh Assembly.Mysterious buck reveals potential AI fraud scheme targeting B.C. seniors (BC)

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SEATTLE (AP) — The Seattle Seahawks were struggling a week ago, coming off their bye having lost five of their last six games. That included a gut-punch overtime defeat at home against the Los Angeles Rams on Nov. 3. The outlook for the last-place Seahawks (5-5) was beginning to look grim. They suddenly have renewed optimism this week after an uplifting victory over the San Francisco 49ers that snapped a six-game losing streak against their arch-rival that dated to 2021. Seattle will play the first-place Arizona Cardinals (6-4) on Sunday for a share of the NFC West lead. How quickly things change in the NFL. “We’ve earned the opportunity to be fighting for the lead in the division going into the home stretch,” Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald said. “So that’s the way we’re treating it. It’s very much like a playoff mindset for us at this point.” The win over the 49ers, which was capped by a 13-yard touchdown run by quarterback Geno Smith with 18 seconds left, put the Seahawks in a much better place mentally than they’d been in over the previous six weeks. They’re hoping it’s just the start of something even bigger. “It can just spark something that you’ve been looking for this whole year,” wide receiver DK Metcalf said. “I know we started off very hot with the first three games, but, you know, when adversity hit, it’s all about how you respond. I think we responded the right way, and it’s going to carry us throughout the rest of the season.” While the Seahawks are feeling better this week, the Cardinals have plenty of reason to feel optimistic, too. After starting the season 2-4, Arizona has won four straight to put itself in first place in the NFC West. The Cardinals have a defense that is making big strides under the leadership of veteran safety Budda Baker and a top-five running game behind the dual threat of running back James Conner, who has 697 yards rushing, and quarterback Kyler Murray, who seems to be hitting his stride in his sixth NFL season. Murray has 2,058 yards passing with 12 touchdowns, and has rushed for 371 yards and four scores. Second-year head coach Jonathan Gannon has been impressed with Murray’s improved decision-making as Murray has thrown just three interceptions through 10 games. “There’s times that he probably wants to try to thread it a little bit, but understands when to pick and choose his spots,” Gannon said. “I think he’s done a phenomenal job with that and there are a lot of times throughout the game where you could say we like to put it in the quarterback’s hands, and you trust him to make the right decision for that point in the game.” Reunited Seahawks wide receiver Jaxon Smith-Njigba will see a familiar face on the other sideline Sunday in rookie Marvin Harrison Jr., who was Smith-Njigba’s college teammate at Ohio State in 2021 and 2022. The pair each caught three touchdowns in the Buckeyes’ wild win over Utah in the 2022 Rose Bowl, with Smith-Njigba having 347 yards receiving on what was a 573-passing yard day for C.J. Stroud, now the quarterback of the Houston Texans. “Late his freshman year, he really just stood out,” Smith-Njigba said of Harrison. “You could just see the growth and kind of who he is becoming. ... He’s passed a lot of people’s expectations, of course, but I knew he was going to be elite later on freshman year.” MVP-level Murray Murray is coming off one of the best games of his career after completing 22 of 24 passes for 266 yards and a touchdown against the Jets two weeks ago. He also ran for 21 yards and two TDs. Murray currently ranks No. 3 in the NFL in quarterback rating behind Cincinnati’s Joe Burrow and Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson. That has put him in the MVP conversation, particularly since Arizona has won four straight games. “I don’t play the game for the validation of others,” Murray said. “But as a player, of course, sometimes the recognition and the words being said feel good. But it doesn’t satisfy me.” Defensive improvement The most surprising part of Arizona’s four-game winning streak is the rapid improvement of the defense, which has allowed just 9 and 6 points, respectively, over the past two games. No touchdowns have been allowed – just five field goals. It’s just the second time over the past 30 years that the franchise has allowed 10 points or less over back-to-back games. Baker, a Bellevue native and former University of Washington football star, is the unquestioned leader of the bunch – he already has 100 tackles over 10 games - but the team also has a strong core of linebackers in Kyzir White, Mack Wilson and Zaven Collins. Metcalf and Baker have gone up against each other many times before, most famously when on an interception return in 2020. “You really can’t prepare for a guy like that because his engine never stops,” Metcalf said. “He’s always going to be around the ball. 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