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Dear Sonny Dykes.: Josh Hoover threw 4 TD passes Josh Hoover was 13-16 (ie more TD’s than incompletions) Josh Hoover had zero TO’s Suck it.

Alexis did not sign an Exhibit 10 deal.

And Sam Alexis has joined.

What do you do when make your debut as a defending national champion and claim your program's 17th straight victory. When your reigning national Coach of the Year improves to 28-2 in Bloomington? When you score 52 points before a sellout crowd on a 90-degree day despite a bit of an uneven performance? YOU SING! (Not exactly sure Hoover knows the words -- LOL).

That bloody pic makes Hoover an automatic legend

I was looking for him on most plays because of this speculation. He’s blocking intensely downfield and celebrating after every score made by his teammates. I don’t think there is any issue, just trying different matchups in these gimme games, but if there is any issue it’s not showing on the field. He’s all in every play he’s out there.

My first tattoo will read “F**k it, pray for Oregon.” Perhaps even on my forehead.

Jeff Sagarin has Michigan listed at 0-1 in his rankings.

Notable statistic: Prior to Western Michigan, college football teams were 110,352 - 0 when leading after the end of regulation, dating back to 1869.

HOT DAMN! This is fantastic news for our women's team. She picked us over Michigan, UNC and Cal.

Super Cooper 1st catch, looks familiar. FYI, he switched from jersey 83 to 11 after the preseason games.

Hopefully a good sign. Who knows after one game.

Ponds had 3 tackles for the Jets

Sarratt finally got his 1st NFL reception

Committed to IU!

Indiana football alum Kahlil Benson has been named NFL Offensive Rookie of the Month for September. The former undrafted free agent worked his way to become the Chiefs starting left tackle, and has seized his opportunity with a fantastic start to the season, allowing just six pressures thus far.

Hopefully Missouri since they are always ranked and seem to boost everyone's SOS.

I watch almost every presser, interview, and radio show. I agree Cig is a little more short in pressers this year. My theory: 1) I'd guess he's somewhat irritated with where the '26 team is. This also means even longer hours -- he seems a little more tired that usual in some of these pressers, which doesn't help. 2) Our media pool doesn't ask very good questions. I wish they would put a little more effort into it. 3) He just won the natty at IU with a roster that cost half the big programs -- he should probably get a little more benefit of the doubt than he does. I think it's mostly #1, with a little bit of #2, and a sprinkling of #3. He's coaching his butt off. I don't think it's a big deal -- just what happens from time to time in the pressure cooker that is CFB.

This guy brings us a natty and we've got our effin piece of poop fans (you know who they are) bitching about the second straight shutout game. That fanbase is an effin cancer to the 10k people in the stands he mentions here. And if you're reading this and you're one of those that bitched, kindly eat a bag of rhymes with ticks.

They got the prelim injunction! Poor Niz is reading through it all... still need to understand what the next steps may be. They're eligible for Northwestern though. Hopefully any other steps are after the season is over and this issue is put to bed. Update: My understanding is the NCAA will almost certainly appeal to the Indiana Court of Appeals. The NCAA will ask for a stay pending the outcome of the appeal -- which would make them ineligible again probably for the whole year because the appeal hearing will be scheduled pretty far out into the future. If the Court of Appeals doesn't grant a stay, they're probably good the whole season, as again, the appeal will probably be sometime pretty out into the future (like 2027). So I guess this is down to what the Court of Appeals does on the stay ask from the NCAA. This is a good first step today though. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer.

After the epic collapse Saturday on X many of their fans were posting about Cig, how he has a killer instinct, and would have won that game by 20 LOL Some said they wished he was their coach. Cig is a unicorn, and however it happened that we lucked out to get him, I am enjoying this ride for as long as possible. Other fanbases either love or hate him but he always seems to be in the conversation, and I relish the fact the IUFB is no longer the doormat of college football.

Crazy to think we’re all making what Sam is making. That’s what my paycheck says: “somewhere under a million”

Absolutely! However, Tobi quietly has 8.5 TFLS and 4 sacks. He could end up putting up some major numbers this year.

I wonder what they’re going to do with euro deals. While I supper this generally and trust the B1G more than the NCAA, I wouldn’t want to be in front of a judge explaining why a 20 year old American that rode the bench in the G-league is ineligible but a 20 yr old foreign national who spent 5 years on a pro team in Europe is eligible.

YES! We've gone from this: To this:

Woah, good to see that North Texas destroyed pre-season MWC favorite UNLV. 44-6

Against all odds… Puredoo. Finds. A way.

If anyone is concerned......Indiana's game plan was as vanilla and straight forward as it gets. They need to improve tackling. That is the only concern I have. They don't need to, and likely won't put much on film before Nebraska and maybe not even then. The team will play a completely different brand of football in mid October than we saw Saturday. There is NO reason to show anything before Nebraska. Example : Wilson had the only QB keep on that read option. Hoover had it....15 times. Handed it off every time he had Becker 1 on 1 with no safety help (stepped up in the box) over and over again. He hit it once. I am positive watching the game he was TOLD to hand the ball off and NOT keep it. He was told NOT to take advantage of single outside coverage. That's why the run game suffered and Hoover could have easily had 8 TD's or more had he taken what was there. He didn't need to and sure didn't need to show the entire arsenal. Apart from tackling, I am not worried in the least.

Great news. I’d avoid playing him but this point is he isn’t too badly hurt. And Hardy should be good to go this week.

Alexis is back. Talented roster. We have a nice non-con schedule. The air is getting chillier. I’m starting to get excited about IU basketball. Probably Charlie Brown with the football again, but whatever.

Can’t sneak anything by Ol’ Josh.

Iowa has 55 points with over 12 minutes left. Not sure the scoreboard in Kinnick Stadium is equipped for that.

Dammit, Nando's been corrupted.

Zero turnovers and zero penalties. That's hard to do against anyone.

Not a great game, but I'd like to say Marsh threw some incredible blocks.

Tune in next week / month for the next episode in this ridiculously stupid saga.

UTEP 14, Michigan 7

Will never not be incredible to me that we had to make a mega thread because keeping up with individual player threads was far too inefficient.

Probably not notable but since tea leaf reading is always fun: The staff was in today to see Wabbington 4 days after his visit while Arizona was at Blair Academy to see top 50 C Kamsi Awaka, whose brother played at Zona the last 2 years. Curiously, their Arizona official visits are currently scheduled for the same weekend.

It's not like LSU really has a choice. There are 2 conferences that matter now and will ever matter for the rest of college sports' lifespan. As an institution and especially one like LSU who historically has issues with money, you would have to be completely out of your mind to get yourself kicked out of one of those conferences over 2 guys who weren't good enough to make an NFL roster. The fact that we got to this point is completely baffling to me.

Indiana 70, Howard 0. At the end of the 3rd quarter, with the score 63-0, Howard’s coach asks that the 4th quarter be reduced to 10:00. Cig responds, “bull$h!t, we’re playing a 15:01 4th quarter because that’s what we do in the Big Ten!”

I stood shoulder to….mid arm? with Monshun today. I’m a legit 6 foot. He might actually be 6’5”.

16 straight games without a Fumble Lost btw