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No injury concern for Kamara heading into the game.

Barely posted the past few days because I was in Atlanta. Truly a bucket list experience. When Ponds picky-sixdied it felt like twenty jet planes were revving in 10X10 room. The crowd was insanely pro and all IU. If you take away the Oregon band members? 90-95% IU without a doubt. With an announced attendance of over 75,000, maybe the single largest IU crowd ever; home, road, or neutral. The Oregon people I met were super nice but they kinda didn’t have much of a choice. The IU fans were exceptionally nice to them even when they could have engaged. This semi-old IU fan stayed up past 2:00 am two nights in a row, drove 19 hours over 2.5 days, my voice is still trashed, my eyes ache, and it was one of the best entertainment and IU times of my life. With my 19 year old son and four of my absolutely best college buddies by my side. Never daunted. And sublime.

Honestly something about that blocked punt in the 2nd half caught my eye, there might be legs to this. It's almost like we KNEW Oregon was trying to punt on that play.

Good times. IU bball wins on the road and tomorrow I head to Atlanta to watch a game I never, ever dreamed I would see!!!!

Sidenote, I personally know the Brock Schott family and he’ll be a Hoosier very soon. Leo HS TE. Highly rated. I don’t think he’ll be our penciled in starter but he’s a big athletic kid that’s focused on be great. Will be cool having him on the team.

Lee Beebe has reportedly said he'll be back at IU and ready for fall camp.

Ferrell officially back next year

Jared Kelly - Indiana WR Tyler Morris will be back at IU next season and expects to be full go for spring camp, he tells me. Morris, a Michigan transfer, is coming off an ACL tear suffered last spring. He jumped back into practice the week before the Rose Bowl.

Well an IU win would cap off a great day off from work. Got a little afternoon delight with the wife and now she’s making wings for the family for the game. If IU performs like I did today the game should over in the first 5 minutes

Eat your heart out guys Hopefully the screenshots aren't excessive. Just had to share them going through the 5 stages of grief.

lol -- Credit to this Minny fan for posting this and getting CFB twitter and LSU fans all fired up. Ragebait as the kids call it!

Hey all, Many many posts from many posters (myself included) that are off-topic here. We have threads that cover both Nick Marsh and the NCAA's lack of enforcement capabilities. Let's please ASAP get this thread back on track -- IUFB Recruiting and Transfer Updates. Thanks

Bang

On3 and The Daily Hoosier both reporting S Amare Ferrell will return for the '26 season

Bang.

Being older, stronger, and more experienced has been a big factor in our success this season. We didn't create the rules, we're just playing the game that was laid out. I love this

Class Act

Looking like Alberto will return to IU for the 2026 season.

Mother Marsh also tweeted this pic

Fisch...and I quote "What do you think of that, Paul BaldTrollDumb@$$?"

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6927575/2025/12/30/ndiana-hoosiers-defense-curt-cignetti-coaches-react/ “(Haines) gets all those sacks because he changes the look post-snap,” said a Big Ten running backs coach. “The quarterbacks think, ‘OK, I’m getting pressure, I’m gonna throw it right here, and then realize — ooh, he’s covered. Sack. He sucks to play against. “Their scheme, man, it’s so tough. They had us in a blender. They’re very multiple. They’re so good with fire zones, simulated pressures, do a good job of fitting the run, and Haines does such a great job of breaking his own tendencies. He does some stuff that is like NFL complicated. He does a great job of understanding what he’s put on film, and having a good feel for how you’re going to attack that so he can lay a trap and watch you walk right into it.” There's even a quote from an SEC coach in there.

As far as BFDs go, this is among the B’est of F’n Ds.

Felt like the thread deserved a new title

Indiana won a title in football before Purdue won a basketball title... LoL

Hoo Hoo Hoo chants breaking out over Pitbull talking about the city of Miami. There’s a LOT of IU fans here.

A good buddy's view from his seat:

After so many years of watching inept football, the last 2 years have been surreal. Beyond belief.

Zyn reporting that we’re trying to get Marsh to commit today. And a duo that’s already committed is trying to help. Hoover and Turbo/Schott?

All, As some mods are more and less active, we occasionally feel the need to add a new mod to help keep the board monitored and excellent. With that in mind, please welcome our new moderator to the board, the one, the only, the outstanding @Home Jersey!! @Home Jersey will receive double the salary we give Old Fart… in other words; double-nothing.

If someone would’ve told me in 2003 that IU would make the Final Four in football before basketball did again, I would have petitioned to have them committed. Crazy world.

ONCE AGAIN…… 3/4 of the Gameday dicks were wrong!!

This happens to be one of my favorite subjects. I was very young in 1975. I do remember exactly where I was when Indiana lost to Kentucky, and I sort of knew what it meant. The following year, the morning after Indiana won the title, I cried...saying my private goodbye to the seniors on that team who had become my heroes. By the time Indiana became "THAT" good, the expectations were there. And Indiana had won a title just 23 years prior. (to put that in perspective, it has been 1 season longer than that since IU last went to the final four. That thought blows me away) Winning was not "expected" before Bob Knight's arrival; however it was not as foreign as it has been to football. Then? He did arrive. And.... Assembly Hall by 1976 had a "feel." A smell. A sound. Certainly through the 1970's and 1980's, winning was a habit and every song the band played was predictable and familiar. The banners swayed from side to side, then hung on what amounted to a clothes line. Winning was expected, as was being in the Big Ten championship conversation. When Indiana was REALLY good, we all knew it and it wasn't ever unexpected. Winning it was a time or two, but we only had ~ 48 hours to absorb it once we made the final game. During the NCAA tournament, to win it, a team plays 6 games over 18 days or 2 1/2 weeks. Football? 3 games in 44 days (6 weeks). Lots more time between games to pontificate and anticipate. Add to it the uniqueness and unexpected nature of this over the last 25 months; AND the transfer portal at the same time, my personal opinion is this is FAR more exciting if only because it's so unbelievable. Maybe it's just more surreal with football now. More "drastic" in contrast to "what was," and definitely more immediate. More absolute. More obvious.

Dillon Thienemann now down 152-35 to Indiana the last ~13 months.

Yessir

Christian Watford @Cwat205 I don’t think I ever been more proud to wear IU apparel around Alabama.

Baby Megtron and MamaTron.

K Martin and Charlie B poised to be stars soon!

Feeling very blessed to have had these past two football seasons where we've played multiple "biggest game in program history" ... and again, tomorrow is the biggest game in program history (so far). The way Cig normally responds to those comments "it's the biggest game because it's the next game" gives me confidence in their preparation after a month off. Really hope we put the nation on notice by beating Bama in front of a large IU crowd. Excited, nervous, all that...

IU finished it non conference part of the schedule last night and will enter January 10-3(1-1). They missed out on 2 Q1a games away from home and a winnable Q2 road game. Moving forward they will have plenty of Q1 and Q2 opportunities at home and away. IUs predictive metrics are solid. Average around the 20s. Ius results based metrics are lower around the mid 50’s. Sos- 175 Non con-173 for an at-large team those are respectable numbers. If your non con sos is in the high 200’s or 300 then that could become a problem. IU didn’t do anything to hurt their resume however they didn’t do much to improve their resume either. They did get a win away from home which always helps( at large team usually needs 4 wins away from home to feel safe). They also didn’t earn any Q1 wins up until this point. Good news is that they play in the B1G and will have chances to get multiple Q1 wins. If you were expecting IU to compete with the upper level teams for a B1G title this year then in my opinion you are going to be disappointed. They don’t have the roster this year for that. In my opinion Sparty, Michigan, Purdue and Illinois are a step above the rest this year (Maybe Nebraska but I can’t go that far). IU has 6 games against the top 4 (2 home games). That leaves 12 games against the rest of the league which are more winnable games. Not saying they won’t win against those top 4 but those should be looked at as bonus games. Ius most important games will be against the other teams fighting for an at-large outside the top 4. IU gets Nebraska and Iowa at home and do not have away games against those 2. Those 2 games are probably the most important games on IUs schedule for now. Most on here and nationally said IU making the tourney would be a good start for Devries in his first year. That’s easily still on the table. Reminder even teams that are tourney locks (8-11 seed) always have flaws. 8 seeds are considered teams that are comfortably in the field and not on the bubble however if you look at some 8 seeds resume you are good to see a lot of red (losses). Are losses coming to IU? Yep but in my opinion some wins will be coming as well biggest surprise of the year so far for me IUs KenPom offensive efficiency-56 IUs KenPom defensive efficiency-16