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Gotta have better awareness than that.

No need to worry just yet. CKW still has the blinders on with Lagow. We are playing to our strengths with our offensive line. Against a G5 team, no reason we should be able to run all over them. Come conference play the playbook will be opened up.

Listening to the game on radio, can't wait to see the video replay on the Westbrook catch. The radio announcers were positive Lagow overthrew Westbrook.

Lamar Jackson for Louisville is putting up Madden like stats. Only the first half and look what he's done! Louisville has a brutal schedule, but I'm really looking forward to Lamar Jackson vs. Greg Ward of Houston. Houston should be undefeated then as well.

Will be a good test for our run defense. Ball State ran all over GSU. Both teams will want to assert their run game.

27-24 IU

Ole Miss pulled a UK last night with a major choke job. Alabama is going to run that division then blow out FL/TN in the SEC Championship. Of course, ESPN will hype it up as FL/TN actually having a chance. The "SEC beating each other up in conference play" is code for "we all get beat up by Alabama".

Anyone heard anything about how Mike Neu is doing at Ball State? Did he change the offense? I know Riley Neal is a very talented QB. Being the former QB coach of the Saints, the unknown of Neu scares me, especially someone of his credentials working with a talent like Neal. This will be our most difficult out of conference game.

My problem with ND is the sense of elitism and near consistent level of hypocriticalness. Obviously not from everyone or all encompassing, but just from my observations. For example: bragging how good they in football based on their history, yet no championships in nearly 30 years. I hate the "we're a National School" or the "we're above being a Midwest, Big 10 school" attitude. Further, I can't stand how their fans claim football "independence" and wear it like a badge of honor. Their president comes out and takes a moral high road stating if the NCAA pays players ND will go D-3 like Carnegie Mellon. Yet, the school has sold out to the ACC to keep up revenue wise and is only independent by a mere technicality. Then they go on the invest $500M in their football stadium. They aren't any morally superior than any other top program. I've heard even of bragging about being a Marianite school looking down on Franciscan, Dominican and Jesuit Catholic schools (I'm Catholic and don't get this). History is great and has its place in a program's ranking and prestige, but it's not an excuse for claiming elitism today. Especially when your last championship was before many of your fans were born, much less a bulk of your championships coming before the advent of the forward pass. Finally, apologies to the knowledgable ND fans, the majority are legitimate fans I'm sure, but the fan base does have a lot of front running fans, like the New York Yankees or Dallas Cowboys, who have never even been to South Bend. Probably couldn't point it out on a map.

I always love seeing ND lose!

As a Ravens fan I love to hear this! Justin Forsett got cut. I am not thrilled about Javorius Allen or Lorenzo Taliaferro (currently on the PUP). Currently Terrance West and Allen are the only healthy backs on the Ravens active roster. There could be a future opportunity for Houston, especially if he can play special teams.

Coach Allen's kid definitely seems like a leader. Love how he's trying to recruit Florida guys to IU.

Haha that's one of the best vids I've seen in awhile. Spot on.

One more thought on the pUKe game for anyone who has friends/family/enemies that are pUKe fans and you want to send a zinger. Shannon Dawson, UK's OC last season was fired this offseason. The guy was completely thrown under the bus and blamed for all of UK's offensive problems. Dawson is now the OC for Southern Miss... http://kentuckysportsradio.com/football-2/shannon-dawson-got-a-gatorade-bath-after-the-game/ Finally the best pUKe troll might be by former football coach Hal Mumme: http://kentuckysportsradio.com/football-2/hal-mummes-facebook-status-isnt-making-us-feel-any-better/

Wow can't believe UK lost. My lil bro is an alum and a huge fan. I noticed the texts stop coming in. I figured it was a blowout. Probably won't text him for a few days... Overall very weak day for the SEC.

Of course he would never leave. He's on the hot seat this season. Given Sumlin is an alum, I'm sure their new AD would go after Sumlin if he got fired.

Texas AandM scores the OT upset against Top 20 UCLA. Rather see AandM win and Sumlin stay there so Purdon't doesn't get him.

Arkansas is against the ropes versus L-Tech.

I'm so tired of SEC fans riding the coat tails of Alabama and claiming they are the best conference. Miss State lost to Southern Alabama today, South Carolina nearly lost to Vanderbilt (albeit Vandy is well coached and improved), and Tennessee nearly lost to Appalachian State. I'm rooting for Wisconsin, even if they have annoying accents.

This Wisconsin LSU game is lit. Just heard 20K LSU fans there in Wisconsin. Incredible. The rest are Wisconsin fans (60k or so). Sold out. Love these opening weekend match ups at "neutral" sites.

I've heard a rumor that Texas is supporting Houston to the Big 12. Something about UT buying land in Downtown Houston for a UT Campus in exchange for sponsoring UH membership? I agree though the conference would be dumb not to add UH. They've proven they can compete. Along with BYU IMO.

The first half of the game has lived up to the hype. Lit atmosphere in Houston. The Big XII would be smart to grab Houston, along with BYU IMO. Both schools would strengthen the conference.

Sad to see his IU playing career is over. Dominique was a huge four star get for us, in state nonetheless. However, it is very nice to see that he is happy staying on and that he'll graduate from IU and always be a Hoosier! I hope that he does awesome on the field at his new school (unless it's against us) and possibly get a master's degree since he has two years of eligibility remaining.

Good points, Tim. Sudfeld had a few slow starts as well in his career, especially with accuracy. Looking ahead, the Ball State game will probably be more difficult than the Wake Forest game. Wake's offense looked absolutely anemic (178 total yards) versus Tulane's defense (albeit Tulane has a pretty good defense). But Tulane had a ten minute TOP advantage and rushed the ball 47 times. They only had 146 yards and couldn't get into the end zone, but if we get 40+ rushes, imagine what our rushing attack and B1G's best offensive line will do to them? The Ball State game will be a great test for our secondary. Hopefully we'll have a pretty lit crowd.

On the Oakes missed field goal: the broadcast showed CKW and other coaches pulling Ian Thomas aside immediately. I am not sure if he gave up a pressure or missed an assignment that lead to the miss. Loved what I saw out of the defense! We let up one big rush and one big pass play (not for TDs!), but we made FIU work for every other yard and were tight in the redzone. Got three turnovers as well, that's our formula for success. From a technical standpoint, it was great seeing guys not completely out of position and assignment like we have the past few seasons. Coach Allen looks to have good communication. On offense: we rushed the ball 52 times. Redding averaged over 6 yards with 22 carries. Team didn't have a run over 20 yards. The offensive line will be solid, but will we have a guy that can break longer runs? Tevin could. Jordan Howard didn't have great speed but he could bull through the second level and get 20-30 yard runs consistently. I like Redding and Majette a lot but here's to hoping Camion Patrick heals quick. No ways around it, Lagow looked rough in the beginning. Good to see his success on the last two drives, but he's going to need to settle down and set on his throws. Accuracy is not there yet, and he was late on many passes, but he threw some strikes downfield. He seems to have good chemistry with Nick Westbrook. We need to get Ricky Jones more involved. Getting Cobbs back will help a lot.