DChoosier

I agree but next year we get OSU and USC at home and PSU/UM the following year.

I agree. We could have easily laid 77+ on them.

I’m good with where we are rated. I think Texas, who is just in front of us, is overrated but aside from them being in front of us I don’t see much “why in the hell are they ranked that high”. Pleasantly surprised we are above TT as their win at Utah was also quite impressive. The important thing is that we are ranked in “Playoff territory” and everything will play out just fine as long as our future results are positive. Really need to take care of Iowa.

One of the funniest/saddest clips of the day was Arch Manning scoring on a 5 yard run and then leaning down and taunting a Sam Houston State player that was on the ground. LOL The $6,000,000 pre-season Heisman favorite taking it to friggin Sam Houston State. What an accomplishment! HA !

Watched SECPN College Football Final fully expecting them to somewhat dismiss IU’s win as a victory over an overrated Illinois team. I was wrong. Much to my surprise they were very complimentary including Joey Galloway who didn’t believe in IU pretty much all last year. No mention of the schedule etc but rather just listed positives including saying we could likely be better than last year. Very nice/surprising to hear. Iowa is the next “must-win game” (LOL) in order to keep positive momentum and narrative. We are in great shape if we beat Iowa and then beat, or are very competitive against, Oregon.

So do I. 70 Baybee. The Illinois head coach, currently seen wearing a grill cover, put 83 on us when he was the Wisconsin Coach. Yes…I hold a grudge.

Just to clarify…. My prediction league score was for the first half.

The 4/5 $ECPN Game Day idiots that picked Illinois to win said IU wouldn’t be able to handle the Illinois physicality. LOL!

HUGE decision. Going for 4th and 1 ends up leading to a TD!!! Love it !!!

I know some don’t like Gus Johnson but I think he’d bring a lot more excitement/big environment vibe than these guys. They sound like they are at work while Gus would act as if he was at the greatest event in the history of sports.

NBC isn’t saying anything or running any info along the bottom of the screen about the IU game…WTF EDIT: NBC just said IU game will be on NBC unless in South Bend, Lafayette etc.

Crap ND-PU now not starting until 7:00

Why the delay ?

Two interesting sets of numbers: UCF 27 - UNC 3 in the third quarter $30,000,000 - Belichiks payout if fired.

He will get a 7 figure buyout to add to his 8 figure buyout.

UCF beating UNC 20-3 at the half…LOL SEC Arkansas loses to Memphis Clemsons season is effectively over after losing to 17.5 point underdog Syracuse. Some good things happening today.

Wow. Aside from Scott how many of the Illinois guys out are “key” players ?

Funny tweet during todays Clemson weather delay due to lightening…. UPDATE: After being locked up with Tom Allen for 30 minutes, the #Clemson defense would rather take their changes against the lightning.

If IU was playing a University of Evansville frat team I’m pretty sure Saban would pick the frat.

7 more torturous hours until kickoff. Lets go !!!

As you stated 4 out of 5 of the ESPN SEC pundits picked Illinois to win BUT…..I predict that when IU beats Illinois all 4 of them will make a u-turn and say Indiana beat a bad/overrated Illinois team.

Just briefly watched ESPN College Game Day and they did a segment called “intriguing undefeated teams”. They listed 10 teams none of which were IU or Illinois….LOL

Can’t wait to see the buzz at the rock, how we compete in the trenches and Mendoza’s performance against quality competition!! Counting down the hours!!! Kind of funny/interesting that this is one of the biggest football games in IU history and we have 2 1/2 pages of pre-game posts vs 5 pages for the IU basketball schedule…

They do play the games when they are told to. I have traveled the three time zones a gazillion times and it does have some impact. Why give a home team an additional advantage? And yes, I understand that in reality the only three things that matter are money, money and money.

It’s bad/challenging enough that the Big Ten “student”-athletes have to travel coast to coast but I wish the BT had the gonads to have a little control over the tv times. MSU is traveling to the west coast and has an 8:00 pm kickoff which is 11:00 pm their time. West coast teams have traveled east and had noon kickoffs which is an equally BS kickoff of 9:00 am their time. Yo. Big Ten. It’s not that hard. When a team from the east travels west the kickoff’s should be between noon and 5:00 (3-8:00 EST). When west coast teams travel east the kickoffs should be between 3:00 and 8:00 (12:00-5:00 PST). It’s not that difficult. Michigan State, as an example, should not be playing this weeks game until 2:00 am EST.