DChoosier

I shudder when I think of our departing 8 starting senior defensive players and how our D will look next year. Mark my words.....2056 is our year!!!!

High ratings and you can get a ticket on stubhub for a whopping $6.00

Something has to give as the two teams are a combined 0-12 in the Big Ten. Indiana - 24 Illinios - 13

Yes, I would especially like to replace the "I have never even heard of the school" games like Houston Baptist with Ball State, Evansville etc.

I agree. UK used to be the bottom of the barrel for me but now it is... University of No Classes. UNC (University of No Classes) is really a scumbag program.

College football teams have 80 or so recruits and the rankings of those recruiting classes is a huge factor. It is true that Scales, Covington etc are better than their rankings, and that some 4 and 5 stars do not live up to their billing, but rankings absolutely DO MATTER. Every year some players underperform while others overperform, compared to their rankings, but when you recruit 80--100 players over 4 years your odds of success are much, much better when you land a number of highly recruited players. A few years ago a recruiting service looked at the teams in the final college playoff game and every single final 2 teams in the previous 10 years averaged being one of the the best 10 recruiting classes over those past ten years. Ie..highly recruited classes equaled being in the hunt. We have some good players but no where near the talent level of the teams in our division.

Archie had to know that accepting the "burden" to develop a powerful team was a prerequisite of taking the job. He knows that everyone is expecting a way overdue 6th banner at some point in his tenure.

IU 24 MD -10

MSU -27 IU - 17 usual caveat.....hope I am wrong.

Yup. no mistakes is big but wish there was a way for him and Cobbs to be introduced to each other.

Novel idea. Play Ellison more.

We "can" beat them but in the past 10 years of BL and KW (recent history) we went 18-63 in the BT and beat one team that finished the conference with a better than .500 record.One in 10 years. We beat two with a .500 record (4-4) and the rest of the wins were against IL, historically bad PU teams, etc. In other words......We are due :)

When we had decent OL's, RB's and QB's we had horrible defenses. now we have a decent (not great) defense but the OL, RB's and QB's are not as good as the Sudfeld and Ben C years.

UM - 20 IU - 13 would looove to be wrong.

IU 48 Other Team 10

You mean,,,,,increase their 6 figure offer. This is the SEC. They are not going to let a little thing like the FBI get in the way.

He did use very good form when he took the knee. A fundamentally sound kneel down. Kudos to the team for settling down after a comically bad start. Good to see they did not go in the tank.

Our odds of victory seem to be diminishing.

Why wait that long?

4th and 14 but we did not turn it over. Thats PROGRESS in my book !!!!!!!!!

In the prediction thread I picked PSU to score 41 points. Just to clarify, I meant 41 in the first half :)

It was Westbrook but we were the kicking, not receiving, team (ie he was not in there to return a kick like Barkley).

Good news for now but once the Feds make Fair "sing" who knows what will come out. Not real easy for me to believe that Fair and Petino were involved but Johnson was not.

I would bet Bruce Pearl will be gone soon. At least Auburn fans can feel good that their football program is clean (like the rest of the SEC :) )

PSU - 41 IU - 24