Lebowski

Probably got the vote from Lanning.

Yep!

Works for me. Keep doubting us.

Wheels are completely off in Happy Valley.

The D. Aside from the broken coverage, total domination.

The Dude abides

Game 6 in the books. IUFB 30 Oregon 20 The D. That is all. Bowl eligibility. Next game: Old Brass Spittoon

Huge win for the program. Statement win for the Herbstreit's to finally sfu and respect.

Brutal to watch man.

No clue but #1 is getting all kinds of lucky non-calls. It's tough to watch. I don't even understand DPI anymore.

It was 35 to 10 going into half. Take away that busted coverage and it's 35 IU 3 UI going into half. 20 O$U 3 UI going into half. And UI has been shooting themselves in the foot. Credit O$U for those mistakes but IUFB is good and has a realistic chance against any FBS football team on the planet.

Well, let's hope they don't improve too much! Lol.

UCLA, oh man, they're playing some good football right now.

It's freakin' awesome no doubt. I do recall IUFB getting some media coverage during the days of AT carrying the rock during his Heisman run. I don't know if it's all up in your face like it is today but we also didn't have access to the internet back in those days like we do today. Bottom line, coaching matters.

Thanks for sharing. I really wish the public had access to the true numbers.

Does anyone have solid information about NIL funds this season? Like really solid info. Send me a DM if you don't feel comfortable going public about it. I'm wondering if we're competing with Oregon. The perception is Oregon has a truck load.

https://collegefootballplayoff.com/news/2025/8/20/selection-committee-prepares-for-2025-26.aspx Changes for the upcoming season include enhancements to the tools that the selection committee uses to assess schedule strength and how teams perform against their schedule. The current schedule strength metric has been adjusted to apply greater weight to games against strong opponents. An additional metric, record strength, has been added to the selection committee's analysis to go beyond a team's schedule strength to assess how a team performed against that schedule. This metric rewards teams defeating high-quality opponents while minimizing the penalty for losing to such a team. Conversely, these changes will provide minimal reward for defeating a lower-quality opponent while imposing a greater penalty for losing to such a team. UCLA would still need to run the table in my opinion. That was a bad bad loss. Also, other 10-2 schools in other conferences would need to have a worse 'record strength metric' than PSU. And everyone and their mother knows the SEC is so effin' top heavy on this stupid SOS poop that they'll likely squeeze in a 10-2 SEC school over PSU.

So who do they leap frog based on what the CFP committee said back in August. O$U - 2 losses at Illinois and at Michigan UM - 2 losses at OU and at SC SC - 2 losses at Illinois and at Oregon Illinois - 2 losses at IUFB and at Washington/Maryland IU - 1 loss at PSU I think UCLA would have to win 8 games for PSU to get in at 10-2.

The PSU game might not be what we are hoping it will be. By the time we play them they might already have 4 losses. Who knows man. The best way to avoid all this poop is to just beat every team.

The committee released a statement this year stating that they're going to use 'enhanced metrics' to help evaluate schedule strength this year (I'm calling it "The IUFB Rule"). For example, using the FPI (which I don't like but it's just an example) PSU's SOR and SOS is 79 as of today. All the 5 other schools I mentioned have better schedule strength than this metric. And the ESPN Kirk Herbsuck narrative from the start of IUFB's loss to ND in the CFP last year has been about losses should mean more doesn't apply to losing to a UCLA type team, unless of course they win more games like they did last weekend. Based on the selection committee adjustments made this year, PSU is pretty much out of it, regardless. Let me put it this way, if they get in, it's due to the brand and not the metrics. That UCLA loss most likely sealed their fate.

Updated after this past weekend. You can dive deeper here. Our rushing game doesn't look promising against their run defense. But there's a reason they play the game folks. PSU weighed extremely heavy for Oregon. Parker Fleming verifies this with his tweet. https://twitter.com/statsowar/status/1975256393948217829

I don't think it's as cut and dry this year. There will most likely be a lot more 10-2 teams this year compared to last year. With this scenario above it would also possibly mean that IUFB, O$U, UM, SC and Illini all finish 10-2 as well. The UCLA loss puts PSU out of the question in this case. Basically if there are multiple B1G schools that finish 10-2, PSU drops out. Even if they're the only 10-2 school in the B1G. They won't be able to leap frog another 2 loss school in another conference. O$U last year was the exception. PSU this year is last year's O$U because they won't be playing in Indianapolis for the conference championship. They're pretty much done. It was a bad bad loss. But let's not put the cart before the horse, there's so much more football to be played.

All this talk of 10-2. One game at a time folks. Long way to the end. PSU is probably done. Unless they run the table they are basically out of cfp contention. Even if they run they table they might still be out. That loss is worse then the Bama loss to OU last year. Bad loss to a bad team. If IUFB handles business, they'll be playing in Indianapolis for the conference championship. A lot can happen in between now and then though. But the stars are aligning for our beloved Hoosiers.

Bielema was arrogant enough to think his OL was better than most of the country. At least he was talking that poop during the entire offseason. And everyone and their mother believed the lie.