LamarCheeks

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The thing that stood out to me was this ... "Indiana legend Luke Goode ..."

Kickoff is less than 12 hours away and I'm not seeing a game thread, so here we go .. ISU is coached by Bill Mallory's son and former IU assistant Curt, who is in his eighth season in Terre Haute. Sycamores are 2-0 with wins over McKendree and Eastern Illinois. Hoosiers are favored by 45.5 (FanDuel). We last played the Trees in 2023, winning 41-7. On BTN, Lisa Byington is handling play-by-play, with Jared Thomas the analyst and Melanie Ricks on the sidelines. And can we just go ahead and say what an obnoxious starting time this is. I don't like college football on Friday nights in the first place -- but 6:30? Whoever heard of that? That's 5:30 in some parts of Indiana. If you HAVE to give us a Friday night game, at least give us a much more reasonable 8 or 8:30 kickoff. 6:30 is just stupid ... Preview & game notes Live stats

Old Dominion 21 Virginia Tech 0 midway through second quarter. Hokies coach ain't gonna be around much longer ...

That's not an interception.

Cooper Duper!

Black trotted untouched into the end zone. Unfortunately, he didn't have the ball (though the cameraman thought he did).

Yep -- but why does UCLA need to start at 10? That's 7 in L.A., which is probably as annoying for those folks as 6:30 is for us. Why not start the UCLA game at 11 or even 11:30? That's 8 or 8:30 out west. I suppose BTN knows they will have a very limited audience that late. But it's UCLA football. Very few people in the East or Midwest care anyway. I'll probably have it on because I stay up late and usually like to have a ballgame on if I can. But I'm guessing I'll be one of the very few in the Eastern time zone.

Hoosiers 55 Sycamores 13

I have watched a ton of college football over the years, and I can honestly say -- I've never seen a 1-0 halftime score!

X-rays were negative, so perhaps McFadden's injury isn't as bad as was initially thought. https://x.com/MikeGarafolo/status/1964762115564261528

Ugh, McFadden carted off in middle of first quarter against Commanders. Leg in air cast. Didn't look good. https://x.com/GiantsNationPod/status/1964741695263891894

From my neck of the woods ... The Michael Vick experiment isn't going terribly well so far. 3rd quarter: Virginia State 16, Norfolk State 10 VSU is Division II.

Fernando was thrilled that it's the first time brothers have thrown TD passes in a game at IU. I can't imagine that's happened very often throughout college football history -- let alone at IU.

Cig's winning percentage at IU -- .867. Not too shabby!

I realize it's a blowout and it's Kennesaw State, but Little Mendoza has shown a nice arm and nice touch so far. He played last year against Western Illinois -- but I don't remember that.

Same. I was fearing the myriad options: Achillies, ACL, high ankle sprain, broken ankle, broken leg ...

Little Mendoza!

I know many said keep Fernando in there and let the offense keep rolling ... But I say give him the rest of the day off. QB2 should get some PT next week, but once we enter B1G play, who knows? Would be nice to get him some time today -- and make sure 'Nando doesn't get hurt.

Nice touch, Fernando! Damn -- it's coming back, though.

Not to get too greedy, but that was a horse-collar tackle.

OMAR! He almost ran out of gas. LOL!

Hoosiers 38 10