2024 IUFB Season

[DChoosier]

2 hours ago, Dave from Dayton said:

ESPN Power ranking has IU #26.  2024 College Football Power Index - ESPN

That is ahead of Purdue, Maryland, Rutgers, Illinois, Nebraska, Iowa...and on and on...

CBS has IU #74. College Football Rankings 2024 - CBS Sports Rankings - CBSSports.com

Just keep winning.

 

ESPN has ND 10th in spite of losing at home to 28.5 point underdog NIU….

If IU wore ND uniforms we would probably be a top 15 team..LOL

[LIHoosier]

There's one coach out there respecting IU...

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

[Demo]

[mamasa]

Didn't want to start the game thread (we haven't had much success when I've started them lol), but IU opened as 1.5 favorite over UCLA per FanDuel

[Demo]

 

Strangest thing, you beat somebody’s brains out and your performance scores are pretty high,

[Artie86]

Pretty cool seeing the BIG IU truck loading up for UCLA....

https://x.com/i/status/1833880515830558832

 

[LIHoosier]

33 minutes ago, Artie86 said:

Pretty cool seeing the BIG IU truck loading up for UCLA....

https://x.com/i/status/1833880515830558832

 

30 hours, 0ver 2,000 miles. The new reality

[Artie86]

 This article has one expert, Bill Connelly, putting IU in the top 12 season’s end, playoff pick at # 11 after 3 games…. 
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/page/playoffpredictions091424/college-football-playoff-picks-predictions-week-3

[LIHoosier]

Up to a whopping 7 points in the latest coaches poll

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/football/ncaaf/coaches-poll

Edit: and 13 votes in the AP poll, effectively 34th

[LamarCheeks]

Didn't necessarily think we'd crack the Top 25 -- nor did I think we necessarily deserved to -- but I thought we might get more than 13 voting points. 

Oh well, maybe better to stay a little UTR. 

https://apnews.com/hub/ap-top-25-college-football-poll

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

In terms of getting votes and support in the polls, history is definitely not on our side.

[Stuhoo]

Worth noting:

We brought in WRs Miles Cross, Myles Price, and Ke-Shawn Williams from the portal…

on the same day.

 

That was a helluva day.

 

[Artie86]

How many on here (besides myself) are wondering if upcoming teams on our schedule are now looking at IU and thinking, "Crap, ,.....this one's definitely, not gonna be easy!"..? 

[Dave from Dayton]

22 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

Up to a whopping 7 points in the latest coaches poll

https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/football/ncaaf/coaches-poll

Edit: and 13 votes in the AP poll, effectively 34th

Yeah, and 3 different polls have IU (AFCA Coaches) 40th, (CBS) 37th and (AP) 34th. 

Just keep winning.

[HoosierX]

15 hours ago, Stuhoo said:

Worth noting:

We brought in WRs Miles Cross, Myles Price, and Ke-Shawn Williams from the portal…

on the same day.

 

That was a helluva day.

 

Speaking of receivers, was McCulley playing on Saturday?

[Stuhoo]

3 minutes ago, HoosierX said:

Speaking of receivers, was McCulley playing on Saturday?

Yes, but only on the goal line package. He drew a pass interference call in the end zone on his only target, which was excellent.

[Demo]

 

[Stuhoo]

32 minutes ago, Demo said:

 

Kurtis Heisman

[Artie86]

34 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

Kurtis Heisman

That is something that crossed my mind this morning....lol

That is totally not out of the realm of possibility! It reminds me of how much Penix improved his game and stock when he transferred to Washington.