2024 IUFB Season

[go iu bb]

It's really interesting (and quite different from the norm) seeing article after article saying IU is underrated and the victim of brand bias. One person went so far as saying they were the 2nd best team in the nation and several others were saying top 5. What a change. What a season.

 

[bigrod]

5 hours ago, Lebowski said:

At first I was upset about the ranking but after some thought and a night's rest, I think IUFB is in the right spot.  They are driving the Ferrari and that's the only thing you can hope for at this point in the season. 

Let's hope they take of business this Saturday. 

Yep, control what you can control. 

[Demo]

https://x.com/JoelKlattShow/status/1854322631215870384/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1854322631215870384&currentTweetUser=JoelKlattShow
 

Spectacular summary in 45 secs by Klatt. Yeah, IU can take care of this by just winning out. But that’s not really the point. The issue is how they’ve moved the selection process to this late in the season to eliminate pre-conceived opinions and yet have done nothing of the sort. The real issue is schools like Bama and Georgia have a margin for error that the IU’s and BYU’s don’t.

[Brass Cannon]

7 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/JoelKlattShow/status/1854322631215870384/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1854322631215870384&currentTweetUser=JoelKlattShow
 

Spectacular summary in 45 secs by Klatt. Yeah, IU can take care of this by just winning out. But that’s not really the point. The issue is how they’ve moved the selection process to this late in the season to eliminate pre-conceived opinions and yet have done nothing of the sort. The real issue is schools like Bama and Georgia have a margin for error that the IU’s and BYU’s don’t.

The really frustrating to me if the different criteria even in the rankings. Penn State has played a ranked opponent. They lost at home to the only good team they played yet they are somehow still elite 

[Demo]

1 minute ago, Brass Cannon said:

The really frustrating to me if the different criteria even in the rankings. Penn State has played a ranked opponent. They lost at home to the only good team they played yet they are somehow still elite 

The Penn St thing is so weird because even if you’re an eye test guy, and I always have been, and put the resume aside they haven’t looked particularly good against anyone.

[Hovadipo]

Patiently waiting for an update on the flavor of @johnsoniu’s coffee this morning. 

[MemphisHoosier]

With last night's victory, CCC and crew snapped a 3-game IU losing streak to Michigan, this is the second time this season Cig has done this (Maryland being the other.)  OSU remains our longest active B1G losing streak (28 straight), but it's great to see this team change the narrative.

Longest Active Conference Losing Streaks

28 - OSU

4- Iowa, Minney, and USC (loses were all OOC)

3 - Penn St., Purdue, and Rutgers

[johnsoniu]

58 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Patiently waiting for an update on the flavor of @johnsoniu’s coffee this morning. 

10-0 baby. No flavor of coffee could do this justice. I’ve been two fisting Jack on the rocks since 4 a.m. 

10 and freakin 0!!!!!!!

[LIHoosier]

6 in the Coaches Poll, how the hell is Penn St still ahead of us?

[Hovadipo]

1 minute ago, LIHoosier said:

6 in the Coaches Poll, how the hell is Penn St still ahead of us?

That damn Q1a loss to Ahia State is propping up these frauds. 

[Stuhoo]

46 minutes ago, johnsoniu said:

10-0 baby. No flavor of coffee could do this justice. I’ve been two fisting Jack on the rocks since 4 a.m. 

10 and freakin 0!!!!!!!

It’s because the most we can lose is one. If we lose that one we’re not in the conference championship game and therefore we still can only lose max one.

[LIHoosier]

AP Top 5diana! Still behind PSU cuz reasons 

[Hovadipo]

12 minutes ago, LIHoosier said:

AP Top 5diana! Still behind PSU cuz reasons 

We’ll get leapfrogged by UT if they beat UGA (or maybe the winner of that game regardless) but we shouldn’t have a very painful bye week. Let’s see if the committee stays in line with the AP Tuesday. 

[JerryYeagley23]

So if they’re rewarding PSU for a close loss to OSU even though they haven’t beaten anyone either. Even if we lose by a TD to OSU we should then jump PSU right? Because we would then have played a top-5 team and be a one loss team. It’s like we’re being penalized for our (hypothetical) loss coming after PSU’s. They really should be rewarding the perfect record more knowing they can move us down if/when the loss happens. 

[Hovadipo]

2 minutes ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

So if they’re rewarding PSU for a close loss to OSU even though they haven’t beaten anyone either. Even if we lose by a TD to OSU we should then jump PSU right? Because we would then have played a top-5 team and be a one loss team. It’s like we’re being penalized for our (hypothetical) loss coming after PSU’s. They really should be rewarding the perfect record more knowing they can move us down if/when the loss happens. 

If there’s any logic at all (there isn’t) we should have a little more margin cushion than PSU since it’s a road game for us. 

[LIHoosier]

5 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

We’ll get leapfrogged by UT if they beat UGA (or maybe the winner of that game regardless) but we shouldn’t have a very painful bye week. Let’s see if the committee stays in line with the AP Tuesday. 

We'll probably be 6th overall but be in 8th as the last home team since BYU will move up to the 3rd auto bid and Miami/SMU/Boise? will be the 4th best conference leader and we'll be placed against ND, UGA, or Bama: The return of the 2019 staff.

[Home Jersey]

1 minute ago, LIHoosier said:

We'll probably be 6th overall but be in 8th as the last home team since BYU will move up to the 3rd auto bid and Miami/SMU/Boise? will be the 4th best conference leader and we'll be placed against ND, UGA, or Bama: The return of the 2019 staff.

I’d be so ready for a home game vs ND! 

[JerryYeagley23]

I feel like all the coverage I’ve read nobody is talking about the obvious here too: the big 12 and ACC suck. Them getting an automatic 3 and 4 seed is screwing up what the matchups should be and creating easy paths for some of the traditional powers coming from the 10-12 spots. Just rank them 1-12 and play ball!

[LIHoosier]

4 minutes ago, JerryYeagley23 said:

I feel like all the coverage I’ve read nobody is talking about the obvious here too: the big 12 and ACC suck. Them getting an automatic 3 and 4 seed is screwing up what the matchups should be and creating easy paths for some of the traditional powers coming from the 10-12 spots. Just rank them 1-12 and play ball!

This year and maybe next are essentially trial runs. Several articles I just saw have many different options of determining the top 12 or possibly 14 like multiple auto bids for the SEC and B1G, your idea of just top 12, or having a mix of the 2 where other conferences just slot in where they're ranked. 

[AZ Hoosier]

Hoosiers move up in both polls after the Michigan win... 5th in AP, 6th in the Coaches Poll. The AP poll now has FOUR B1G teams in the top 5...