#5 IUFB @ #2 Ohio State - 11/23/24 at Noon on FOX

[Demo 20,032]

18 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

Finebaum will defend the Ole Miss loss because Florida was a very, very strong 5-5 SEC team heading into todays game 

This should be funny, but I will not be surprised if Ole Miss is 12 this week and IU is 13. I’m probably the most pessimistic guy around here on this question, but I’m convinced that the committee wants no part of IU’s strength of schedule and losing today while not looking particularly good will give them the excuse they need to leave them out. 

[Certified Sunshine Pumper 9,189]

Just now, Demo said:

This should be funny, but I will not be surprised if Ole Miss is 12 this week and IU is 13. I’m probably the most pessimistic guy around here on this question, but I’m convinced that the committee wants no part of IU’s strength of schedule and losing today while not looking particularly good will give them the excuse they need to leave them out. 

Then why were we #5 to begin the week? 

[str8baller 5,257]

2 minutes ago, IUHoosier5 said:

That Ole Miss loss may be all that we need. 

I think so. Haven’t really mapped it out but it likely should. You can get 4 sec, 4 big, b12, acc, nd and one other darling in now. 
 

No one else has argument if things play out as they should, imo. Last thing you want is ND to lose close to Army. Miami close loss. AM to upset Texas, etc…. Then have army be in a great story and IU, Boise, smu potential 2 loss Texas, Texas am, Miami and ND jockeying for 3 or 4 remaining spots.  IUs resume would be shakey there

[DChoosier 8,460]

3 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I think so. Haven’t really mapped it out but it likely should. You can get 4 sec, 4 big, b12, acc, nd and one other darling in now. 
 

No one else has argument if things play out as they should, imo. Last thing you want is ND to lose close to Army. Miami close loss. AM to upset Texas, etc…. Then have army be in a great story and IU, Boise, smu potential 2 loss Texas, Texas am, Miami and ND jockeying for 3 or 4 remaining spots.  IUs resume would be shakey there

Do you think we go ahead of PSU if they lose to Minny today?

[cthomas 6,478]

Just now, Demo said:

This should be funny, but I will not be surprised if Ole Miss is 12 this week and IU is 13. I’m probably the most pessimistic guy around here on this question, but I’m convinced that the committee wants no part of IU’s strength of schedule and losing today while not looking particularly good will give them the excuse they need to leave them out. 

Perspective here. No one expected IU to be in an important game in November. CCC took a bunch of undervalued players and developed a very good team. We lost today to the best team that money could buy. The offense struggled but, to me, the defense played a good game given the talent discrepancy. OSU has over 50% of their roster 5* players. Given our investment in football, we will close the gap. It's going to take time but we have the right people in the right places to be successful. We're not going back to traditional IU football. It hurts to lose this game. They are arguably the best team in college football. No shame in losing at their place. We'll move on and take it out on Purdue next week and finish a truly remarkable season.

[Demo 20,032]

1 minute ago, Certified Sunshine Pumper said:

Then why were we #5 to begin the week? 

Because they were an undefeated top 2 conference team who’d beaten up the teams on their schedule and deserved respect for that despite not playing anyone who’s actually any good. Now they’ve played 1 good team and got handled pretty good. So now they don’t have the undefeated element and it definitely put a dent in the eye test element because, at least to these untrained eyes, OSU looked like they beat them 10 times out of 10. Not saying that’s my argument, it’s not and I think they should be in with some cushion, just saying that’s an argument I can see winning. 

[str8baller 5,257]

4 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

Do you think we go ahead of PSU if they lose to Minny today?

I would think it would be near automatic. PSU didn’t really play that much better than us versus osu and they were home. 

[Class of '66 Old Fart 84,774]

FWIW

Danny Kanell @dannykanell

Indiana held Ohio State to 316 Total Yards of offense. That is the second lowest output of the season for the Buckeyes. Two plays were the difference of the game. Fumbled punt. Punt return TD. Indiana more than proved they belonged today.

[cbp4iu 1,476]

Things to take away from this game.

#1 OL needs 2/3 more upgrades going into next year. Lose a couple linemen anyways but wouldn’t hurt to find a couple studs in the portal.
#2 Need to continue to get players that can play big boy ball and develop them. 
#3 Athletes… Athletes… Athletes… They help. 
#4 This is year 1 of a process. Winning helps a lot. We need to win recruiting battles and keep winning on the field. This team is a start of a what could be if you invest and keep bringing in the resources.

[RoadRage 1,852]

If we beat Purdue next week we are in the CFP, I don't see any way they can keep us out, but we will probably have to play at Alabama or Georgia, but just getting in will be a heck of an accomplishment!

[str8baller 5,257]

2 minutes ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

FWIW

Danny Kanell @dannykanell

Indiana held Ohio State to 316 Total Yards of offense. That is the second lowest output of the season for the Buckeyes. Two plays were the difference of the game. Fumbled punt. Punt return TD. Indiana more than proved they belonged today.

I agree with this…said as much earlier. Defense and running game looked top 10. 
 

With that said Kannell is a known SEC antagonist. Which I respect. But I wouldn’t take his comments as what will emerge as the consensus; quite the opposite most likely.

[DChoosier 8,460]

6 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I agree with this…said as much earlier. Defense and running game looked top 10. 
 

With that said Kannell is a known SEC antagonist. Which I respect. But I wouldn’t take his comments as what will emerge as the consensus; quite the opposite most likely.

Man it would have “looked better” if OSU wouldn’t have scored that last TD.

That being said I don’t hold it against Ryan as some do. If we are mad about him scoring the last TD maybe we should not have tried an onside kick or kicked it out of bounds, or given up a 50 yard run up the middle.

We handed them several touchdowns. 

[Hovadipo 56,257]

23 minutes ago, str8baller said:

I think so. Haven’t really mapped it out but it likely should. You can get 4 sec, 4 big, b12, acc, nd and one other darling in now. 
 

No one else has argument if things play out as they should, imo. Last thing you want is ND to lose close to Army. Miami close loss. AM to upset Texas, etc…. Then have army be in a great story and IU, Boise, smu potential 2 loss Texas, Texas am, Miami and ND jockeying for 3 or 4 remaining spots.  IUs resume would be shakey there

Won’t be shakier than 2-loss ND with both losses to G5 teams, being a de facto G5 team itself. Don’t care where it comes, 2-loss ND will not make it in, especially over a 1-loss B1G team. Boise should be the one that doesn’t want that scenario to play out imo. 

[AZ Hoosier 7,199]

If Michigan can beat tOSU next week and we thrash the Toiletmakers next week as expected, we still make the B1G championship game vs Oregon, right?

[southsidehoosier 5,027]

1 minute ago, AZ Hoosier said:

If Michigan can beat tOSU next week and we thrash the Toiletmakers next week as expected, we still make the B1G championship game vs Oregon, right?

Penn State would need to lose too I believe 

[BtownStrength 1,263]

Just now, AZ Hoosier said:

If Michigan can beat tOSU next week and we thrash the Toiletmakers next week as expected, we still make the B1G championship game vs Oregon, right?

Depends on what happens with Penn St i think? We have 3 common opponents in OSU, UCLA, and Maryland. If Penn State wins out they may have the spot. 

[Hoosierfan1901 6,301]

2 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

If Michigan can beat tOSU next week and we thrash the Toiletmakers next week as expected, we still make the B1G championship game vs Oregon, right?

Right now:

Win against Purdue

OSU loses to Michigan (At Michigan)

PSU loses to either Minnesota or Maryland 

[RoadRage 1,852]

7 minutes ago, AZ Hoosier said:

If Michigan can beat tOSU next week and we thrash the Toiletmakers next week as expected, we still make the B1G championship game vs Oregon, right?

Penn State would still need to lose as I understand it?

[RoadRage 1,852]

11 minutes ago, DChoosier said:

Man it would have “looked better” if OSU wouldn’t have scored that last TD.

That being said I don’t hold it against Ryan as some do. If we are mad about him scoring the last TD maybe we should not have tried an onside kick or kicked it out of bounds, or given up a 50 yard run up the middle.

We handed them several touchdowns. 

I agree....Ryan did the right thing, we should have kicked away and used our timeouts. We need to run the score up on Purdue as much as possible, I realize this is the bucket game and anything can happen, but if we have the chance we need to win by a large margin!

[JerryYeagley23 3,642]

Good game. Not unexpected. But, lord, I hope and pray, that Cig remembers that Ryan Day took that touchdown while we were conceding a kneel down and remembers it for the day our talent catches up to our coaching. “Run it up Herman, leave no doubt.” Man I hope this comes to pass.