2025 IUFB Season

[Brass Cannon]

1 minute ago, Rico said:

ND needs to pray that there aren't many SEC/B1G teams sitting at 10-2.

They will 100% screw us and give it to ND if they get the chance 

[TheWatShot]

Anyone ever heard of Vaughn Dalzell? He has his own rankings with NBC Sports. He has Bama at #4. Has IU at #20. (Yes, twenty)

 

https://www.nbcsports.com/college-football/news/2025-college-football-rankings-week-6-top-25-new-no-1-oregon-alabama-and-ole-miss-shake-up-polls

[Rico]

Just now, Brass Cannon said:

They will 100% screw us and give it to ND if they get the chance 

I was so hoping Washington would beat the Bucknuts.

[Rico]

15 minutes ago, TheWatShot said:

Anyone ever heard of Vaughn Dalzell? He has his own rankings with NBC Sports. He has Bama at #4. Has IU at #20. (Yes, twenty)

 

https://www.nbcsports.com/college-football/news/2025-college-football-rankings-week-6-top-25-new-no-1-oregon-alabama-and-ole-miss-shake-up-polls

Never heard of him.  I looked him up.  He appears to be a betting analyst.

[LIHoosier]

Up to 8th in the AP Poll, over (gasp) Texas 

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

[LamarCheeks]

New AP rankings ...  

[TTT]

Oregon is close to a two touchdown favorite vs IU in a couple weeks.  Solid win to blowout win for Oregon seems to be the thinking.

[Home Jersey]

22 minutes ago, TTT said:

Oregon is close to a two touchdown favorite vs IU in a couple weeks.  Solid win to blowout win for Oregon seems to be the thinking.

Could be the case.

I feel pretty good about PSU though.

Glad we have a bye week here

[TTT]

1 hour ago, Home Jersey said:

Could be the case.

I feel pretty good about PSU though.

Glad we have a bye week here

9/11/2004 IU 30 vs at 23rd ranked Oregon 24 (same score as Oregon beating Penn State this year).  (IU was up in first half in the 20s to nothing but Oregon came back but IU held on unlike a game vs NC State and Rivers at IU who completed comeback.  (Oregon 4 first half turnovers and 7 for the game).
Coach Dinardo in Oregon game and Coach Cameron in NC State game.

[Pagoda]

14 hours ago, TTT said:

Oregon is close to a two touchdown favorite vs IU in a couple weeks.  Solid win to blowout win for Oregon seems to be the thinking.

Yea.  I saw IU open up at +10.5.  I thought it may be a little more, but we'll see how the line evolves over the next two weeks.

Last year our losses were one the road at #1 and #2 and we didn't play well.  Almost no teams do well on the road against the top few teams, but we unfairly get extra sh1t for it.  Now we're on the road at #2 again and have a big chance to prove we can hang with them.

Honestly, it doesn't get any harder than this.  Oregon has the great coaching and culture we have, along with elite talent/size/speed (their roster cost about 2x our roster -- as in they spend $15-20M more than we do).  That's not an excuse, it's just the reality, Oregon has built a great program.

But, I can only hope we've learned from our past struggles and can find a way to better compete in this sort of game.  It's a very tall order, but if we want to make the playoff and be competitive when we get there, we've got to hang with the best and find a way to give ourselves a punchers chance in the second half.  I'd say most of our issues in these sort of games have been on the offensive side (OL, getting WRs open/scheme).  A lot of us being competitive will fall on Fernando -- he needs to have a great game.

To be clear, I'm not being critical of IUFB.  IUFB is the best and most exciting thing in IU sports in 25 years.  These are just random thoughts about the huge challenge we've got coming up.  At the end of the day it's awesome we're in a top-10 match-up again.

[Stuhoo]

Gonna need DeAngelo Ponds back in that lineup. Pretty safe to assume that since he dressed for Iowa he will be good to go.

[rayl456]

7 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Yea.  I saw IU open up at +10.5.  I thought it may be a little more, but we'll see how the line evolves over the next two weeks.

Last year our losses were one the road at #1 and #2 and we didn't play well.  Almost no teams do well on the road against the top few teams, but we unfairly get extra sh1t for it.  Now we're on the road at #2 again and have a big chance to prove we can hang with them.

Honestly, it doesn't get any harder than this.  Oregon has the great coaching and culture we have, along with elite talent/size/speed (their roster cost about 2x our roster -- as in they spend $15-20M more than we do).  That's not an excuse, it's just the reality, Oregon has built a great program.

But, I can only hope we've learned from our past struggles and can find a way to better compete in this sort of game.  It's a very tall order, but if we want to make the playoff and be competitive when we get there, we've got to hang with the best and find a way to give ourselves a punchers chance in the second half.  I'd say most of our issues in these sort of games have been on the offensive side (OL, getting WRs open/scheme).  A lot of us being competitive will fall on Fernando -- he needs to have a great game.

To be clear, I'm not being critical of IUFB.  IUFB is the best and most exciting thing in IU sports in 25 years.  These are just random thoughts about the huge challenge we've got coming up.  At the end of the day it's awesome we're in a top-10 match-up again.

Having Phil Knight to assist/build/finance your program is helpful.  lol

[Pagoda]

18 hours ago, LIHoosier said:

Up to 8th in the AP Poll, over (gasp) Texas 

I post this stuff a lot, but I think it's underappreciated.  So we're 8th in the AP, and looking at the top 13 teams, I'm quite sure they all have 50-100% more player payroll (rev share and NIL) that we do.  And in the top-20, only ISU,  Vandy, Ga Tech, and Mizzou are in our realm of resources, everyone else is much more.

The season is young and who knows how it ends, I know we may fall from the top-10 (or not!), but the way Cig has got us in the mix with the big boys continues to amaze me.

[Jeff Flabjohns]

We don’t play Maryland for a month, but there’s a fair chance they’ll be ranked for that game. 
They haven’t played anybody but they’re getting poll votes now and have three winnable games before then. 
Would be nice to have another ranked opponent on the schedule 

[Pagoda]

10 minutes ago, rayl456 said:

Having Phil Knight to assist/build/finance your program is helpful.  lol

Yea, absolutely 1,000%.  I just don't want to make excuses.

It's kinda interesting, for money most big programs have huge fanbases to tap into, but Oregon is the original mega-sugar daddy program.  I guess it could be argued the originals were T Boone or some car dealers in the SEC or the Sam Gilberts of the world, but whatever, they were not funding the levels of NIL Phil does.  Now we see TTU following the Oregon model. 

A risk Oregon has is when Phil passes, if he doesn't setup something in his will or his family is less interested in Oregon (pretty likely given how much Phil loves Oregon), their money could fall off pretty hard.  Funding a football program is a lot even for very rich people, it's money out the door with no return except whatever the team does.  But, Phil could easily be around another 10 or 20 years, so I doubt Oregon is worried about that now.

[Pagoda]

I think our QB is having a decent time in Bloomington lol.

[Stuhoo]

Just now, Pagoda said:

I think our QB is having a decent time in Bloomington lol.

[jermhoosierfan]

2 hours ago, Pagoda said:

Yea, absolutely 1,000%.  I just don't want to make excuses.

It's kinda interesting, for money most big programs have huge fanbases to tap into, but Oregon is the original mega-sugar daddy program.  I guess it could be argued the originals were T Boone or some car dealers in the SEC or the Sam Gilberts of the world, but whatever, they were not funding the levels of NIL Phil does.  Now we see TTU following the Oregon model. 

A risk Oregon has is when Phil passes, if he doesn't setup something in his will or his family is less interested in Oregon (pretty likely given how much Phil loves Oregon), their money could fall off pretty hard.  Funding a football program is a lot even for very rich people, it's money out the door with no return except whatever the team does.  But, Phil could easily be around another 10 or 20 years, so I doubt Oregon is worried about that now.

They might go down the way that Oklahoma St. has with T Boone is gone, and Gundy seemed to not have a good time of it in the last few years.  Phil Knight is 87, and there is no way of knowing how long he will be around.

[Pagoda]

Oregon game will be 3:30PM ET on CBS.

Another big time network TV slot!

Cue the intro music in your mind.

[Hovadipo]

It appears that Makai Jackson has left the program.