2025 IUFB Season

[BtownStrength]

10 minutes ago, BBTB said:

Does anyone know  how they might chose who goes to the Orange ,Sugar ,Rose ,or Cotton  ? I think its my BIG TEN thinking of I want to go to the Rose Bowl  .

The CFP Management Comittee assigns bowl games based on geography while avoiding giving 1 team a de facto home game. As far as I understand, conference tie ins dont matter if the game is part of the playoff. 

[BBTB]

1 minute ago, BtownStrength said:

The CFP Management Comittee assigns bowl games based on geography while avoiding giving 1 team a de facto home game. As far as I understand, conference tie ins dont matter if the game is part of the playoff. 

Okay  thank you 

[Hovadipo]

9 minutes ago, BBTB said:

I never watch Disney  1 show on ABC  usually sports are on other networks .

Go check out what Disney owns. 

Hint: it’s everything. 

[Brass Cannon]

3 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Go check out what Disney owns. 

Hint: it’s everything. 

Yep I’m just glad they are consolidating Disney plus and Hulu 

[cthomas]

1 hour ago, Hovadipo said:

Go check out what Disney owns. 

Hint: it’s everything. 

There have to be some anti-trust things going on with how mega corporations swallow up smaller companies. But corporate and money interests (stockholders) always get away with whatever they want.  It's the way of the world now.

[DChoosier]

3 hours ago, BtownStrength said:

The CFP Management Comittee assigns bowl games based on geography while avoiding giving 1 team a de facto home game. As far as I understand, conference tie ins dont matter if the game is part of the playoff. 

I could be wrong but from I’ve read it sounds as if the top ranked BT team, as long as they are a top 4 “bye team”, will be assigned to the Rose Bowl.

[Dave from Dayton]

Indiana football is only 7th in the nation according to the below linked ranking.  

Wisconsin (not shocked here) sold over $3.1 million.  

Several other Big 10 schools appeared on the list, including Minnesota in fifth ($1,038,758.67), Michigan in sixth ($985,266.05), Indiana in seventh ($983,394), Illinois in tenth ($743,690.59) and Michigan State in 11th ($234,016.73).

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/college-football/article-15258479/wisconsin-football-big-10-alchohol-sales.html

[Dave from Dayton]

2 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Adjusted for stadium size, we're around #3 per person!

I graduated both from UW-M and IU-B.  Personally, it was quite a difference in...attitudes...about consuming mass quantities of liquid (brandy, beer...) refreshments up there.

I have corrected my post to show that it was not only B1G schools.  And only 21 schools responded.    There is that, too.

[Lebowski]

17 hours ago, Hovadipo said:

Stadium beer sales data courtesy of Matt Brown who runs the Extra Points newsletter. Averaging over a beer and a half sold per seat is punching in an elite beer-drinking weight class. We're leaving revenue on the table imo. When they jack my season ticket prices up and force me to make another non-deductible donation (typing that made me vomit. Call it a PSL or even just call it a fee; don't piss on my shoes and tell me it's raining), I'll simply ask why they can't charge Big House beer prices to carry some of the load. 

This list just tells me that the Midwest is keeping it real baby!! Ball St. even made the list. 
 

 

[Stuhoo]

44 minutes ago, Lebowski said:

This list just tells me that the Midwest is keeping it real baby!! Ball St. even made the list. 
 

 

Twenty years later, Bowling Green is still trying to drink away the memory that Dakich was their basketball coach.

[jermhoosierfan]

10 hours ago, cthomas said:

There have to be some anti-trust things going on with how mega corporations swallow up smaller companies. But corporate and money interests (stockholders) always get away with whatever they want.  It's the way of the world now.

The feds at one time would break up or deny the consolidation, but they don't anymore.  You got 4 companies that have about 80 to 85% of the beef market for example, and you wonder why prices skyrocket sometimes.  Need someone with guts to bust them up, but money talks.

[Pagoda]

To play the role of unpopular poster: Per Nielsen, Disney has 11-12% market share of household media consumption.  Not a monopoly.  But, I know that won't change anyone's mind on Disney!

[Hovadipo]

15 minutes ago, Lebowski said:

This list just tells me that the Midwest is keeping it real baby!! Ball St. even made the list. 
 

 

This is hilarious. Wisconsin fans spent the entire afternoon victory lapping their beer numbers. Those poor folks can't catch a break.

[steubenhoosier]

17 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

This is hilarious. Wisconsin fans spent the entire afternoon victory lapping their beer numbers. Those poor folks can't catch a break.

The only reason that Wisconsin is not at the top of this list is because for a Saturday game they start tailgating Thursday night/Friday morning and have consumed quite a bit of alcohol before ever entering the stadium.

Been there, done that.

[Lebowski]

5 minutes ago, steubenhoosier said:

The only reason that Wisconsin is not at the top of this list is because for a Saturday game they start tailgating Thursday night/Friday morning and have consumed quite a bit of alcohol before ever entering the stadium.

Been there, done that.

Poop man, you can can drink beer in class during lectures. Beer is everywhere in Wisconsin. 

[Dave from Dayton]

Wisconsin rental houses within one block of Camp Randall Stadium had keggers on the porch roofs before each home game.

[steubenhoosier]

27 minutes ago, Dave from Dayton said:

Wisconsin rental houses within one block of Camp Randall Stadium had keggers on the porch roofs before each home game.

In all fairness, when I was a student at IU you could bring whatever you wanted into Memorial Stadium, as long as it was covered.

Many pony legs and gallon milk cartons full of alcoholic concoctions were “smuggled “ in to help us forget about the product on the field.

[Magisterium]

WVU being this high might explain all the burned sofas and couches. Just a theory..

[MemphisHoosier]

On 11/1/2025 at 11:11 AM, MemphisHoosier said:

ESPN had another update for Mickens, https://www.espn.com/college-football/recruiting/story/_/id/46792662/college-football-recruiting-lsu-penn-state-ohio-state-auburn-flips-visits.  TL:DR The RB is finalizing visits to Indiana, Oklahoma, and South Carolina.  Unless Mickens plans to visit during a bye, I would assume Cig and Coach Miller are targeting hosting for the Wisconsin game in two weeks.

Additionally the article mentions WR Davion Brown as another flip to keep an eye on from PSU.  Indiana, Maryland, and K-State are mentioned as primary contenders here.  Something worth watching, the staff has 2x WR committed for '26 (Rupert and Bryson) and are reportedly leading for former PSU commit Lavar Keys - does the staff take 4x WR in the class?  Personally, I could see it with so much offensive firepower moving on after the season - looking at Williams, Sarratt, Brady, Jackson (who entered the portal), and potentially Omar - and these things just work themself out.

247 is reporting that Mickens will be in town for the Wisconsin game next weekend with a planned visit to Oklahoma on 11/28.

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

On3 reports this morning Mickens won't go to So. Carolina but instead will visit Ole Miss Thanksgiving weekend for its game with LSU.