IUFB at Penn State - Saturday, 11.08.25 @ Noon on Fox-TV

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

Let's get the march to 10-0 started.   Current weather forecast calls for am showers, afternoon high of 55, wind west at 10-15 mph.

[Brass Cannon]

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

Let's get the march to 10-0 started.   Current weather forecast calls for am showers, afternoon high of 55, wind west at 10-15 mph.

Why is the show going one place and the crew another?

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

The early line.  Hoosiers are 13.5-point favorites at Beaver Stadium vs. Penn State, o/u 47.5.

[RoadRage]

Drew Evans will be out a few weeks according to Coach Cignetti.....

[jermhoosierfan]

On 11/2/2025 at 7:50 AM, Brass Cannon said:

Why is the show going one place and the crew another?

https://www.si.com/college/iowa/football/big-noon-kickoff-heads-iowa-hawkeyes-despite-cbs-broadcast

It is unusual for them to be separate, but there is really no reason given outside of they both are pretty big games.  FOX gets their choice of which to broadcast, and they might have had a hard time to figure out which one to do at noon.  I am just spit balling ideas.

[Hovadipo]

2 minutes ago, jermhoosierfan said:

https://www.si.com/college/iowa/football/big-noon-kickoff-heads-iowa-hawkeyes-despite-cbs-broadcast

It is unusual for them to be separate, but there is really no reason given outside of they both are pretty big games.  FOX gets their choice of which to broadcast, and they might have had a hard time to figure out which one to do at noon.  I am just spit balling ideas.

Indiana/Penn State will give FOX a bigger viewing number, but there are better storylines at Oregon/Iowa since they just had us a couple weeks ago. 

Or maybe the BNK semi driver refused the horrific drive up to State College. 

[Brass Cannon]

1 minute ago, Hovadipo said:

Indiana/Penn State will give FOX a bigger viewing number, but there are better storylines at Oregon/Iowa since they just had us a couple weeks ago. 

Or maybe the BNK semi driver refused the horrific drive up to State College. 

That’s fair not fair to subject an innocent person to that 

[rcbowla]

I have concerns for this game. We've never won at Beaver. This is PSU's last chance to salvage something from this season and build toward the future. PSU still has more talent (according to stars) and if they put it together for 1 game can really be a problem. The staff and players for PSU are going to throw everything they got at IU. The one thing that makes me think it may be alright is that this game is at noon and some of their homefield advantage could be despondent at this point. Hope I'm wrong about everything and we beat the **** out of them but I wouldn't be surprised to be in a dog fight and even potentially lose this one.

[Hovadipo]

5 minutes ago, rcbowla said:

I have concerns for this game. We've never won at Beaver. This is PSU's last chance to salvage something from this season and build toward the future. PSU still has more talent (according to stars) and if they put it together for 1 game can really be a problem. The staff and players for PSU are going to throw everything they got at IU. The one thing that makes me think it may be alright is that this game is at noon and some of their homefield advantage could be despondent at this point. Hope I'm wrong about everything and we beat the **** out of them but I wouldn't be surprised to be in a dog fight and even potentially lose this one.

I get the same uneasy feeling as you, just from the historical aspect of it and looking at the seasons in general.

But then when you start thinking about the game being played on the field...their offense is only somewhat dangerous when they can run the ball, which we're elite at stopping. They can't throw AT. ALL. If they're stuck playing in 3rd and medium/long all day they'll be in hell. They also don't stop the run worth a crap either, which...we do pretty well.

A sleepy Beaver Stadium against a team that we match up pretty well with? I feel pretty good. 

[Home Jersey]

Penn State will pay for the sins of ESPN and SEC-loving pundits. They will be eaten alive IMO. 

[jmsgws]

1 hour ago, rcbowla said:

I have concerns for this game. We've never won at Beaver.

This is the feeling I have every week.  As a long time suffering fan.  It is hard to get rid of 5 decades of futility sprinkled with small doses of success.  I have to keep reminding myself, this IS NOT the IU football of old.  

 

[Gahoosierfan]

Has IU released any updates on injuries from the Maryland game? Especially Sarratt.

[Pagoda]

3 minutes ago, Gahoosierfan said:

Has IU released any updates on injuries from the Maryland game? Especially Sarratt.

Some updates from the presser that just ended:

[Stuhoo]

22 minutes ago, Pagoda said:

Some updates from the presser that just ended:

In other words, Fisher would’ve played last week if Maryland didn’t suck so bad.

[Pagoda]

On 11/2/2025 at 9:17 AM, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

The early line.  Hoosiers are 13.5-point favorites at Beaver Stadium vs. Penn State, o/u 47.5.

The line has since moved to 15.5 to 16.  Yeesh.

Once again the $ is coming in on us and once again I’ll say I hope it’s all smart money!

[Stuhoo]

For all of the understandable teeth gnashing about injuries, to date we've had exactly one injury that will matter in the long term; Wyatt.

The other injuries have all been short term or minimal in impact:

• Evans - short term and Michalski ended up doing well last week.
• Sarratt - looks to be very short term.
• Franke - excellent at what he does but very low impact role and Warren also kicks deep very well.
• Fisher - a big deal but the timing was good (post Oregon/Iowa/Illinois), and appears now to be relatively short term.
• Turner - de minimus.
• Beebee - Excellent player but maybe our single deepest position.

For a competitive football team this is pretty excellent. To our credit, we have mitigated injuries by reducing game snaps for the starters in five of our nine games that were complete blowouts. Our subs have played the equivalent of about a game and a half by now.

[Brass Cannon]

21 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

For all of the understandable teeth gnashing about injuries, to date we've had exactly one injury that will matter in the long term; Wyatt.

The other injuries have all been short term or minimal in impact:

• Evans - short term and Michalski ended up doing well last week.
• Sarratt - looks to be very short term.
• Franke - excellent at what he does but very low impact role and Warren also kicks deep very well.
• Fisher - a big deal but the timing was good (post Oregon/Iowa/Illinois), and appears now to be relatively short term.
• Turner - de minimus.
• Beebee - Excellent player but maybe our single deepest position.

For a competitive football team this is pretty excellent. To our credit, we have mitigated injuries by reducing game snaps for the starters in five of our nine games that were complete blowouts. Our subs have played the equivalent of about a game and a half by now.

Great perspective here.

 

 I’m kinda curious if Sarratt would have played if we needed him in the second half. 

[Hovadipo]

[FortWayneHoosier]

Cig media availability on Penn State, and brief recap of Maryland, from Insidethehall.com

 

 

 

[Brass Cannon]

Something that is genuinely impressing me is these guys at PSU who only came back to try and win a NC haven’t started sitting themselves.  Unless NFL gms have started factoring that into their drafting.