College Football Thread

[Class of '66 Old Fart]

43 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

If it's IU Football-style news, our new conference opponents will be mandatory nine annual games consisting of mandatory triple plays against Penn State, Michigan, and OSU. 

To make it 'fair' our opponents will wear helmets and we will be banned from helmet usage.

You forgot the fact we'll have back-to-back road games on Fridays and Saturdays.

[LIHoosier]

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

You forgot the fact we'll have back-to-back road games on Fridays and Saturdays.

Lets make it fun. At USC Friday night followed by a Noon kick at Michigan.

And BTN isn't even hiding that Gene Smith is the real B1G commish with this announcement.

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

Big Ten is getting rid of divisions in 2024, opting for a rotation model for the schedule. 

If I can describe this in one word for IU, it's "merciful". 

[Hovadipo]

Loving this. Get to see different teams more often, see the buzzsaws less often.

[LIHoosier]

The B1G probably spent more time naming the scheduling model 'Flex Protect Plus' than anything else. This is the way it should've been once the B1G ballooned to 14 schools save for going back to 8 conference games. Keep one rivalry protected and rotate the other 14 schools every other year for the other 7 games.

[Hovadipo]

4 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Loving this. Get to see different teams more often, see the buzzsaws less often.

Adding our non-cons, the schedule sets up pretty nicely the next 2 seasons to get back into the bowl conversation:

2024:

vs. FIU

@ Louisville

vs. Charlotte

2025:

vs. Old Dominion

vs. Louisville

vs. Indiana State

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

Best part? 

Road trip to Los Angeles!!! 

[Stuhoo]

24 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Loving this. Get to see different teams more often, see the buzzsaws less often.

After this year our conference schedule will be significantly easier:

• Instead of games every year against OSU, UM, and PSU, we have a total of three games in two years against them.
• The teams that we play both of the years? Purdue, Michigan State, Maryland.

So, so much easier to navigate. Now only if we can get IUFB to suck way less.

[go iu bb]

3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

After this year our conference schedule will be significantly easier:

• Instead of games every year against OSU, UM, and PSU, we have a total of three games in two years against them.
• The teams that we play both of the years? Purdue, Michigan State, Maryland.

So, so much easier to navigate. Now only if we can get IUFB to suck way less.

So now we can't sell recruits on getting to play the best the B1G has to offer every year? :)

JK, this is so much better. 

When I saw there would be 1-3 protected games per team, I wouldn't have been surprised to see IU's protected games as Purdue, OSU, and Michigan or Penn State to make sure those teams (the latter 2/3 teams, not PU) get their gimme games protected.

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

3 minutes ago, Stuhoo said:

After this year our conference schedule will be significantly easier:

• Instead of games every year against OSU, UM, and PSU, we have a total of three games in two years against them.
• The teams that we play both of the years? Purdue, Michigan State, Maryland.

So, so much easier to navigate. Now only if we can get IUFB to suck way less.

That's going to be the challenge. 

 

Getting the team to not be it's own worst enemy when we play teams on our own skill level while we aren't playing the three headed beast each year will determine if we go bowling. 

-Captain Obvious 

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

23 hours ago, Class of '66 Old Fart said:

You forgot the fact we'll have back-to-back road games on Fridays and Saturdays.

Allegedly, there was 141 versions to the schedule before they got to the final one. 

 

I imagine these were in 140 of them. 

[LIHoosier]

lol 

 

[VPC]

Too bad this new format does not start this year.

[TTT]

Hahaha…schedule relief could equal same success in win loss column but instead of getting beat by two touchdowns and a field goal plus a safety…maybe losses average just one touchdown and a field goal.

Over and Under…does IU football have a really good quarterback within the next decade (10 years)???

[Hovadipo]

24 minutes ago, TTT said:

Hahaha…schedule relief could equal same success in win loss column but instead of getting beat by two touchdowns and a field goal plus a safety…maybe losses average just one touchdown and a field goal.

Over and Under…does IU football have a really good quarterback within the next decade (10 years)???

Do you understand what an O/U is

[Stuhoo]

22 minutes ago, Hovadipo said:

Do you understand what an O/U is

Ima gonna give you an ‘over/under answer’ to that question:

”No.”

[IUFootballHappyHappyJoyJoy]

On 6/15/2023 at 5:05 PM, Stuhoo said:

Ima gonna give you an ‘over/under answer’ to that question:

”No.”

So, it's like this; they give you a set amount of points the teams will score combined, and you bet if they will score more "Over", or less "Under".

If it's Iowa, always take the Under.

[Hovadipo]

Alternate headline:

”College football coach suspended 2 weeks during the period in which every college football staffer in America is on vacation.”

[LamarCheeks]

Pretty surprised to see about Pat Fitzgerald. I thought he was the All-American boy running the All-American program! 

[Hovadipo]

2 hours ago, LamarCheeks said:

Pretty surprised to see about Pat Fitzgerald. I thought he was the All-American boy running the All-American program! 

You could make the case that subjecting his players to their offense for the past few years is hazing on its own.