College Football Thread

[Gahoosierfan]

I am really tired of Finebaum trashing non-SEC team schedules. I looked at the top six SEC team schedules, and they aren't impressive when playing non-SEC teams. A&M lost to Notre Dame. UGA beat Clemson, but so what? Clemson is really down this year as is the whole ACC. Alabama beat Wisconsin which lost their QB in the first quarter.  The top SEC teams are beating each other and that looks impressive to the pollsters, but they aren't getting any signature wins outside of the conference. 

[go iu bb]

1 hour ago, Gahoosierfan said:

I am really tired of Finebaum trashing non-SEC team schedules. I looked at the top six SEC team schedules, and they aren't impressive when playing non-SEC teams. A&M lost to Notre Dame. UGA beat Clemson, but so what? Clemson is really down this year as is the whole ACC. Alabama beat Wisconsin which lost their QB in the first quarter.  The top SEC teams are beating each other and that looks impressive to the pollsters, but they aren't getting any signature wins outside of the conference. 

They also only play 8 conference games instead of 9 for the B1G and B12. That helps prevent them from beating up on each other as much.

[KingPG21]

Its weird to me that when people have talked about IU and our SOS that people bring up the past. Russilo was talking about Texas being in the CFP last year and that should count to something. We beat the two teams from last year's national championship game, yet that counts for nothing. I don't think it should. But you can't bring up Texas being in last year then not bring up Michigan and Washington being in it

 

Also can talking heads stop throwing Clemson in talks? That program hasn't been relevant since Lawerence, and its great 

[Demo]

https://x.com/DanWetzel/status/1858905651495272792
 

Are.You. Freaking. Kidding. Me.

[Hovadipo]

Russillo getting involved is when you know we're in media circus mode. That dude doesn't like (or know A. THING. about) anything other than the NBA or NFL.

Unfortunately we'll have another week of this because IU's place in the discussion will be in limbo until Saturday and the rankings next Tuesday.

[Stuhoo]

9 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/DanWetzel/status/1858905651495272792
 

Are.You. Freaking. Kidding. Me.

A former football coach who ran a fraudulent hedge fund and a largely fake charity when he was a coach, is offended by a team with an average at best NIL budget?

Not at all surprising.

[go iu bb]

13 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/DanWetzel/status/1858905651495272792
 

Are.You. Freaking. Kidding. Me.

So before the season began, everyone looked at IU and said they brought in a bunch of lower end talent so wouldn't be good this year. Now that they're winning, they "bought" a team.

Between the returning players from a 3-9 team last year plus all the Group of 5 transfers coming in, IU was selected at or near the bottom of the B1G entering the season. I remember and I'm sure the coaches and players remember too. 

Of course, IU wasn't on Tuberville's radar before the season so he just sees a 10-0 team ranked ahead of many teams from his beloved SEC and that they brought in a bunch of transfers. This while ignoring that IU was out spent in NIL by the teams he thinks should be above them. Those are some sour grapes he's eating.

[rayl456]

21 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/DanWetzel/status/1858905651495272792
 

Are.You. Freaking. Kidding. Me.

It’s f-ing Tommy Tuberville…so what did you expect.  He’s a worthless political tool.

[OliviaPope40]

32 minutes ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/DanWetzel/status/1858905651495272792
 

Are.You. Freaking. Kidding. Me.

Do not get me started on this guy.

[Hoosierfan2017]

Lmao at IU being used as the example of a football team that was “bought.” Like half of our 31 transfers came from JMU, and only 6 of them came from P5 schools. We bought so much talent in the portal that we were picked to finish 17th in the conference. 

[Hoosierfan2017]

The media won’t stfu about IU’s “weak” schedule but remains completely silent about Texas’s schedule. Texas’s best win is what, a 3 point road win against Vanderbilt? Texas got crushed at home by Georgia. Swap the uniforms and they’d be talking about how Texas has crushed everyone it’s played. 

Throw notre dame in too. Notre dame’s loss at home to a MAC team doesn’t keep them out of the playoff, but we should be kept out if we lose on the road to OSU. 

[LamarCheeks]

9 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

The media won’t stfu about IU’s “weak” schedule but remains completely silent about Texas’s schedule. Texas’s best win is what, a 3 point road win against Vanderbilt? Texas got crushed at home by Georgia. Swap the uniforms and they’d be talking about how Texas has crushed everyone it’s played. 

Throw notre dame in too. Notre dame’s loss at home to a MAC team doesn’t keep them out of the playoff, but we should be kept out if we lose on the road to OSU. 

Penn State as well. Pretty much the only difference between their schedule and ours is that they've already played O$U -- which we do this weekend. Hell, they struggled to beat Bowling Green and needed OT to beat Southern Cal, which is now 5-5. 

[hoopsta007]

14 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

The media won’t stfu about IU’s “weak” schedule but remains completely silent about Texas’s schedule. Texas’s best win is what, a 3 point road win against Vanderbilt? Texas got crushed at home by Georgia. Swap the uniforms and they’d be talking about how Texas has crushed everyone it’s played. 

Throw notre dame in too. Notre dame’s loss at home to a MAC team doesn’t keep them out of the playoff, but we should be kept out if we lose on the road to OSU. 

They love moving the goalposts and trying to set a narrative against IU.  It’s always been “next week” with us dating back to the UCLA game.  Now they are almost out of next weeks with only OSU and the worst team in college football between us and the playoffs.  They are now trying to make this an elimination game for us when any bigger football school would get a pass for losing on the road to OSU.  Funny thing is if we win OSU will still be “safely in” with a good loss while an IU loss will mean we got exposed.

[monskisprodigy]

I've stopped listening to the national media...how quickly we went from darling to scapegoat. 

I think Cig and this team have the mindset of...just win and you shut everyone up. We were picked to finish bottom half of the big ten, now we bought players, easy schedule, blah blah blah...

JUST WIN BABY! 1-0 THIS WEEK IS ALL WE NEED!

[LIHoosier]

I am really tired of Finebaum trashing non-SEC team schedules. I looked at the top six SEC team schedules, and they aren't impressive when playing non-SEC teams. A&M lost to Notre Dame. UGA beat Clemson, but so what? Clemson is really down this year as is the whole ACC. Alabama beat Wisconsin which lost their QB in the first quarter.  The top SEC teams are beating each other and that looks impressive to the pollsters, but they aren't getting any signature wins outside of the conference. 

The podiatrist is being a good lap dog. I watched an impromptu CrimsonCast last night and a great point made was that our fearless new C1G commish needs to make some calls and get some talking heads outside their own network to hit the ground pumping up mainly us and PSU, the O's will be fine.
A question while we're on media lap dogs; is there a way to excommunicate IU alumni (looking at you Heather Daunted)?

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[go iu bb]

It's interesting but unsurprising that people aren't talking about Texas' weak schedule. This Arkansas writer does, though, pointing out what a bunch of hypocrites their own conference is.

https://www.si.com/college/arkansas/football/razorbacks-texas-longhorns-indiana-georgia-vanderbilt-sec-big-ten-playoffs

[Artie86]

1 hour ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/DanWetzel/status/1858905651495272792
 

Are.You. Freaking. Kidding. Me.

.....uh......yeah, buying a team? Coach Cignetti and Co. went out and "bought" JMU players and various other players who were not so highly toughted players that honestly not too many other schools even wanted them. It's not like Coach Cignetti went out, flipped 4 and 5 star players from big time schools and paid them accordingly! 

The fact is, people don't like and probably can't understand how he could have done this in one season. The only answer is two things.......

1. Incredible coaching!

2. Buy in!

[HoosierFan1994]

1 hour ago, Demo said:

https://x.com/DanWetzel/status/1858905651495272792
 

Are.You. Freaking. Kidding. Me.

What is hilarious is if anyone bought a football team, it's the one team IU is playing this weekend (Chip Kelly, Will Howard, Judkins, Downs, etc). 

[Hoosierfan2017]

They really should let the computers pick the 12 playoff teams. They don’t even try to come up with arguments anymore. Ole Miss lost to Kentucky and LSU  Alabama lost to Vandy. Tennessee lost to Arkansas and needed OT to beat Florida. You could have a 3 or 4 loss SEC team and they’d still argue for putting them into the playoff. How about the SEC play 9 conference games like the other conferences first. 

https://twitter.com/fandueltv/status/1858887601479929899?s=46&t=LoczziaTWuqlhvyvHGT92A

[Loaded Chicken Sandwich]

4 minutes ago, Hoosierfan2017 said:

They really should let the computers pick the 12 playoff teams. They don’t even try to come up with arguments anymore. Ole Miss lost to Kentucky and LSU  Alabama lost to Vandy. Tennessee lost to Arkansas and needed OT to beat Florida. You could have a 3 or 4 loss SEC team and they’d still argue for putting them into the playoff. How about the SEC play 9 conference games like the other conferences first. 

https://twitter.com/fandueltv/status/1858887601479929899?s=46&t=LoczziaTWuqlhvyvHGT92A

I love the argument of "Indiana plays bad teams" or "Every Top 25 team would be undefeated if they played that schedule."

 

Yea well the majority of Top 25 teams have proven they can't beat all the mediocre teams they play.