After pulling a big Power-5/BCS shocker, the most satisfying thing of all is reading the way it gets covered back in Power-5 land. Very satisfying.
This week, I did a podcast with Crimson Cast. They are nice guys, I talked to them last year, too. He asked me what I thought would happen, and I said what I thought, which was that it would be a shoot-out with Indiana being on top by 1 score, 42-35.
The host said, under his breath, "I think a lot of people here will be disappointed if that happens."
Understand, they would be disappointed to only beat us by 1 TD.
Not, the morning after the game, Crimson Cast has not been updated. What sits on their page right now (9:45 AM), are the following predictions. (To be fair, Galen, who I spoke with, had IU winning by 3.)
Galen’s video pick gets historical to caution you about an Indiana team going on the road, before calling a 34-31 shootout victory for your Hoosiers.
Scott calls a 35-17 Indiana win in Bowling Green.
Mike Petry’s prediction? “Pain. And a 42-14 IU victory.”
Michael Rayome’s pick – I’m calling a 38-13 Indiana victory. Indiana will score a couple of touchdowns early via a renewed passing attack. Tevin Coleman and the running back crew will dominate the second half, prompting the exits to clear in the early fourth quarter.
There were no cleared exists. There was pain, but not the kind Mike Petry thought.
But hey, that was before the game. Here is after....
Here is the Indianapolis Star:
This was as bad as it gets in the Kevin Wilson era at Indiana University.
This was Bowling Green, which lost by 32 to Indiana last year and by 28 to Western Kentucky — Western Kentucky! — in a season opener.
Indiana featured collective collapse: offense, defense, special teams, coaching.
Don't be deceived by Indiana's new 3-4 defense, either. The Falcons weren't. They ran 113 plays, for crying out loud — two off the Football Bowl Subdivision record.
"You let them run 113 snaps," Wilson said, "and you're not going to win a game."
Today, there were a couple of times where me being a better teammate could have made a difference.
It remains difficult to find five more wins that would put the Hoosiers in their first bowl game since 2007.
So, BG ruined their season . I like it.
I read the Indy paper last night ... they weren't happy.
ReplyDeleteBTW ... what did coach say about the onside kick and going for two?
When asked about his thought process on the onside kick, Coach Babers said....
ReplyDelete"We wanted to get the ball back so we could score again."
No questions about the 2-point conversion, except for the general statement that when the players tell him to go, there is no off switch.
When asked about his thought process on the onside kick, Coach Babers said....
ReplyDelete"We wanted to get the ball back so we could score again."
No questions about the 2-point conversion, except for the general statement that when the players tell him to go, there is no off switch.
When asked about his thought process on the onside kick, Coach Babers said....
ReplyDelete"We wanted to get the ball back so we could score again."
No questions about the 2-point conversion, except for the general statement that when the players tell him to go, there is no off switch.
I kept waiting for IU to go for two because of the differential, so when BG went for it, I was surprised.
ReplyDeleteMy big question was why did we kill the clock at the end of the 1st half when Tyler Tate was 4 for 4 and has hit from 43, 47 and 52 yards this year? If the reason we did an onside kick was to get the ball back to score again, why didn't we try to score at the end of the 1st half?
ReplyDeleteWell, that's a question a bunch of us had at the time. The closest Coach came was to say that it was a 15-round fight and you had to keep that in mind. It did seem like we could have gotten 3 more points.
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