Big Ten announces bowl lineup
The Big Ten recently announced its bowl lineup in a season with more parody than ever within conference.
The Big Ten recently announced its bowl lineup in a season with more parody than ever within conference.
After the Hoosiers’ 47-7 loss to Virginia on Saturday, IU junior quarterback Ben Chappell was asked if anything went right for his team against the Cavaliers. He calmly answered with one word: “No.”
The IU defense could hardly do anything right at Saturday's game against Virginia. The Hoosiers lost 47-7 against a team ranked third worst in the country in total offense.
After dropping the last two games to tough opponents, a reasonable person would have expected an IU team ready to pounce and claw the life away from a sub-.500 non-conference team. Instead, the team countered with an uninspired output and left with a hazy view of its future.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The IU Hoosiers took a break from their conference schedule to face Atlantic Coast Conference opponent Virginia Saturday. They probably could have just taken the week off.
From the backyard of their home in Centerville, Ohio, to their stadium in high school and now Memorial Stadium, there has been one constant for Tyler and Adam Replogle. They have played football – together.
Some fans think IU was not supposed to beat Ohio State, and therefore, a hard effort from the historically lowly Hoosiers was acceptable. Thankfully, for the sake of the team’s season, IU coach Bill Lynch isn’t one of those people.
Unfamiliar and unpredictable – for the IU football team, that might be the best way to describe the Virginia team it will face Saturday.
The leaves are changing, and so is the temperature. In other words, we are starting to find out who is for real and who is not in the college football world, and who could or will not contend for the National Championship.
Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor was chosen by the media as the Big Ten’s preseason Offensive Player of the Year, and he lived up to that billing in Saturday’s 33-14 win against the Hoosiers.
The IU offense knew it would be tested Saturday night against an Ohio State team that had not allowed a point in two weeks. The test didn’t go too well.
The conversations in the bleachers, concourses and parking lots Saturday night all ended the same way: “That was so embarrassing.”
When IU coach Bill Lynch said that his team has never faced a player like Ohio State quarterback Terrelle Pryor, he wasn’t kidding.
IU football coach Bill Lynch said the Hoosiers' biggest challenge Saturday will be No. 9 Ohio State’s dual-threat sophomore quarterback Terrelle Pryor, the preseason Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year.
Ignorance is bliss for the Hoosiers. While Thomas Gray certainly didn’t have the IU football team on his mind when he wrote his much-referenced poem in 1742, his words ring true in the Hoosiers’ 2009 Big Ten season.
In 1987, the 3-1 Hoosiers traveled to Columbus, Ohio, to face the Buckeyes. While this year’s game is in Bloomington, the current Hoosiers can only hope the game result is the same.
The Hoosiers’ 36-33 loss to Michigan last week in Ann Arbor was watched in nearly 2.1 million households, the second-most ever among Big Ten football telecast on ESPN 2.
Despite increasing student seating from 8,100 to 11,000, nearly a third of the normal seating, all seats for the student body for IU's Saturday matchup against No. 9 Ohio State have been sold out as of Thursday morning, according to an IU Athletics press release.
Twenty years ago on a cold Nov. 11 afternoon in Madison, Wisc., then-IU football coach Bill Mallory roamed the sidelines of Camp Randall Stadium until he reached senior running back Anthony Thompson.
The IU football team is entering the heart of the Big Ten season not knowing exactly what kind of team they have.