Football

IU enters critical contest

By Ryan Winn · Thursday, Oct. 8,2009 10:18 p.m.

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.

Hoosiers face unfamiliar foe

By Nathan Hart · Thursday, Oct. 8,2009 6:58 p.m.

Unfamiliar and unpredictable – for the IU football team, that might be the best way to describe the Virginia team it will face Saturday.

As leaves change, so do BCS bowl perceptions

By Frank Therber · Monday, Oct. 5,2009 11:18 p.m.

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.

In front of more than 50,000 fans, Hoosiers stumble against the Buckeyes

By Greg Rosenstein · Sunday, Oct. 4,2009 11:48 p.m.

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.

OSU defense squelches Hoosier run game

By Nathan Hart · Sunday, Oct. 4,2009 10:09 p.m.

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.

IU fans ashamed after 33-14 loss

By Ryan Winn · Sunday, Oct. 4,2009 10:05 p.m.

The conversations in the bleachers, concourses and parking lots Saturday night all ended the same way: “That was so embarrassing.”

Ohio State dominates IU, 33-14

By Greg Rosenstein · Saturday, Oct. 3,2009 11:45 p.m.

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 prepared for OSU’s Pryor

By Greg Rosenstein · Friday, Oct. 2,2009 12:42 a.m.

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.

Absence makes the Hoosier heart grow stronger

By Ryan Winn · Friday, Oct. 2,2009 12:16 a.m.

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.

Could IU give Ohio State its 'Darkest Day'?

By Nathan Hart · Friday, Oct. 2,2009 12:14 a.m.

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.

IU-Michigan game among Big Ten football's most-watched

By IDS staff · Thursday, Oct. 1,2009 7:05 p.m.

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.

Student seating sold out for Ohio State game

Thursday, Oct. 1,2009 2:37 p.m.

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.

Anthony Thompson widely regarded as greatest IU football player

By Greg Rosenstein · Wednesday, Sept. 30,2009 11:24 a.m.

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.

New season, new story for IU

By Ryan Winn · Wednesday, Sept. 30,2009 11:20 a.m.

The IU football team is entering the heart of the Big Ten season not knowing exactly what kind of team they have.

5 key conference games to watch

By Nathan Hart · Wednesday, Sept. 30,2009 11:18 a.m.

Here are five conference you have to tune into if you're a Big Ten fan.

Less than 1,000 student tickets left for Saturday's football game

By Sean Morrison · Tuesday, Sept. 29,2009 12:41 a.m.

If students plan to attend the Oct. 3 game against Ohio State and participate in the dedication of the North End Zone, they have to act fast.

1,000 student tickets remain for next football game

By Sean Morrison · Monday, Sept. 28,2009 6:43 p.m.

Less than 1,000 student tickets remain and just over 5,000 reserved seats are available for Saturday's contest, slated to kick off at 7 p.m.

Good call or bad call? Discuss it here

Monday, Sept. 28,2009 10:22 a.m.

A late controversial interception halted an IU drive late in Saturday's game, allowing No. 23 Michigan to eek out a 36-33 victory. IDS football writer Nathan Hart examines the simultaneous catch rule in a Hoosier Hype post. What do you think? Sound off on the Hoosier Hype blog.

Hoosiers' tough game ends with same sunken feeling

By Ryan Winn · Sunday, Sept. 27,2009 11:08 p.m.

In the midst of an exciting Week 4 contest, there was simply a feeling IU would let a victory against the Wolverines slip away.

Fans taken aback by Michigan takeaway in final minutes of close contest

By Nathan Hart · Sunday, Sept. 27,2009 11:03 p.m.

In the first play of IU’s final drive as the team trailed 36-33, Michigan cornerback Donovan Warren wrestled the ball out of IU wideout Damarlo Belcher’s hands as the two players fell to the ground.

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