Football

After 2 homecomings, IU awaits its own festivities

By Nathan Hart · Friday, Oct. 16,2009 12:27 a.m.

After participating in homecoming football games for opponents Michigan and Virginia, this week IU will feel at home during the festivities.

IU running backs in search of redemption

By Greg Rosenstein · Friday, Oct. 16,2009 12:25 a.m.

After two weeks of lackluster offense, the IU running backs have a chance to redeem themselves during Saturday's homecoming game against Illinois, who has the worst rushing defense in the Big Ten.

In search of a table-turning win

By Ryan Winn · Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 11:58 p.m.

The last time the Hoosiers faced off with the Fighting Illini in a homecoming battle under the lights in Champaign, IU took a 55-13 uppercut to the chin. This season, the parades will be marching through Bloomington and IU’s Memorial Stadium will be illuminated.

Backup QBs operate sideline signals

By Nathan Hart · Thursday, Oct. 15,2009 12:01 a.m.

The U.S. government classifies its restricted information in three levels: confidential, secret and top secret. If the IU football team had a classification system, its sideline signals would fall in the “top secret” category.

Question posed to Lynch on freshman class: To play or not to play?

By Ryan Winn · Wednesday, Oct. 14,2009 11:10 p.m.

One burning question raging since summer camp has been if promising freshmen – Lynch’s best recruiting class since taking over – can be the caulk to fill any cracks in the team’s foundation.

Big Ten announces football bowl lineup for next 4 seasons

Wednesday, Oct. 14,2009 3:57 p.m.

The Big Ten recently announced its bowl lineup for 2010-2013 on the heels of a season with more parody than ever within conference.

Big Ten announces bowl lineup

By IDS staff · Wednesday, Oct. 14,2009 2:04 p.m.

The Big Ten recently announced its bowl lineup in a season with more parody than ever within conference.

QB Ben Chappell laments Virginia game: 'That wasn't us'

By Greg Rosenstein · Sunday, Oct. 11,2009 11:40 p.m.

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.”

Missed tackles, out-of-position players plague Hoosier defense

By Nathan Hart · Sunday, Oct. 11,2009 11:37 p.m.

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.

Hoosiers flatline in crucial contest

By Ryan Winn · Sunday, Oct. 11,2009 11:34 p.m.

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.

Virginia dominates IU, wins 47-7

By Nathan Hart · Saturday, Oct. 10,2009 2:49 p.m.

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.

While venue changes, brothers' bond doesn't

By Greg Rosenstein · Thursday, Oct. 8,2009 10:20 p.m.

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.

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.

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