It will be tougher, but this Hoosier team is special. Honestly, I got IU by double digits again. It will be closer than Alabama, but Indiana is better offensively and defensively than Oregon. As always, turnovers are key, but I see this as a 35-17 Indiana win. Take away the pick 6 and the Ducks scored 13 points against IU the first time on their home field.
Notre Dame is also better this year than they were last year.
This conversation between Notre Dame and IU is just nonsense. Notre Dame was better last year, IU is probably better this year. At the end of the day, IU will be the one bringing home the hardware, so kudos to them. I just wish ND was given an opportunity to showcase themselves this year.
Hard to say that when IU is 25-2 with Cig and hasn’t lost a home game yet. IU is better this year than last year, but they were still pretty good last year
I’m a Maconaquah grad with a rooting interest in East as that is my mom and all of my aunts/uncles (besides one who attended “Columbus High School) alma mater. My uncle and cousins were all East football players and I’ve gotten to attend many big postseason games during the Gaddis era.
Coach Campbell (and before him Coach Colby) took Maconaquah from a place where .500 was tolerable and above .500 was viewed as a great success to a point where they were competing for conference and Sectional titles yearly for the past few years. He’s quite an offensive innovator and if he can put up numbers like he did at a rural 3A with a handful of athletes, he can do much more than that at East. Sneaky good hire, IMO, by the O’s.