Footballking16

Rourke with a clean pocket has absolutely shredded teams. He has the highest QBR rating of any QB in the country. He’s extremely accurate (70%) and doesn’t turn the ball over. The only QB Notre Dame has seen this year in the same breath as Rourke is Tyler Shough from Louisville and he had a big day against the Irish. ND is going to have to dial up some blitzes to get home.

Ohio State has two of the best receivers in college football. IU sold out to stop Jeremiah Smith from beating them over the top. ND doesn't have anywhere close to the passing attack or outside weapons of Ohio State. Indiana can and will keep an extra defender in the box against ND. That was the point I was trying to make. Notre Dame runs the football extremely well and Love is as good as it gets, but IU's best strength plays into ND's greatest strength. That's why I believe ND is a better matchup for Indiana. exactly

Unfortunately I think close to half of that was spent on our underperforming basketball.

ND is a better matchup for IU than Ohio State. Outside a gamesmanship 50 yard run at the end of the game, IU held Ohio State to less than 3 ypc all while committing help to Jeremiah Smith over the top. ND doesn't have anywhere near the WR talent, let alone depth that Ohio State does outside and should be able to keep an extra defender in the box to assist with the run. IU statistically has the best run defense in the country and will be by far the best ND has seen all season. Contain Leonard and force ND into obvious passing downs and the D should hold up. Offensively, IU just can't get behind multiple scores where they have to get off-balance with the play-calling . Despite the 25 yard loss credited to the punter on the drop snap and the bevy of Rourke sacks, IU ran the ball well against Ohio State with both backs despite the end game rushing stats...over 4 ypc. I think Ohio State has a better run D than ND although ND is very solid across the line. IU dictated the game up until the two ST miscues that saw the Hoosiers go down 2 scores quick. From there, Ohio State pinned their ears back and really brought the house as IU had to try and pass to get back in the game. If IU can operate around 3-4 ypc, should be able to extend drives most the night. A game like this is probably going to come down to a turnover, both teams take care of the ball extremely well and both are in the top 5 in the country in TO margin. Feels like a 27-21 type game, hope its IU. Should be a good one.

I was at the Ohio St/IU game and all the OSU fans around us started buying tickets towards the end of the 3rd quarter. Meteor wasn't an option.

The real reason why Ohio State fans want Day fired 😄

Over my dead body lol. I'll root for Georgia before I root for Notre Dame.

So under that proposal, Clemson #16, wouldn't have made the field as the 5th highest rated champion. First round byes: 1 Oregon 2 Georgia 3 Texas 4 Penn State Opening round games: 5 ND/12 ASU, 6 OSU/11 Alabama, 7 Tennesse/10 SMU, 8 IU/9 Boise

I think it's the right number. Bracket would look a whole lot better going forward if you scrape the 5th highest CC automatic qualifier and eliminated first round byes for the 4 highest rated conference champions. Seed the field based on the final rankings 1-12.

Except IU and Notre Dame aren’t rivals. They’ve played each other twice since the 50’s, last occurrence in 1991. There’s no conflict of interest rooting for Notre Dame football in the fall and IU basketball through winter and spring, especially for non-alums of either school which make up 99% of the “reversible jacket” crowd.

Why would it be conflicting? Notre Dame Football fans root for Notre Dame football. They aren’t playing IU’s basketball team are they? And I’ve lost interest in a 9th place B10 football team to even care.

And reversible jacket isn’t?

I don’t see the logic in a Wal-Mart Wolverine fan from a different state chiding a resident of Indiana for rooting for local teams in different sports.

Brother, you root for Michigan lol. Who are you to lecture about fandom? Is a reversible jacket fan any worse than a bandwagon/front-runner fan?

Really? From everything I've heard Helton appears to be the front runner

Most favorable in order 1. Tennessee 2. Penn State 3. Notre Dame 4. Texas/Georgia 5. Ohio State IU is slotted to play Georgia as it stands but I don't see how that's possible. Georgia is either going to beat Texas and move into the 2 seed and get a bye or they'll lose and drop a line or two. Penn State stands to drop the furthest this week especially if they lose big. A 10-2 Penn State should drop below Ohio State factoring in H2H. Assuming Oregon beats Penn State, I believe IU will be the 10 seed playing 7 seed Penn State if Georgia wins or will be the 9 seed playing Tennessee if Texas wins.

Nah not really. Mt Vernon has a D1 kid committed to Purdue (Luke Ertel who lives in Lawrence Township and attended CYO grade school in Indianapolis) and would have been a very formidable contender this year had these two brothers not transferred out. Mt Vernon also had a kid a few years back (Jake Davis Mercer/now at Illinois) elect to go to Cathedral after attending Mt Vernon schools K-8. Pete Werner also attended Mt. Vernon his freshman/sophomore year before transferring to Cathedral way back when. Think Mt. Vernon is simply sick of losing kids to Cathedral and this move by the principal was a future deterrent.

I'll never forget when Jordan Walker and Eron Gordon both transferred from North Central to Cathedral after their sophomore years. Both schools signed off on the transfers and were immediately eligible to play. The IHSAA took one look at the last name Gordon and put their foot down. Didn't give a second thought to Walker who actually ended up being the better player of the two in college.

It's hypocrisy. The best athlete at Mt Vernon is a Lawrence Township kid who went to a CYO school through 8th grade. He has several older siblings who were D1 athletes that all took the same path. Lawrence Township kids, primarily from the affluent Geist area, have been jumping county lines for years to play at Mt Vernon.

Someone should remind Mt Vernon how many kids they have enjoyed from Lawrence Township over the years.

Westfield and Brownsburg are definitely Metro-Indy. I consider Marion and all the surrounding counties as part of Metro-Indy, however I believe the official Metro-Indy consensus includes all of Marion and the donut counties as well as Brown, Tipton, Morgan, and Shelby counties.

In Columbus for the biggest IU game of all-time and saw Westfield beat Crown Point 30-7? Yikes

I'll go Westfield 21-10 and Center Grove 28-24

Penalties and turnovers finally reared its ugly head for Lawrence North. Credit to Brownsburg for hanging in there and having the stones to go for 2 at the end, but always thought LN's biggest obstacle would be themselves. I'm rolling with Center Grove for here on out. Lawrence North probably the only team left whop can outscore the Trojans and they are no longer alive. CG playing its best football as of late.

Success breeds success, what's new there? I'm talking about tampering and transferring running rampant here in central Indy...with public schools being the biggest offenders. Kids playing at multiple schools over 4 years. A kid living on one side of town playing for a high school on the other side of town. Kids jumping county lines to play sports. Kids following AAU coaches. It's happening everywhere.