I think Iowa beats this Indiana team 17 to 10.
What is the score if Indiana was playing in Iowa City tonight?
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I don’t know who wins, but I am thoroughly convinced Indiana wins the fake ID award of college football for 2024.
who is our QB?
Cade? We lose by 3 TDs
Silly? We lose by 2 TDs
Cade? We lose by 3 TDs
Silly? We lose by 2 TDs
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I think if Iowa ever makes a playoff, it will look a lot like this.
Their win over Michigan looks better after Mich beat OSU, but the rest of the wins were against .500 teams and below.
If they played the Hawks tonight at Kinnick, would like to think the Hawks could find a way between KJ2 and the defense, but it's a moot point.
Iowa was bipolar this year. Good Iowa, beats tonight’s Indiana team. Bad Iowa probably loses.
I don’t think Iowa would get the kind of pressure on the QB combined with the D backfield coverage that ND is getting. ND totally rattled the Indiana QB and made him look like Cade tonight.
You may be right, but SMU still has a case to make. A lot of good teams would lose by 10 points at Notre Dame, especially after giving up a freak 98 yd TD. ND is a legit national title contender.
Nothing about 11-2 is fraudulent
no different than most 11 and 12 seeds are going to fare against the OSU's, Alabama's etc. Blow outs will be common as you will have 4th place teams playing at Conference champions home stadiums.
Matt Hayes with USA said this morning Indiana basically won 11 games this year against "air." So I'll go with that. They had no business in the playoff.
This Indiana team feels a lot like the 2015 Iowa team. Overall great season that ended with a touch of reality.
Iowa of the old west
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The playoffs should have been limited to 8 teams. More is not always better. If you're ranked #9 you have no business playing for a national title, anyway in college football. No need for a bye for teams. Set them up and put them on the field...3 games and you have a national title. I think the championship will be decided in the next round. Oregon and Ohio State are the best two teams. As long as the OSU coaches don't outthink themselves again, I'm picking them to win it all.
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The 2015 Hawkeyes say hello.
Indiana wasn't a great team, but they were very good. Iowa ended with a good record, but I'm not willing to say they could stay with Indiana. They had a lot of inconsistency on both sides of the ball this year.
Although the difference imo is Indiana blew out most teams on their schedule. Easy schedule, yes, but they made it looks easy most of the time.
I thought their QB looked like a hybrid of Deacon and Spencer….🤪 Wow - when he ran it felt like he had cement shoes on….
I think any fourth place Big Ten team that makes the playoffs will look similar to this. The conference has always been top heavy. Once you get down to fourth place with an unbalanced schedule, it's likely to be a team that's decent, but played a schedule with only one of the top three teams on it. I was hoping Notre Dame fell into the same realm since their schedule was just as easy.
12 teams is too many. They fixed a broken system by implementing a broken system.
All about $$$$$. In the end no perfect model.
That being said I like 12. Makes games more interesting in Nov. gives programs like ours a chance some years. Opens up for an upset or underdog storyline where higher seeds wins a game or 2 and makes semis. I agree in the end semis most likely be similar if they only had 4 teams like old model but gives us more football to watch. Normally this weekend would be a nfl game, bad bowl matchups and maybe get lucky with college bball or 2 of interest (like Iowa Utah for Hawk fans). Instead we got 3 games spread out and a good night game with OSU Tenn.
They beat UCLA handily at the Rose Bowl also beat MSU. Two teams we lost to. Also beat Michigan. #1 rush defense and diverse offense. Highly doubt the Hawks would have won.
Agree, asking kids to play four extra games is BS. Eight teams max or shorten the season by eliminating a fluff game.
12 teams is great, 24 would be better. Don’t like like it? Just watch basketball the first couple rounds.
Based on recent history vs ranked opponents, I predict Indiana 31-2 (a special teams safety).
Well I can't speak for everyone here, but that humiliating 56-7 beat down of 5-1 Nebraska to start their 1-5 season ending slide was my favorite. Their fans were getting pretty chirpy leading up to that one.
