Indiana Football Finally Cracks The AP Poll's Top 10 And Gets Some Deserved Respect
Football school. Better late than never, but never late is better. It only took 9 week for the Indiana football team to get a little respect, and they are now ranked #8 in the country. That's not a typo, it's the year 2024, and your Hoosiers are a top 10 football program. Rankings are the most fugazi thing going in college athletics (other than NIL programs being one degree of separation from drug dealers), but it would simply be nice to get an iota of recognition. The fact that IU hasn't trailed for a second until week 9 where they went into the biggest trap game of all time against Michigan State is bonkers (they won by 37 by the way.) This is coming off a game where IU spanked a Big 10 opponent with their backup quarterback.
Has IU played the toughest schedule in the world? No, but when you're leading the FBS in points differential and completely shitting down the throats of your opponents, what more does a team have to do to get respect? Notre Dame lost AT HOME to Northern Fucking Illinois and until this week they were ranked higher than the Hoosiers. Oh, they beat Navy on a neutral sight? Wow. Cool. Nothing but love for Navy, but give me a break. Notre Dame is living off their name, and the fact that people still get a hard on for the movie Rudy. Even the Ohio States of the world who have only lost to a great Oregon team have looked like dog shit against lesser opponents. Some of those opponents OSU ekeed out wins against, IU hung a 50 burger on. A wins a win, but no one has been winning like the Hoosiers, and blowout wins should mean something for the rankings.
Despite IU being ready for every game, and blowing the doors off every opponent, the only way to truly get recognized is to beat Ohio State in a few weeks. Any team in the country would be reading their own headlines, start getting an ego, and slip up, but IU hasn't missed a beat this season with Cig holding the reigns. The way Cig has the blinders on his team to focus only on the next opponent is like the ghost of Bobby Knight has taken human form in a football coach. So with the defending National Champs coming to Bloomington next week, I know the team will be ready and not looking ahead to Ohio State. In the word's of Coach Cig - This team is disciplined, relentless, and never satisfied. Other programs might have more notoriety, and a higher bank roll which helps them land the best recruits, but Indiana is THE BEST OVERALL TEAM in college football. If your program has a problem with it, come play the Hoosiers. In Cig We Trust.
Indiana Football Can Do All Things Through Cig Who Strengthens Us - Hoosiers 9:0