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Biggest home game since 1967

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Despite IU's woeful history in terms of college football there still have been many fantastic games played at Memorial Stadium and for a variety of circumstances/reasons. For each of us there may be that one particular game we remember as THE BIGGEST game for IU. I sit here this morning pondering all of the seasons in which I attended games and endured IU getting it handed to them the way IU gave it to MSU yesterday, and WASH the week before, and NEB before that and so on. I was a student at IU during the time when Wisc had been previously known as a game IU could win on the schedule; then, that all changed and Wisc started kicking a$$ every year.

It is my hope this year is that year for IU; where IU is the team others dread seeing on the schedule; hello, NEB and Scott Frost's desire to play IU every year . . . how's that working out for you now? This team is special, this season is like no other, and Saturday is the game that can set the mark never before achieved by an IU football team; no matter the opponent, Saturday has the potential to be The Biggest Game to ever be played at Memorial Stadium.
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Is anyone for Micah Beckwith?

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The Indiana Lieutenant Governor is the point person for agriculture in the Governor's office, and it also has influence with tourism. I don't know that Beckwith will help with either of these, and he might be enough a sideshow to be a major headache.

McCormick picked a serious person with experience that can do the job. There was some groaning from the Dem base, because he had some socially conservative views. However, he still got an easy majority of votes at the convention.

Braun tried to do the same, but got railroaded at the convention by true believers. Not a good omen for the future, if Braun wins.
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Polls - - a week out

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mcmurtry66 said:
Trump won. Harris didn’t receive a single vote from the public and when she ran got trounced. She should not have been chosen
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Should have been Shapiro, but Dems were stuck with the sitting VP.

I realize he won, which makes me question the soul and intelligence if this country. Literally every other candidate in the R side would have appealed to more people. The lunatics and uneducated are currently in charge and that is scary.
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We learned one thing today

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Tammany Hall said:
Gee, thanks for sounding the alarm on Ohio State. The team we have played almost every year for decades. It’s groundbreaking to learn they’re very good.
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IU has played OSU, Michigan, Penn State and MSU every year. Northwestern, has not. So why on earth does a NW fan think we don't know OSU....better than a NW fan.

NW has benefited from a soft B1G West schedule for a long time and once things leveled off....suddenly they're trash. Go figure.
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TopTendiana

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daddyhoosier said:
Yesterday #9windiana became a reality, not just a t-shirt in Spartyville. In a few hours TopTendiana will also manifest in space and time.

10 Texas A&M lost
11 Clemson lost
11 Iowa State lost 😃

The way has been paved. Can they jump any higher? 8 Notre Dame and 9 BYU did not play. I would put Indiana ahead of the Irish for sure, they lost to a MAC team. BYU has been impressive but I would still give the nod to the Cigniana Hoosiers. 🚬

Will the voters agree? Meh, it's getting late in the season so things are less fluid. It could happen but I'd be a little surprised.

This absolutely won't happen but you can make the argument to put Indiana ahead of Penn State and Tennessee, which would put us in 6th. Again I'm not predicting it but a rational case can be made imo.

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Completely agree with everything here. I anticipate being #10 later today. My hope is that the CFP committee does what they're supposed to do on Tuesday and not take preseason rankings into account. If they do that, we should be closer to #6 like you said. But I'm not getting my hopes up for that.
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We learned one thing today

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rrdd2021 said:
I'm not OSU. I'm Northwestern and you're in for a rude awakening on 11/23.

So, since you blew out Nebraska and OSU struggled with them, I imagine you're going to give me points if I take that crappy OSU team. How many are you giving me?
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Wait, why is a Northwestern fan over here talking smack? 😄 🤣
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Mea Culpa

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Carib04 said:
I predicted 42-14. It was 47-10. My bad. I'm still cautious but now it has nothing to do with IU but the fact that, in my lifetime, I've never seen an IU football team like this. How do I act? I find myself feeling like a hiker in the woods and night has fallen, hoping you don't step off a cliff, that the other shoe doesn't drop, that you don't discover where the chickens have come to roost. You can't discount the remaining games (even if Purdue is sucking) but 12-0? Why the hell not. I may grow hair, win the lottery or take a beautiful Colombian bride. Seems all manner of miracles are possible.
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Sofia Vergara?
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Harris vs. Trump 2024

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Aloha Hoosier said:
UNSAT if true. I never used one of those since I always got mine from Indiana, and then Texas. Each unit assigns an officer to help personnel with voting and sending for state ballots early. It got easier when they could do it online. Those federal absentee ballots are for the relatively few that didn’t get the state ballot. If it’s true and anyone doesn’t get to vote it’s a problem. They aren’t nearly guaranteed Republican votes any longer but they’re likely more Republican than Democrat.
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That’s what I thought. I figured most requested from their home districts. Didn’t even realize the pentagon sent out ballots.
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Polls - - a week out

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snarlcakes said:
That poll is bat shit crazy. I will say if Trump loses by a wider margin than he did in 2020 it will most likely be because he got trounced in the 65 plus voters…aka the asset class. They have done pretty well the past 4 years and are more shielded from inflation. They have already paid for their big tickets items in life; houses, education, child care, healthcare, and etc.
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They are both such awful candidates it makes it hard to handicap. Literally every other Republican candidate would have trounced her.

He has pissed off women, many (not all) minorites, does poorly with college educated suburbanites, and does little to reach out to independents.
And yet he may very well win the race.

I'm only 52, but fit with the class you described. My portfolio has done great the last few years. I certainly won't credit all that to Biden, but I simply don't trust Trump not to go crazy on tariffs and isolationism. We aren't perfect, but we are currently damn better off than most economies all things considered.
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Biggest home game since 1967

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Bowlmania said:
I was refreshing my memory this morning on past seasons, and I'm thinking this Saturday's game against the Wolverines will be our biggest home game since the 1967 Bucket game that punched our ticket to Pasadena.

What other home games since the Rose Bowl season have been huge? The first that comes to mind is the October 1987 game against Michigan, the game where Schembechler complained about the crowd noise at Memorial Stadium. That was definitely a big game (and huge win), coming on the heels of our "darkest day" win in Columbus a few weeks earlier. But it was only October, IU was just 3-0 in conference play coming in, and our #15 national ranking was lower than what it's going to be this weekend.

What else? 2020 was a special season. IU was 6-1 in conference play. But it was the shortened Covid season, and with only hundreds in attendance, it's tough to consider any of those games among IU's all-time biggest home games. (That Penn State game, though, and Michael Penix's dive for the pylon, will always be memorable).

What's at stake this Saturday? A win against Michigan would give us a 10-win season for the first time in program history. It would also enhance our position in the CFP rankings, increasing our chances of appearing in the 12-team playoff. Finally, a win this weekend would almost guarantee a no-worse-than 11-1 regular season (Purdue is awful) and a possible date in Indy on December 7.

Go Hoosiers!
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Nail on the head on this, Bowlmania. Well said. Let's go Hoosiers!!!
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Polls - - a week out

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snarlcakes said:
That poll is bat shit crazy. I will say if Trump loses by a wider margin than he did in 2020 it will most likely be because he got trounced in the 65 plus voters…aka the asset class. They have done pretty well the past 4 years and are more shielded from inflation. They have already paid for their big tickets items in life; houses, education, child care, healthcare, and etc.
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Ann was bought off. Look at the cross tabs. It's like she only polled the female students at Howard University.
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Harris vs. Trump 2024

Aloha Hoosier
dbmhoosier said:
Why would they do this? 🤔

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UNSAT if true. I never used one of those since I always got mine from Indiana, and then Texas. Each unit assigns an officer to help personnel with voting and sending for state ballots early. It got easier when they could do it online. Those federal absentee ballots are for the relatively few that didn’t get the state ballot. If it’s true and anyone doesn’t get to vote it’s a problem. They aren’t nearly guaranteed Republican votes any longer but they’re likely more Republican than Democrat.
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TopTendiana

daddyhoosier
Yesterday #9windiana became a reality, not just a t-shirt in Spartyville. In a few hours TopTendiana will also manifest in space and time.

10 Texas A&M lost
11 Clemson lost
11 Iowa State lost 😃

The way has been paved. Can they jump any higher? 8 Notre Dame and 9 BYU did not play. I would put Indiana ahead of the Irish for sure, they lost to a MAC team. BYU has been impressive but I would still give the nod to the Cigniana Hoosiers. 🚬

Will the voters agree? Meh, it's getting late in the season so things are less fluid. It could happen but I'd be a little surprised.

This absolutely won't happen but you can make the argument to put Indiana ahead of Penn State and Tennessee, which would put us in 6th. Again I'm not predicting it but a rational case can be made imo.

Thoughts?
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Is anyone for Micah Beckwith?

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Cortez88 said:
I don’t understand the laser focus on property taxes. In Indiana, we don’t have high property taxes and have a low overall tax burden. Being the cheapest place to live is not helping a lot of Indiana counties.

We should be focusing on making Indiana a better place to live. This policy will do the opposite. It will reduce funds to schools and local governments. This means cuts to local police and fire. Public education will suffer and education is one area we need increased funding.
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A deeper dive would probably reveal tremendous benefit to Mike & his family from the reduced property taxes, much like the corridor.
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