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Michigan Tale of the Tape … IU:9 top 10 rankings to Mich:1

Indiana 8/10Michigan NR
AVGNCAA
Rank
CategoryNCAA
Rank
AVG
476.28Total Offense127299.4
191.930Rushing Offense62165.1
284.319Passing Offense128134.3
46.62Scoring Offense11621.0
261.03Total Defense47345.1
72.61Rushing Defense23109.3
188.428Passing Yards Allowed95235.8
13.77Scoring Defense5723.3
1.1110Turnover Margin102-0.56
.50573rd Down Conversion Pct69.400
.588484th Down Conversion Pct8.769
.9448Red Zone Offense96.810
.84265Red Zone Defense44.806
2294First Downs Gained119143
13714First Downs Allowed82173
4.8924Fewest Penalties/Game104.44
31:1142Time of Possession6030:28

TopTendiana

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?

Smerconish this morning

Smerconish was talking about not turning singular irregularities into something more. He was quoting someone else, saying that we have voting locations that will average double the foot traffic of a Starbucks. These voting locations are one day popups. The workers are woefully underpaid.

Let me add undertrained. For decades I worked, we had a 2 hour training session, that was it. It had no role playing, no job shadowing, nothing. A person at the front lecturing. Your average Starbucks employee is better paid and much better trained.

There is a margin of error on election day. Do we think every Chick-fil-A balances every register to the penny every day? There will be precincts not balanced to the vote.

Looks like a replay of the M$U game will be on BTN

If you're like me and didn't get to watch it live or missed portions of it due to outages it appears that the replay will be on BIG in 60 today at 5pm EST for the first time... They usually repeat those games throughout the week if you miss it today...

Caveat: Sometimes my feed mistitles the actual content so apologies in advance if that's the case...

Michigan Trap Game

It's fun to look at the rankings and projections and to indulge in speculations but the most important thing is to be 1-0 against Michigan. We know the maize and blue have talent and I'm sure they will relish playing the role of spoiler. It sounds weird to say but in 2024 Michigan is a trap game. Michigan's lackluster 5-4 record, IU breaching the Top 12 nationally and thus being in the CFP picture, the looming showdown with Ohio State. Everybody's patting our guys on the back and telling them how great they are. There's no need to do anything differently, trust in the process that got you here, but stay focused on what's in front of you and deal with next week when it gets here. How many times in sports do we see teams drop the ball in situations like this? Danger Will Robinson! Rat poison alert.

11/4/24 Indiana Sports Beat Radio w/ Don Fischer, Greg Rakestraw

Indiana football sets a new program mark with a 9-0 start, but are looking for more. Don Fischer joins to talk about the dominating performance from both sides of the ball in East Lansing and the weekend ahead as Michigan comes to Bloomington. Hear from Curt Cignetti and Kurtis Rourke. Indiana high School playoffs continue, and the Colts are, well, not good at the moment. Much more.
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