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GameDay to Bloomington?

The good news is that NEB/IND is an absolutely perfect game to get GameDay for. Dormant program with big-time coach hire who became the first FBS team to be bowl-eligible in 2024.

Now the bad news—UGA/TEX and ALA/TENN are the same week, and both are ESPN-controlled games (NEB/IND is not). Of course, GameDay has been to Austin and Knoxville a gazillion times. They’ve been to Bloomington…once, and that wasn’t even for a Saturday game (Thursday opener vs. OSU).

So if we want GameDay to come to Bloomington, I think a campaign may be in order. (And if we don’t, to hell with it. :) )

More Program Firsts — Updated for NW

From Post Game Notes: https://iuhoosiers.com/news/2024/9/21/football-postgame-notes-vs-charlotte

• Indiana starts a season 4-0 for the eighth time in program history. The last 4-0 start came in 2020, with others in 2015, 1990, 1986, 1985, 1967 and 1910. IU started four other seasons with 3-0-1 records (1988, 1945, 1898, 1897).

Curt Cignetti is the only Indiana head coach to start his head coaching tenure with a 4-0 record.

• Indiana's 202 points through four games are the most in any four-game stretch in program history. The previous best was 183 points in 2015 (Week 11 through Bowl).

• The Hoosiers are the first FBS team to eclipse the 200-point mark in 2024.

• IU scored 50-plus points in multiple games in the same season for just the seventh time in program history.

•The six rushing touchdowns mark just the third time since at least 1996 that IU has scored six-or-more rushing touchdowns in multiple games in a single season.

• With just 256 yards of total offense allowed versus Charlotte, the 2024 defense is the first since at least 1996 to allow fewer than 300 yards of total offense in four straight games.

• Charted 500 total yards of offense for the second time this season (Western Illinois, 9/6). It is the first time since 2019 that Indiana logged 500-plus yards of offense in multiple games.

John Amos passed away

This article said he died on Aug 21st. Did any of you hear about this earlier? I loved him in just about everything I saw him in. James Evans on Goodtimes. Adult Kunta Kinte on Roots. Mr. McDowell on Coming to America. RIP John Amos
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