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Topic: #10 Indiana (11-2) at #7 Notre Dame (12-1) Post Game

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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #14 on: December 09, 2024, 10:29:48 AM »
I suspect Indiana would be "easiest to beat" in the next round, so yeah, go Whosiers?  Then again beating Notre Dame is some fun I guess.
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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #15 on: December 09, 2024, 12:07:43 PM »
I'm not so sure.....

Hoosiers had a tough game vs OSU in the Shoe.

Some special teams gaffs lead to things getting out of control

They could easily play clean on special teams and give any playoff team a game

Or not...
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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #16 on: December 09, 2024, 12:14:57 PM »
Looking forward to this game.  Will of course be cheering against Notre Dame but think the Irish win this one.  
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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #17 on: December 09, 2024, 12:19:18 PM »
I hope I'm wrong but it seems to me that Indiana is REALLY good at beating the crap out of bad teams but not actually equipped to take on high-end teams.  Michigan and Ohio State obliterated their OL and I think ND will do that too.  
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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #18 on: December 09, 2024, 12:26:41 PM »
why didn't ND obliterate NIU's O-line?
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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #19 on: December 09, 2024, 12:40:54 PM »
Good/fair question, but some version of this question can be asked of essentially any team in the field except for Oregon, Texas, and Penn State.
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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #20 on: December 09, 2024, 12:41:06 PM »
Quote from: FearlessF on December 09, 2024, 12:26:41 PM
why didn't ND obliterate NIU's O-line?
Eh, upsets happen. Evaluating any team based on their worst game is misleading:
  • Oregon is barely better than Wisconsin. 
  • Georgia sucks (see OleMiss game).
  • Texas is 2TDs worse than UGA on their own field. 
  • Penn State is a TD worse than tOSU on their own field. 
  • See above
  • Ohio State sucks (see M game).
Etc 

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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #21 on: December 09, 2024, 03:05:08 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on December 09, 2024, 12:41:06 PM
Eh, upsets happen. Evaluating any team based on their worst game is misleading:
  • Hoosiers suck - see game in the shoe


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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #22 on: December 09, 2024, 03:47:22 PM »
@FearlessF , I get what you are saying but my defense is that I'm not cherry-picking but rather looking at the ONLY games they played all year against high end opposition.  

Indiana's schedule makes it tricky because they had a pathetic OOC and lucked into a REALLY weak league schedule so there isn't much of a basis of comparison.  
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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #23 on: December 09, 2024, 06:02:39 PM »
Because of my own bias, I think ND's win at SC should get a little attention as well. Is it a great win? No, but it's a good one.

ND as the favorite makes sense to me, but IU has been surprising me most of the season.
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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2024, 06:11:59 PM »
Quote from: medinabuckeye1 on December 09, 2024, 03:47:22 PM
@FearlessF , I get what you are saying but my defense is that I'm not cherry-picking but rather looking at the ONLY games they played all year against high end opposition. 

Indiana's schedule makes it tricky because they had a pathetic OOC and lucked into a REALLY weak league schedule so there isn't much of a basis of comparison. 
Exactly. Is Notre Dame a paper tiger? Probably. Not because they lost to NIU, but because Notre Dame will ALWAYS be considered a paper tiger by me until they prove otherwise. They're a good team, but I'm going to call them a CFP fraud unless they can show me they can play with the big boys. 

But they're not facing a "big boy". They're facing Indiana, a team that I don't trust to be the one that can expose Notre Dame's fraudulence. 

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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #25 on: December 09, 2024, 09:45:18 PM »
Quote from: betarhoalphadelta on December 09, 2024, 06:11:59 PM
Exactly. Is Notre Dame a paper tiger? Probably. Not because they lost to NIU, but because Notre Dame will ALWAYS be considered a paper tiger by me until they prove otherwise. They're a good team, but I'm going to call them a CFP fraud unless they can show me they can play with the big boys.

But they're not facing a "big boy". They're facing Indiana, a team that I don't trust to be the one that can expose Notre Dame's fraudulence.



If Indiana starts beating Notre Dame in football, then what does that do to the reversable jacket phenomenon? 
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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #26 on: December 09, 2024, 10:36:53 PM »
one of the first things I enjoyed when I moved to Indiana was find/discover those reversible jackets.   They really do exist! (the reversible jacket people).

I suppose that does exist in some other markets....somewhere.    Usually it's the cliffs' notes fan,  who are really Fans of the pro team 1st and foremost, and then front run the college team if things are going well.  Used to see this a ton growing up, Packers fans that would notice the Badgers Saturday morning until about 6pm on a Saturday, then it was back to the Pack.    Still that way quite a bit on the eastern side of the State.

I have yet to run into a Purdue fan making that wardrobe malfunction, or for that matter an actual ND fan.
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Re: #10 Indiana (11-1) at #7 Notre Dame (11-1) Game Week
« Reply #27 on: December 09, 2024, 11:11:22 PM »
LA seems like it would have a USC football/UCLA basketball crowd. 
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