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If Indiana starts beating Notre Dame in football, then what does that do to the reversable jacket phenomenon?

They don't play often enough for that to be an issue. If Indiana turned into a consistent playoff team--excuse me, I just threw up in my mouth a little--and Notre Dame falls of the map, after a decade or so they might just all become Indiana fans. 

That said, it's not like Indiana's basketball team has been a thing for a decade or so, and that hasn't stopped them from wearing red in the winter. 

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.

Yeah, our crowd was like that. We'd all stay in the hotel and on Sunday mornings they'd wake up in their Packer shit and hang out in the breakfast room.

We'd just leave.

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.

ND is one-dimensional.  Their QB turns way too many called pass plays into scrambles.  IU (despite the best run D in the country) couldn't stop ND's run game.  One would thing a team like UGA, which specializes in doing such, would be able to do so.  Even with this year's version of Georgia not being GEORGIA, it makes sense to be selling on ND.