Indiana Unbeaten at 9-0: A Perfect Football Season so Far

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00:00The last time that Indiana started a football season 9 and 0.

00:07Here is the answer.

00:08You were nowhere because it's never happened.

00:10For the first time in 137 seasons of this Hoosiers football program in Bloomington,

00:16Kurt Cignetti has led Indiana to a perfect 9 and 0 start.

00:21Indiana one of five remaining undefeated teams at the FBS level around the country and not

00:26only is Indiana 9 and 0, they have won all nine games by at least two touchdowns and

00:32are covering in eight of the nine.

00:35And Joe Lisi, for the first time since 1968, when you were just a young pup, Indiana is

00:41favored to beat Michigan in a football game.

00:44That was unkind of me, but we have to have a little fun.

00:47Not only is Indiana favored to beat Michigan for the first time since 1968, it's not just

00:52a point or a field goal or even a touchdown, it is a 14 and a half point spread in favor

00:59of the Hoosiers.

01:00Joe, will it be a comfortable ride for Indiana today against the reigning national champs?

01:05I don't think so.

01:06This could be a smash play for me in terms of Michigan.

01:10I really like...

01:11Michigan?

01:12Yeah, Michigan.

01:13Just Michigan.

01:14Well, not me.

01:15Me?

01:16Sure, and we're not to that point.

01:17We're not there yet.

01:18We're not there yet.

01:19Let me just say this.

01:20All the credit to Kirk Cignetti for blowing through the five and a half win total, for

01:23making them one of the Cinderella teams of this year.

01:27There's a few of them, them and BYU, respectively.

01:29They're doing it from an offensive perspective.

01:32What a transition for Curtis Roark, coming from Ohio, to do a fantastic job.

01:37One of the best quarterbacks in the Big Ten.

01:39Back-to-back games, four touchdowns, no interceptions.

01:42You look at Indiana, they're averaging 284 through the air.

01:46They're $1.70 on the ground, physical, in terms of run support.

01:51But the series, when you just look at teams having the upper hand over a certain program,

01:56and I know every year is different, but the numbers suggest Michigan will be in this game

02:00for the 14 points.

02:02You look at it.

02:03They have won 27 of the last 28 meetings in the series.

02:08Last time that Indiana won outright was 2020 with Michael Pinnocks.

02:12That was also the year that Indiana knocked off Penn State and in Michigan, Michigan,

02:17in the same respective years.

02:19It's going to be difficult for me.

02:20I think Michigan could shorten the game, run the football with the Danger Man, Donovan

02:25Edwards and Mullings.

02:26I think somehow, someway, they're in the number.

02:29But all the testament to Kirk Cignetti, they've done a fantastic job.

02:33Indiana is an anomaly.

02:38We saw TCU a few years ago, right?

02:41People didn't really believe, and then they'd win the game, but you go, I'm telling you,

02:45it's not real.

02:46And it never came true.

02:48They lost that big 12 title game.

02:49But then obviously the national championship game is a mess.

02:53The comparisons to TCU are for BYU, not Indiana.

02:57They are a death machine, war machine, super laser.

03:02I don't come up with just crazy things.

03:04That's what they are.

03:05I actually think Michigan could win this game.

03:09And I'm so scared of Indiana.

03:10I'm not taking 14 and a half points.

03:13That's how scary they are.

03:15I've tried.

03:16I had a buddy who usually will text me for my picks on a Saturday.

03:21And I sent him my card, and he goes, I like everything but your Michigan State plus eight

03:26bet, right?

03:27We were getting.

03:28He goes, should we take Indiana?

03:29And I was like, are you an idiot?

03:31Like, did you just ask me for my picks and ask me to, like, what is wrong with you, right?

03:35They were up 10-0 Michigan State, and I was going to text him.

03:38I was like, I'll leave it alone.

03:39Like, who cares?

03:40And then ended up getting texts from him saying, I told you about Indiana, who went on a 47-0

03:47run.

03:48They're not squeaking games out.

03:50They're slaughtering everyone.

03:52And one of the reasons Indiana is a little bit more believable is Curtis O'Rourke, Curtis

03:56O'Rourke, who has played really good football in his college career, but not at this level.

04:02And sometimes we don't think that those guys are going to progress or make a wild comp

04:05for people.

04:06Dalton Connect is what Curtis O'Rourke reminds me of, where Dalton Connect was not supposed

04:11to show up to the SEC last year and be one of the five best players in college hoops.

04:15But guess what?

04:16He was, because he was really good when he was playing.

04:19You have to remind me where he played before he went.

04:21Northern Colorado.

04:22There you go.

04:23He was awesome.

04:24And it just translated.

04:25For Curtis O'Rourke, it's translated.

04:26And Cignetti's a monster.

04:27I'm playing Davis Warren passing because that, to me, is the safest angle somehow in this

04:31game, and I don't know how that's possible.

04:35I said this the other day, and I meant it.

04:37If you vote them one in the AP poll, I don't have a single problem with it.

04:41I really don't.

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