Indiana’s Surprise Climb to Top 5 in College Football

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00:00The great, uh, Jerry Palm, our good friend from CBS sports.

00:06You can follow him on X at J P P Palm, P a L M CBS at J P P Palm CBS.

00:14Uh, it's good to have you back on Jerry.

00:16Uh, let's talk first about.

00:19Uh, Indiana being number five in the country and they got it done.

00:25Anyways, slice it against Michigan.

00:27It was Harry in the second half.

00:29Roark did nothing, but the defense stepped up the punt return.

00:32I thought saved the day for them.

00:34And they got the extra three out of it.

00:37And they win it by five when they've been scoring 47 plus a week and their

00:42defense has been top five in college football, you can't even explain

00:45it to me how this has happened.

00:47Other than Cignetti got a bunch of guys that are veteran players, third and

00:52four year guys that have won awards playing at every level and are experienced.

00:57And they got a good quarterback and they got all those players from

01:00JMU to can flat out play and he's a winner.

01:04That's just, that's all there is to it.

01:06Yeah, it's been tremendous.

01:09It looks like he brought in like a Sunbelt all-star team with him, which a

01:12lot of James Madison guys would be on.

01:14Uh, but it's, that's college football these days, right?

01:17You don't need years and years to build up.

01:20If you can get transfers in, you know, you can really put a roster

01:23together right away and he's done that.

01:26And Indiana is a weird team for the committee.

01:28They are number eight in the, in the college football playoff rankings last

01:32week, probably move up a little this week, but it's, it, they have the worst

01:37schedule you could possibly put together for a team and until last week they were

01:42annihilating everybody and Michigan gave them a fight first team all year to do

01:46that, but India, we're 10 games into the season for them and not one of their

01:50opponents has made it to bowl eligible yet.

01:53And only one could do it this week.

01:55So it's just, it's, you couldn't, like, if you intended to put together a

02:00schedule this bad, you probably wouldn't be able to do it, but the committee's

02:04giving them credit as they should for doing the best you can against that

02:08schedule, which is to light, light everybody up and now to get a week off

02:13to prepare for Ohio state, the one, you know, excellent team on their schedule.

02:17And, you know, this is where we find out about Indiana, you know, can

02:20they hang with Ohio state?

02:22Can they beat Ohio state at their place?

02:24If they can, they've got a shot to get a buy in the college football playoff

02:29to maybe even win the thing, but that's a big task going into Columbus and

02:35trying to beat Ohio state.

02:36There is a big task for everybody, no matter how good you are.

02:39So we'll see what Indiana has got for Ohio state in a couple of weeks, but you

02:43know, that's really the litmus test for them.

02:45That's where we find out just how good Indiana really is.

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