Home School Fans Episode 1: Preseason Sizing Up Competition IU - 2022 Pt. 7     

   Indiana is not expected to do well this fall. What else is new? Last year they bottomed out, and went the wrong direction from their surprisingly good season the year before, in the lockdown pandemic of 2020. That year they had a miracle upset of Penn State, beat Michigan and Wisconsin. Purdue wimped out, skerred, with the Covid.

    This season people are thinking maybe 3 or 4 wins for the boys from B-town, only. I am a die-hard Indiana Hoosier fan, so I am gambling on 7-5, but I will totally take 6-6 and any bowl. I repeat: any bowl!

    I live by optimism and hope. Not always based in the cold, hard facts of reality. The football Hoosiers struggle to win, all the time. It is always uphill. Okay, so be it.

    Here is who the Hoosiers play from September to November. I may catch a game, we shall see. I may keep you posted. IU's team under Tom Allen is ranked 72. Right? Some teams in that realm have easy enough schedules to be picked for bowls. Not Indiana.

Their twelve scheduled games, with pre-season Lindy's Sports rank picks accompanied:

Illinois (78)

Idaho (FCS, picked 10th of 12 in the Big Sky)

Western Kentucky (79)

Cincinnati (21)

Nebraska (48)

Michigan (6)

Maryland (49)

Rutgers (74)

Penn State (27)

Ohio State (2)

Michigan (6)

Purdue (32)

    

Lots of competition.

They need to play a few teams tough, obviously beating their non-conference foes Western Kentucky and Idaho, but potentially give the BearCats what they almost did last year. It was close, and Cinncy went on to a tremendous season, upsetting the Irish. They can beat Illinois, Rutgers, and Maryland, and maybe pull off upsets of Nberaska and Purdue...

It could happen.

Other upsets? What else? Why not?

Blog it...