November College Football - This Could be Special For Me and few Million Others

    There are a few million BYU football fans; there are also likely a few million Indiana Hoosier football fans. Then there is me, who is a lifelong fan of both. Make that into a Venn diagram. Cougars / Hoosiers.

    And as of the end of October 2024, both are 8-0 and looking great. This is not normal. This is weird. Strange. Pretty cool.

    Wow. 

    I have had this blog since 2014, more than ten years (I also had two foxsports blogs from 2006 to 2009 (they nuked it!)); I have written about the Brigham Young and Indiana squads plenty of times. Many. Almost every year if not more. In 2021 I wrote a weekly update of a number of teams, like seven mostly, and both my alma maters were involved. Of course those two, plus seven more that were teams of the people that I shared the reports with. I even got a request to be in the distro of another person of the weekly report, small that it was.

    So, this year: WOW. Things are amazing, I am somewhat at a loss because of the lack of losses. Things are incredibly hopeful! 

    The schedules do not look too bad for either program, although Ohio State AND Michigan are never easy. Nor Utah, for BYU.

    Indiana has Michigan State this Saturday. It will be... in East Lansing at 3:30 pm. Indiana should be able to handle it, with our second-string quarterback Tayvon Jackson, brother of former IU basketball star Trace Jackson-Davis, now playing well in the pros. With the best three-point shooter of all time, but that is beside the point.

    IU can play! And the Spartans should not stop them. I plan on watching in six days. By the way, Indiana has not been 8-0 since 1967, when my parents moved to Bloomington. And the Hoosiers wound up in their only Rose Bowl and lost to OJ Simpson and the USC Trojans. Still. This team is tempting fate.

    On November 9, a Saturday at an undetermined hour, the Hoosiers plays the Michigan Wolverines, who are down. Not out. Never out with these guys. Should be fun. Yes? Maybe our regular QB is back by then, which could be best. With Tayvon as an extra weapon? And the defense healthy, hopefully?

    Then there is the show-down: maybe the game of the year. IU lines up against big, bad, Ohio State, that barely beat Nebraska this week. IU crushed the Cornhuskers, so.... Not as bad as some have thought. After a bye week of November 16, we play them November 23rd. Tell me the hour, I have to see this. It is in Ohio, at the Horseshoe.

    No problem.

    Finally, we finish with the down (this '24 season poor) Purdue Boilermakers back in the friendly confines of Memorial Stadium; we need to whip those dudes. They ripped us off in 2020 Covid year when we would have smoked them, too. 2020 was a good year for the Hoosiers despite the 

    And then, the Big Ten Championship? Or would that be Oregon and Ohio State again? And then, the twelves team College Football Championship? Who knows? Stay tuned, November.

    This is a crazy time for IU fans, and BYU too... Which I am with both, due to factors that we should know. (Grew up in B-town, got a degree in 1999. Attend school in Provo and got a Bachelors in 1995.)

    That will be in a next post. What does the Y have to 

    Maybe I will get into the coaches and players, too. Sure, Kilani, Retzlaff, Cignetti, Ponds, and all the rest!