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https://youtu.be/Cm2uyCsaJXc Finally saw the replay. I don't know how you call this. Helmets contacted, but it doesn't meet any of the other criteria. How does McFadden even avoid it? Ridder moved right into his path, and McFadden was moved into Ridder's path. Would have totally missed him otherwise.

No offense, but this is ridiculous. Top ten team with the hope of being the first G5 team in the playoff is what you are looking for, and even then, I think it's more of a subconscious "give the benefit of the doubt" to the "better" team and preserving Cincinnati's chances for the playoff rather than an active agenda.

I don't think it's that hard, either. Targeting 1 is akin to a facemask, roughing the passer, etc. Targeting 2 is acting with malice/intent and results in ejection. Honestly, I think they need to change this now, not wait until next season.

The announcers are now questioning how bad the officiating is. You know it's a special kind of bad if that's happening.

The only question remaining about the officiating is how much the SEC paid this crew. I actually kind of want PSU to lose, but the officiating is exceptionally one sided.

I think a lot of IU fans are massively overreacting to this game. This game was particularly frustrating in that, for the majority of the game, I think IU was the better team, but we beat ourselves continually. The defense with McFadden is elite. They made Cincinnati look TERRIBLE until he got ejected for targeting. After that, the defense was still decent, but lacked the aggression and pressure it was getting with McFadden in. Without that targeting call, I think there's a high likelihood IU heads into the half up 21-0 instead of 14-10. Just a massive swing in the game on that. I haven't had a chance to see the replay as I didn't really see it live, but it sounds like he got shoved into Ridder. If that's true, what a horrible call. I also thought the offense, outside of Penix, looked pretty good once it settled in and the offensive line looked, if not great, like it's improving week to week. I really like Penix, and I honestly thought before the year started he was going to have a banner year, and I still believe he has the potential to be that qb. Right now, though, I don't think he's really "back" from his injury. Physically maybe, but not mentally. It's really, really hard to win games, especially against good teams, when you throw 2-3 interceptions every game. It might be time to have Tuttle step in, at least for a little while, and maybe get McCulley some time against WKU if we have the opportunity.

Are you seriously asking this question as if you don't know that Purdue's schedule is a veritable cakewalk compared to IU's? You won't find sympathy on this here.

Whole game changed when the refs removed McFadden.

Everyone in the stadium except the refs saw it

ND being petty haha. It's also not the world's largest drum, so...

Took a look at the Cincinnati message boards. They by and large seem to be very confident, borderline arrogant, that they are going to win this game by a comfortable margin. I see a lot of citations of their stats and how their offense and defense ranks, completely disregarding that nearly all of those stats come against far, far inferior opponents than teams like IU or Iowa face day in and day out. Cincinnati is a really good team, and they may very well beat us, but OSU, PSU, or Iowa they are not. I think for the first time in my life as an IU football fan, I can say this will also be the most hostile crowd any of the Cincinnati players have played in front of in the last two years.

I believe it's general admission for students.

I think this year will be the best defense IU has ever had; I know they've been pretty good the past couple years, but I think they're going to be very hard to play against this year. With the recruits coming in, I think it's only getting better in the coming years. Special teams is extremely solid. Really, the only weakness I think we have is the offensive line. For this team to have another special season, they're really going to have to step it up. Penix still looks a little shaky, but even if he doesn't come around, Tuttle looked really good, confident, and calm in his time yesterday. His throws were absolutely on the money, too.

I'm in section 25, they sure as hell did! Time for everyone else!

Hot, not so hot take...Iowa>Ohio State

That was a devastating loss, but, at least to me, it honestly felt like the same kind of game OSU experienced against Purdue a few years ago. In the first five minutes, it just felt kind of fated to go the way it ended up going. Every bounce going Iowa's way, IU just couldn't get organized - I think a lot of people who have been IU fans see this and think, "here we go again," but I think those days are past us: sometimes it's just not your day. I also thought the defense played very well despite the score. Two pick 6's not their fault, and, in reality, stopped Iowa on 4th down the play before Petras rushed for the touchdown, though the officials gifted Iowa a first down on that by spotting the ball nearly a yard farther forward. Also, keep in mind that, though we ended up beating Penn State in the first game last year, Penix only had 170 yards in that one (and largely looked like he did yesterday), followed up by 238 against Rutgers in week two. Every other game he had over 300 yards, culminating in the near 500 yard game against OSU before getting injured against Maryland. I fully expect him to come around in the next couple games. I guess, in short, what I'm saying is that though this game was arguably the worst of Allen's tenure (the next closest, at least in my mind, was also against Iowa fwiw), I'm not really all that concerned just yet. Penix made the same kind of mistakes he made in the opener last year (they just cost a lot more this time), and it was really kind of a once-in-a-lifetime (or at least once in a decade) environment. After the first pick six, it just felt like Iowa was going to beat nearly any team put in front of them yesterday.

That spot was utter trash

I'm not saying OSU isn't good, and I'm not arguing their play design; I'm just saying Minnesota's defense also looked pretty bad.

Worst call ever; utterly disgraceful.

And poor defense.

That is targeting.

They have speed, but nobody was even near him on that catch. I think at least three of their long touchdown catches were to receivers who didn't have a defender anywhere near them.

Minnesota's defense is not good.

I think the best chance of beating OSU is to constantly attack their secondary. It looks like it's still their biggest "weakness" on defense.

I typed that literally as that fumble happened. I just mean I'm not a PJ Fleck fan, so wouldn't mind seeing him get blown out, and I'm never turning down watching Ohio State lose, either.