I believe Army and Navy could actually play three games. The week before their regular game they may meet in the conference finals. And then as you mentioned in the playoffs.
It is already looking like Army and Navy will play in the AAC championship game, then their regular season game the following week.
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Sorry, I posted today after reading Johnny’s post before I saw that you already made the point.
What could be wild is that both have a good loss to Notre Dame. Then one beats the other in the championship game to finish with one loss. The committee will 100% find a rationale to put a one loss academy into the playoff over a one loss Boise. Then that team loses the next week to the two loss other academy. You’ll have Boise (with the Heisman winner) being passed over for a two loss team.
This has been noted before, but the Scarecats are now 5-2 and having a reasonably good season thus far…NW not so much.
Not sure what that tells us about our team, but regardless, Brett now playing much better and getting some help from his receivers. Also nice to see a few big running plays bust out…Mozee may be ineffective inside but when he gets through the line untouched he can an really turn on the jets.
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The stinkin’ Bearcats actually should be 6-1. They puked up the game with Pitt in the last few minutes. And Pitt’s currently undefeated. We were only 8 points down to UC with a minute to play.
I hope Deion beats them by a million. And maybe let’s the backup QB come in for a series or two!
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Who’s to say they both lose to notre dame
Could very well happen. If so, then that’s the only path that I see for both getting in at 12-0 and 11-1, and I think it would happen.
I hope Deion gets herpes from a mountain goat
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Fan behavior observation: Clicked on the replay of the Indiana- Nebraska game. With 13 minutes left it is 49-7 IU. There doesn’t seem to be an empty seat in Memorial Stadium.
Nebraska fans have long had a reputation as the best. I’m sure that nothing was thrown on the field and there very little to no harassment of IU fans. Never been to a game there, but I’ve been told that they are adamant about policing their own if they see something.
I think the game was at Indiana’s Memorial Stadium and they are having the best season in history
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They did win the Big Ten and play in the Rose Bowl back in the mid 60’s under the National Coach of the Year Johnny Pont ( That’s why he has a statue in the Cradle of Coaches).
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That 1967 team was Big 10 champs and top 10 ranked so you are right
But in reality they were very lucky that year. They avoided Ohio State. They only beat two teams by more than 7 points all year
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The ‘67 OSU team was 6-3 with two of the losses coming at home to losing teams (Arizona and Illinois), so it’s not like the Buckeyes were dominant that year.
Thats true. My guess is it would have been close. In 1966 Miami beat Indiana 20-10 as they were 1-8-1
By 1968 Indiana was 4-3 in the Big 10
And 6-4 overall
By 1969 they were under 500
It was a miracle year
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Yes. Saturday’s game was in Bloomington The stadium did begin to show signs of empty seats at about the 5 minute mark of the fourth quarter.
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I was an original Transfer Portal baby.
Because of a desire to play in a big time college band, I started college at UK in the fall of 1967. The first of two road trips for the Wildcat Marching Band was to Bloomington to open the season. UK lost 16-14, IU scored late to win it, igniting the magical Rose Bowl season at IU.
While there, I was highly impressed with Indiana’s campus and the Marching Hundred. Our other road trip was to Vanderbilt - and we stayed at a hotel on Printers Alley.
During the spring of 1968, I started to realize UK was not a good fit for me. The boys from Kappa Alpha Order, dressed in Confederate officer uniforms, rode their rented horses around campus delivering invitations to their spring ball and there was a local outcry when the student newspaper suggested the band ought to discontinue playing Dixie. The tipping point is when cheers went up in the open air quad at my dorm - old Hagen Hall - when an announcement came over the PA system that MLK, Jr. had been shot and killed. That was the proverbial straw that broke the camel’s back. I decided to transfer to IU.
After auditioning for Dr Bob Glidden, IU’s assistant director of bands, I was accepted to the Marching Hundred and the transfer application process was expedited. i enrolled at IU in September and moved into the fraternity house at 316 N Jordan. Our housemother was Coach John Pont’s mother-in-law.
Ironically, Bob Glidden eventually became the President of Ohio University!
IU’s ‘67 Rose Bowl team was known as the Cardiac Kids because of their propensity for late game drama. The offensive studs of the Rose Bowl team were QB Harry Gonso, RB John Isenbarger and TE Jade Butcher. They were all still there in ‘68.
Although I’d missed the Rose Bowl year, I enjoyed IU and playing in the band. We made road trips to Wisconsin and to Purdue. We played Baylor, Arizona, Michigan, Minnesota, and Illinois at home. The band recorded an album that can still be found online!
But 1968-69 was rife with student unrest. The Indiana Governor at the time convinced the state legislature that most of the unrest was being caused by out of state agitators. They raised out of state tuition for the next school in draconian fashion. My dad and I were paying my college costs out of pocket and couldn’t afford a doubling of my out of state tuition. I decided to come home to Ohio to pay in-state tuition and applied at Miami, where I’d first played in band days for three seasons on Miami Field as a Centerville Elks Band member.
I contacted Miami band director Nick Poccia, transferred to Oxford and played in the Miami Marching Band in 1969-70. We made road trips to BG - where our undefeated squad lost to the Falcons 3-0 - and to UC, where we beat the Bearcats 36-20. The team finished 7-3 in both 1969 and 1970.
I’ve been a loyal Redskin turned RedHawk ever since I enrolled at Miami. The university I graduated from is my alma mater. Love & Honor.
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Great story
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