Indiana's Strategy Against Michigan and Ohio State

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00:00I want to start with them because they're playing at 8 and 0 and they're playing in

00:07East Lansing and Rourke is allegedly back.

00:12They're a great quarterback.

00:13I thought Tavon Jackson did a hell of a job.

00:18You know, Tracy's little brother did a hell of a job last week against Washington.

00:22Can they win this game on the road and then handle Michigan in Bloomington to set up a

00:29behemoth game at the Horseshoe in Columbus against the Buckeyes?

00:34You know, first, isn't it wonderful to drink in celebration for a Hoosier victory instead

00:39of drown our sorrows with rum out of a candy-striped tumbler?

00:43My goodness.

00:44And how long has it been since we've been able to do that?

00:47Indiana's going to win on Saturday.

00:50They are a really well-coached team.

00:52That defense is so fundamentally sound.

00:54They don't blow assignments.

00:56They make every tackle.

00:58The offense, it hums along whether Rourke is a quarterback.

01:01He would be the preferable guy and he's going to start.

01:04Tavon Jackson, I think, did fine work, but it's an offensive line.

01:08It's the running game, Justice Ellison.

01:10They got good receivers and it's Kurt Cignetti.

01:14Kurt Cignetti has imbued this team with a fundamental level of football that we've never

01:19seen in Bloomington.

01:21So we're starting to talk like fans of a program that matters, and we're starting to walk with

01:27some swag and some arrogance.

01:29And that's really foreign to me to talk about Indiana going to East Lansing and just kind

01:34of saying, yeah, of course they're going to win, and then they're going to beat Michigan

01:37down in Bloomington, and we're going to go to Columbus.

01:40I'm getting on a bus going to Columbus, and I'm going to celebrate in Columbus when they

01:43beat Ohio State.

01:45We don't talk like that very often.