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Quarterback Michael Penix has already undergone season-ending surgery and will be without the team for the remainder of 2019. Matt and Grif discuss the implications and what a Peyton Ramsey-led offense will look like for Indiana’s last four games this year. Plus, with Tuesday’s College Football Playoff rankings release, Indiana,…
Noise makers were set up along the wall of the IU team room. The players sat down in their black chairs embroidered with a red IU trident logo, preparing for a team meeting. As they did, head coach Tom Allen turned on the speakers. The noise blared and as Allen…
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Reese Taylor was in his zone inside the hashmark nearest IU’s sideline. He saw Maryland wide receiver Sean Savoy running a vertical route down field, the man he was supposed to focus on. “I see the ball in the air, I just had to go make…
Fans hadn’t even finished filing into their seats. With just over 12 minutes to play in the first quarter against Rutgers, IU fans trickled across 17th Street and into the stadium. They came up the ramps and into the bleacher seats, the student section slowly beginning to fill past the…
Michael Penix has only played in two and a half games this season. Yet he enters Saturday’s Homecoming game against Rutgers just 191 yards short of 1,000 for the season. He eclipsed 1,000 career passing yards in the loss to Michigan State and he’s been named Big Ten Freshman of…
Tom Allen doesn’t often get to watch football on Saturday. But once he returned from his recruiting trips on Thursday and Friday, Allen got to sit in front of his TV and watch, taking advantage of his bye week. “I was going back and forth with several,” Allen said. “Had…
EAST LANSING, Mich. — There were tears in the locker room, and Hoosiers head coach Tom Allen said there should have been. “It’s hard to face them in the locker room knowing how hard they played, look ’em in the eye,” Allen said. While IU was close yet again, it…
It took one throw for Stevie Scott to know Michael Penix was ready to be the starting quarterback. Scott was running a wheel route down the sideline and as he looked up, he saw the ball coming, a rare deep ball for the Hoosiers’ bruising starting running back. It was…
The three-man battle for the Indiana quarterback job has been at the forefront of offseason discussion around the program from the moment Jack Tuttle stepped on campus in January. It’s a competition that puts IU in the same position it was this same time a year ago: three options all…
MIAMI — Tom Allen didn’t have an exact plan for how Indiana would utilize its two quarterbacks in its season-opening 38-28 win against Florida International. He knew his options, their tendencies, and the fact that he wanted both to play. But he didn’t know when, or how. “Here’s the thing,”…