The Indiana football team made a noble run at upsetting #2 Ohio State last night in Bloomington. The Hoosiers outplayed the Buckeyes in the first half and led 21-20 into the third quarter. Raw talent took over and the final ended up 49-21. That leaves Indiana to ask the question of how good they can […]
Football was—and is–second fiddle to basketball in the state Indiana, especially in the days before Peyton Manning came to the state and most especially for loyalists of Indiana University. But the 1987 Indiana football team was an improving program under Bill Mallory. One year earlier they had made their first bowl game since the 1967 Rose Bowl and 1987 saw them be a reliable supporting actor to the basketball program that had won a national title in March.
These are relatively high times in the world of Indiana sports, at both the college and pro level. The Colts, who play tonight at Tennessee (8:25 PM ET, NFL) are a Super Bowl contender, in spite of an awful performance last week against the St. Louis Rams. The Pacers are undefeated out of the gate in the NBA, and both the Indiana University basketball and football teams are competitive after spending years (or in the football team’s case, decades) in irrelevancy.