Indiana University opens their 139th season of football with 3rd ranked Ohio State in town
The Indiana Hoosiers open their 139th season Football Saturday Afternoon at Memorial Stadium when the #3 Ohio State Buckeyes pay a visit for a 3:30pm matchup and the game will be televised on CBS. Indiana will face a ranked opponent for the third time in four years and the second time that has occurred at Memorial Stadium for a season opener. This is year number seven for Indiana Head Coach Tom Allen who is 30-40 overall and 17-35 in Big Ten matchups. This will be the fourth time in his seven seasons that he has faced a Big Ten Opponent and the third season in a row. The Hoosiers lost to Ohio State in 2017 and Iowa in 2021 and beat Illinois last year at home.
Indiana is 13-1 in home openers since 2002 with the only loss coming in 2017 to Ohio State on a Thursday Night. This will be the sixth time that these two teams have met in the season opener with the Buckeyes winning all five previous matchups. The first four came in Columbus in 1938, 1952, 1953 and 1954. This will be the 97th all time meeting and 32nd in Bloomington dating back to when the series began in 1901. Ohio State dominates the series leading 79-12-5 and are 28-2-1 all time in Bloomington. Indiana will be looking to snap a 28-game losing streak to the Buckeyes that dates back to 1991. The teams played to a 27-27 tie in 1990 at Memorial Stadium. Ohio State made their first trip to Bloomington in 1914 and the Buckeye faithful travels in full force for this game.
Indiana last beat Ohio State 41-7 in 1988 at Memorial Stadium which has been referred to by Ohio State Fans as “The darkest day”. The Hoosiers last won in Columbus in 1987 31-10 which was the only season the Hoosiers have beaten both Ohio State and Michigan in the same season. Indiana has only beaten Ohio State one other time in Bloomington and that was in 1904 with an 8-0 win. Indiana won five out of the first six meetings in the series with wins in 1901, 1903, 1905 and 1913. The teams played to a tie in 1902, 1929, 1932 and 1959. Indiana won in Columbus in 1901, 1905, 1913, 1924, 1937, 1943, 1947 and 1951 with the 1903 matchup held in Champaign Illinois.
Indiana finished 4-8 a season ago and 2-7 in the Big Ten East. The Hoosiers have revamped their roster brining in 24 transfer and a total of 32 scholarship newcomers. Indiana returns just two everyday starters on defense and will have a new signal caller on offense. Connor Baezlak and Jack Tuttle transferred out, Dexter Williams II tore is ACL and is not 100% yet for this season and Donaven McCulley who completed one pass a season ago has been moved to Wide Receiver. The starter for this season has not been named and will come down to Brendan Sorsby who was 3-6 passing for 8 yards and interception a season ago and Tayven Jackson who is a transfer from Tennessee and the younger brother of former IU Men’s Basketball player Trayce Jackson-Davis. Jackson is the 2021 Indiana Mr. Football winner from Center Grove HS. He played in Three games at Tennessee in 2022 and completed three passes for 37 yards and rushed three times for 10 yards and a touchdown.
Ohio State is coached by Ryan Day in his fifth full season as head coach. Day was 3-0 in the 2018 season when Urban Meyer was suspended for the first three games of the season. Day is 45-6 overall and 31-2 in the Big Ten with Four Bowl Appearances. Ohio State started 11-0 last year before losing at home to Michigan 45-23 and the College Football Playoff Semifinal at the Peach Bowl to Georgia 42-41. Junior Kyle McCord will start for Ohio State at Quarterback on Saturday. McCord is a 6-3 215-pound Junior from Mt. Laurel New Jersey who went 16-20 for 190 yards passing with a touchdown pass and no interceptions a season ago while backing up C.J. Stroud who was drafted second overall by the Houston Texans in the 2023 NFL Draft. McCord was 25-38 for 416 yards passing his freshman year with 2 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. The Buckeyes return their top Wide Receivers in Marvin Harrison Jr. and Emeka Egbuka who are both Juniors and expected to play on Sundays very soon. Harrison Jr is the son of Former Indianapolis Colt Marvin Harrison. The 6-4 205 pounder caught 77 passes for 1,263 yards and 14 touchdowns. Egbuka 6-1 206 pounds from Washington State caught 74 passes for 1,151 yards and 10 touchdowns. Ohio State’s running backs ran the ball 466 times for 2, 501 yards and 30 touchdowns. Ohio State beat Indiana 56-14 on November 12, 2022, in Columbus.
#3 Indiana University Men’s Soccer hosts #9 Washington in the Addias/IU Credit Union Classic
A top-10 matchup is set for tonight in Bloomington. No. 3-ranked Indiana men’s soccer (1-0-1) hosts No. 9 Washington (1-1-0) at 8pm on Jerry Yeagley Field at Bill Armstrong Stadium in the second match of the adidas/IU Credit Union Classic. Ohio State will play Seton Hall in the first contest of the invitational at 5pm. IU’s match is its first of five scheduled contests to be televised on the Big Ten Network. The match can also be streamed on foxsports.com. Fans who bring their ticket for Saturday’s IU football game versus Ohio State may purchase a ticket to tonight’s match for just $5. IU students, faculty and staff get in free with a valid Crimson Card.
Indiana and Washington are ranked in all three polls (United Soccer Coaches, Top Drawer Soccer, College Soccer News). IU is ranked as high as No. 3 (TDS, CSN) and the Huskies come in rated as well as No. 9 (TDS). IU head coach Todd Yeagley and Washington’s Jamie Clark are two of four active Division-I men’s soccer head coaches with at least 175 wins since 2010 – Yeagley’s first season leading the Hoosiers. Yeagley’s 179 wins are tied for the most in that span, and no coach has led his program to more NCAA College Cups (5) since 2010. The Hoosiers are coming off a 2-0 win over DePaul in which they outshot the Blue Demons 31-1. Freshman forward Collins Oduro scored for a second straight match before senior midfielder Quinten Helmer sealed it with IU’s second goal. Indiana owns a 355-70-52 record all-time at “The Bill.” The Hoosiers have shut out opponents in each of their last four home matches going back to the 2022 NCAA Tournament. IU earned an 8-4-1 record against ranked opponents in its 2022 national runner-up season. Washington is Indiana’s first ranked test of the 2023 campaign.
Washington is 1-1-0. The Huskies defeated South Florida 2-0 on opening day before falling to San Diego by the same score on Sunday. The Huskies are led by 16th-year head coach Jamie Clark, who has compiled a 162-55-25 record at Washington. Washington returned 27 players from its 2022 team, including All-Pac-12 selections Nate Jones, Kalani Kossa-Rienzi, Chris Meyers, Imanol Rosales and Christian Soto. The Huskies have earned NCAA Tournament berths in each of the last seven seasons. Indiana owns the advantage in the all-time series with a 4-1-0 record against the Huskies. The programs last met in the 2021 NCAA Tournament Round of 16, a thriller that ended in a 3-2, overtime victory for the hosting Huskies. Indiana had previously eliminated Washington from the tournament three times; in 1992, in 1999 on the way to NCAA title No. 5 and in 2000. Tonight’s matchup marks just the second time the teams have met in the regular season. It last happened in 2001, a 1-0 win for the Hoosiers that was played in Portland, Oregon. Indiana Head Coach Todd Yeagley participated in the first-ever matchup. IU defeated Washington 2-0 in the NCAA Tournament Second Round.
All 3 Monroe County Teams hit the road tonight for Week 3 of High School Football
All Three Monroe County High School Football teams will be on the road tonight for Week 3 of the High School Football season. Edgewood will be travelling to Cascade as both Bloomington North and Bloomington South will be traveling to Terre Haute. Bloomington North will face Terre Haute South, and Bloomington South will face Terre Haute North. Edgewood and Bloomington North will kick at 7pm with Bloomington South kicking off at 7:30pm. WCGL 98.7 FM and AM/1370 will have radio coverage of Bloomington North while WVNI 95.1 FM has the Bloomington South game.
Bloomington South is 2-0 after a 35-6 win over Martinsville last Friday Night. The Panthers who hit the road for the first time this season are averaging 40 points per game while giving just 8 points per game on defense. Panther Quarterback Jarrin Alley is 31-40 passing for 424 yards and 6 touchdowns and no interceptions. Running Back Gavin Adams has 31 carries for 161 yards and 2 touchdowns while Ben Morrison has 8 carries for 63 yards and a touchdown. Lucas Waldon leads the Panther Receivers with 9 receptions for 162 yards and 3 touchdowns while D’Andre Black has 8 catches for 118 yards and 2 touchdowns. Terre Haute North is 0-2 under first year coach Michael Ghant after a 48-16 loss at home to Northview and a 38-10 loss on the road to Indianapolis Attucks. Bloomington South has won the last ten regular season matchups with the Patriots and 12 overall after beating Terre Haute North in 2015 and 2016 Sectional Championship games. The Last time Terre Haute North beat Bloomington South was October 4, 2013 51-47 in Bloomington.
Bloomington North is 2-0 after a 21-14 home win against Bedford North Lawrence last Friday Night. Like their rivals on the southside of Bloomington the Cougars will be making its first road trip of the season averaging 27.5 points per game on offense and giving up 21.5 points on defense. Quarterback Dash King is 31-49 passing for 370 yards with 5 touchdowns and 2 interceptions. Running Back Kijuan Hayes has 25 carries for 150 yards but has not found the end zone while Brayden Johnson has 11 carries for 56 yards and 1 touchdown. Cole Grupehnoff has 10 receptions for 96 yards and a touchdown. Tate Bless has 9 catches for 106 yards and a touchdown while Marshall University Commit Adian Steinfeldt has 8 catches for 75 yards and 2 touchdowns. Terre Haute South is 0-2 for 11th year head coach Tim Herrin. The Braves lost to Plainfield 32-13 at home and Floyd Central 34-33 last Saturday in a game that was played at Bedford North Lawrence HS. Terre Haute South beat Bloomington North 34-20 on September 2, 2022 and the Cougars won at Terre Haute South 35-8 on September 3, 2021.
Edgewood is looking to bounce back after a 28-0 loss at Washington last Saturday night. The Mustangs are averaging 20.5 points on offense and giving up 27.5 points on defense under first year head coach Scott Fischer. Quarterback Grant Coffey is 3-10 passing for 53 yards with no touchdowns or interceptions. Running Back Gabe Drew has carried the ball 34 times for 372 yards and 3 touchdowns that all came against Mitchell in week 1. Coffey has run the ball 22 times for 59 yards and 2 touchdowns and Gunner Caswell has run the ball 11 times for 46 yards. Cascade is 1-1 after a 35-13 win at Beech Grove last week. The Cadets lost at home to Triton Central 41-13 in week 1 and average 24 points on offense while giving up 27 points on defense. This is the first meeting between the two teams since October 5, 2018, when Edgewood beat Cascade 34-7 at Edgewood. Edgewood’s last trip to Cascade was October 6, 2017, when the Mustangs won 40-35.
Indiana University Cross Country opens 2023 season at Miami Redhawk Rumble
Indiana cross country travels to Miami (Ohio) to open up the 2023 season at the Redhawk Rumble this morning. This is the first of four regular season meets. The Hoosiers will have eight men and 10 women represented on the course. The men’s squad has six returners with five from the women’s side. Freshmen Grace Tyson, Bloomington South Graduate Lilly Myers, Jasmine Klopstad and transfer Andi VanMeter are making their collegiate debuts along with transfer Nolan Satterfield on the men’s side. This Morning’s races are set for 9:30 a.m. (Men’s 8K) and a 10:10 a.m. (Women’s 5K).
Indiana University Women’s Basketball announces home and home series with Stanford
Coach Teri Moren and the Indiana Hoosiers are never one to shy away from a challenge. On Thursday, the team announced a home-and-home series with perennial powerhouse Stanford, led by the all-time winningest coach in the history of women’s college basketball, Tara VanDerveer. VanDerveer is herself a former Hoosier, playing for the Indiana women’s basketball team from 1972-75 under coach Bea Gorton.
The first matchup will take place in Palo Alto this season on Nov. 12, as Moren and the Hoosiers visit the Cardinal in an early season clash between two national title contenders. VanDerveer and Stanford will return the favor in the 2024-25 season when they fly to Bloomington and play at Assembly Hall. Indiana already had an early season bout against a top tier women’s basketball team scheduled for 2023-24, as the Hoosiers will take on the Tennessee Volunteers in the Fort Myers Tip-Off on Thanksgiving Day. This is just another feather in their cap for what has grown into an impressive non-conference schedule for the upcoming season.
IU was ranked No. 5 overall in the country by ESPN’s Charlie Creme in his “Way-Too-Early Top 25” for the 2023-24 women’s college basketball season. Stanford is ranked No. 9 overall, and Tennessee clocked in at No. 11. Despite Moren’s Hoosiers being ranked ahead of the Cardinal, hardly anyone has had as much success as VanDerveer has in Palo Alto during her coaching tenure. She’s coached every Stanford women’s basketball team since the 1985, except for the 1995-96 Cardinal. That year, VanDerveer was busy coaching the USA Basketball National Team to a 52-0 exhibition record, and a subsequent 8-0 record and gold medal at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. VanDerveer has also won three championships at Stanford, in 1989, 1992 and 2021.
On the court, Indiana and Stanford have only ever faced each other three times, with Stanford leading the all-time series 2-1. The last meeting took place in November of the 2021-22 season in the Baha Mar Hoops Nassau Championship in the Bahamas. Stanford emerged with a narrow 69-66 victory in that game behind 21 points from Cameron Brink. The only current Indiana players to have played in that matchup from ’21 are Mackenzie Holmes and Chloe Moore-McNeil. Stanford also beat Indiana back in the 2001-02 season, with the game taking place in Palo Alto. Indiana’s lone victory over Stanford in the series’ history took place in Chapel Hill, when IU beat Stanford in the 1979 North Carolina Christmas Classic by a score of 73-63. The two teams have never played at Assembly Hall, making Stanford’s scheduled trip to Bloomington in 2024 even more anticipated than it already will be.
Eight Former Indiana University Football players make NFL Opening Day Rosters
The deadline for NFL teams to finalize their 53-man rosters for the 2023 season was on Tuesday, Aug. 29, at 4 p.m. ET. While Indiana is not the most prominent football factory in the country, there are still a number of Hoosiers who made the cut and will be playing on the sport’s biggest stage this next year. Unfortunately, there were also plenty of former Indiana football players who were released from their respective teams this week, many of whom were undrafted free agents signed fresh out of IU following the 2022 season.
Here’s a look at where each former Indiana football player has ended up following the NFL’s 53-man roster cuts for the 2023 season:
- Active Roster- Cam Jones, LB — Kansas City Chiefs, Micah McFadden, LB — New York Giants, Dan Feeney, OL — Chicago Bears, Caleb Jones, OL — Green Bay Packers, Raheem Layne, SAF — Los Angeles Chargers, Peyton Hendershot, TE — Dallas Cowboys, Ian Thomas, TE — Carolina Panthers and Nick Westbrook-Ikhine, WR — Tennessee Titans.
- Injured Reserve- Nate Sudfeld, QB — Detroit Lions (Sudfeld tore his ACL during a preseason game and is not on the Lions’ 53-man roster but has been placed on the team’s Injured Reserve list). Waived/Not on an NFL Roster- Stevie Scott III, RB — Waived by Arizona Cardinals, Ty Fryfogle, WR — Waived by Kansas City Chiefs, Jaylin Williams, CB — Waived by Minnesota Vikings, Tiawan Mullen, CB — Waived by Los Angeles Chargers, Luke Haggard, OL — Waived by Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Ryder Anderson, DL — Waived by New York Giants and Demarcus Elliott, DT — Signed as UDFA with Chiefs, No longer on the Team. However, of that group, several have been signed to NFL practice squads, despite not making a team’s 53-man roster.
Here are former Indiana football players that have been reportedly signed to practice squads following the Tuesday deadline: Tiawan Mullen — Philadelphia Eagles practice squad, Jaylin Williams — Minnesota Vikings practice squad, Luke Haggard — Tampa Bay Buccaneers practice squad, Ryder Anderson — New York Giants practice squad and Marcelino McCray-Ball—New York Jets Practice Squad. The big news is that former first team All-American Tiawan Mullen was signed by the Philadelphia Eagles as a practice squad player. While Williams, Haggard and Anderson are simply staying put in the cities where they just barely missed out on making the 53-man cut, Mullen is traveling across the country to join the practice squad of the defending NFC champions. Philadelphia does have a deep cornerback room already, having kept seven players at the position on its 53-man roster. It would likely take an injury, trade or significant decline in play from one of Darius Slay, James Bradberry, Avonte Maddox, Kelee Ringo, Josh Jobe, Eli Ricks or Mario Goodrich for Mullen to see the field for the Eagles in 2023. But stranger things of happened, and after getting waived by the Chargers on Tuesday, it’s great to see that the former Indiana cornerback still has a home in the NFL for the time being.
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