USC vs. Indiana Football Preview: Hoosiers Face Tough Test

How about this ball game, SC and Indiana, boy? Man, I'll tell you, the Indiana Hoosiers this year have kind of wobbled a little bit, and I can't get a read on USC. They got a big game at the end of the year, obviously, with UCLA. What says you in this one? So, USC are off a bye because they have tried very hard to... They've tried very, very hard to give themselves a fighting chance in these trips east, right? Indiana, though, are really kind of the entire breakdown. It's almost irrelevant what anybody thinks of USC. I don't know how good this Hoosiers team is. Cignetti, I'm not, Cignetti is like all upset about his ranking, and I'm not sure why. They played Ohio State. They lost. They barely beat Minnesota. They barely beat Michigan. They barely beat Nebraska. They barely beat Northwestern. I don't understand what this guy wants. I don't understand where he wants to be ranked. It's just, and he can absolutely, you know, truth serum, be like, well, it's because my quarterbacks hurt. Yo, brother, guess what? Ohio State are going to miss the playoffs because their quarterbacks hurt. So I don't know what you want me to tell you, and I don't know what to do with this Indiana team because college football, you can lie a lot more than you can in the NFL. So in college football, you can send Hoover out there, and we're all like, oh, I guess Hoover's healthy. And then it's halftime, and we're like, I think they need to switch quarterbacks. I lean USC with all these points, because I'm not sure this is a, I'm not sure this is like a functioning Indiana offense. I want to ask you about their scheduling and how much he complains about where he's ranked. Well, dude, you want to be ranked higher? Stop playing those awful schools at the beginning of the season. But yet there's a method to his madness, Kevin. What's the incentive of me if I'm Ohio State to go play Texas? If I'm going to get hurt in the rankings or if I'm going to play an out-of-conference game where I can play some dog crap football games against some teams like Helen Keller University or nobody you, and I can put them at the top of my schedule and still make it to the college playoff, what's the incentive for these schools to go forward and play out-of-conference? So I do think in a 2014 playoff, you have more breathing room. Now, there might be schools who go the other direction. Forget breathing room. I now just have to not lose games, and I'll make it in. If I'm 9-3 and I play in one of these power conferences, I'm going to get in. And maybe we don't see these games. We saw Florida cancel a home-and-home with Notre Dame. I do think that those schools should be shamed, in my honest opinion. And that's not because I'm a Notre Dame guy. You're the Florida Gators. You're the Florida Gators, and you're running scared of Notre Dame? Are you kidding? Are you? Are you kidding me? That's embarrassing. Like, Cignetti, I could give a break because there was a while that... It's not all that long ago where Indiana came into a season, and their only wins were the games against Howard and North Texas and Western Kentucky. But they asked him in the offseason, they're like, hey, everything about playing Notre Dame? And he's like, yeah, but they have to play two... They have to come here both times because they're not in a conference. And I told Indiana fans, you better hope... You better hope Notre Dame's never on that schedule because I promise you he's gone to the NFL by the time those games come up. They put Notre Dame on the Indiana schedule in 2031. He's coaching the Pittsburgh Steelers in 2031. He's not coaching the Indiana Hoosiers.