Sorry, CFB. Indiana isn’t going anywhere.
Did you see that bloodbath in Memorial Stadium? Curt Cignetti's bunch is back for more after upsetting the hierarchy last season.
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Now it was their turn to give everyone else a taste of their own medicine, their turn to wear the big-boy pants and tell anyone who dared doubt them that they indeed are for real, that they’re not going anywhere, and that if you don’t like it, you’re more than welcome to bring your own damn football over here and find out for yourself just what it is you have been missing out on.
The visitors were punting, the first half still had nearly five full minutes to go, but hell, these these red-clan fans could not wait to blurt out the words that followed them these past 12 months, into an offseason in which the whole sport seemed to lose its mind at times over them.
“OVER-RATED!” the chants came from the Indiana faithful as Illinois punted for the sixth time of the half.
“OVER-RATED!”
As that meme from The Office meme goes: “Well, well, well. How the turntables.”
How ‘bout them Hoosiers, huh?
Never daunted, and, based on the early returns of this encore act, never haunted, either.
The final score was 63-10. The final 30 minutes were a mere formality. This was a 7-7 game six minutes in and, poof, just like that, it was 35-7 Indiana.