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How To Watch Indiana Football Week 11 Game Against Michigan
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – Michigan football is a case study in why it’s so important to have stability at the quarterback position.
The Wolverines are currently enduring a 5-4 season and have lost three of their last four games. A major reason for the Wolverines’ woes are a revolving door at the quarterback spot.
Davis Warren, Alex Orji and (departed) Jack Tuttle have all received playing time and the results have been mediocre for the Wolverines. They’ve combined for 1,209 yards, 10 touchdowns and 9 interceptions.
Their struggles have a cascading effect on the rest of the offense. While Kalel Mullings (710 yards, 5.4 per carry) and Donovan Edwards (467 yards, 4.7 per carry) haven’t had bad seasons, they would be more effective with a better passing game.
It’s no accident that Michigan was 40-3 from 2021-23 because it had stability at the quarterback spot. Cade McNamara (now at Iowa) and J.J. McCarthy held down the role and both of them thrived.
Warren is likely to get the start today against Indiana. For Michigan to be competitive, it needs to get stability from the quarterback position. With Indiana’s defense putting good pressure on enemy quarterbacks? This won’t be an easy task.
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How to watch Indiana vs. Michigan
• Who: Indiana Hoosiers (9-0, 6-0) vs. Michigan Wolverines (5-4, 3-3)
• What: Indiana, ranked No. 8 in the College Football Playoff rankings will be trying to maintain their unbeaten record and their spot in the CFP. Michigan will train to attain bowl eligibility with a victory.
• When: 3:30 p.m. ET on Saturday, Nov. 9.
• Where: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind.
• TV: CBS.
• Announcers: Brad Nessler (play-by-play), Gary Danielson (analyst), Jenny Dell (sideline).
• Radio: Indiana Hoosiers Sports Network, Sirius XM (channel 119 or 195)
• Radio Announcers: Don Fischer (play-by-play), Buck Suhr (analyst), John Herrick
• Point spread: Indiana is a 14.5-point favorite and the over/under is 53.5 points, according to the FanDuel Sportsbook.
• Recent results: Indiana defeated Michigan State 47-10 and Michigan lost 38-17 to No. 1 Oregon last week.
• Series history: Michigan leads 62-10. Indiana last won in the series in 2020. It’s the only win for the Hoosiers in the series since 1987.
• Quarterback matchup: After a one-game absence due to a thumb injury, Kurtis Rourke returned to the starting role for the Hoosiers and thrived against Michigan State. He completed 19 of 29 passes for 263 yards and 4 touchdown passes. For the season, Rourke has completed 73.3% of his passes for 2,204 yards, 19 touchdowns and just 3 interceptions.
Michigan has had a revolving door at its quarterback spot, with three different signal-callers seeing action, including former Indiana player Jack Tuttle, who has since left the Wolverines. Alex Orji and Davis Warren have also made starts this season.
Warren was back in the starting role in Michigan’s loss to Oregon last week and will likely start against Indiana. The senior completed 13 of 23 passes for 165 yards and 2 touchdowns against the Ducks.
• Weather: According to weather.com, it’s going to be 62 degrees and cloudy with a 2% chance of rain and an east-southeast wind at 8 miles per hour at 3 p.m. in Bloomington.
Meet the Coaches
• Sherrone Moore, Michigan: Moore is in his first year at Michigan and he has a 5-4 record. This is the first head coaching job for Moore, who played two seasons as an offensive lineman at Oklahoma. Before he was named head coach, he was on Jim Harbaugh’s Michigan staff as offensive line and offensive coordinator from 2021-23. Moore was co-offensive coordinator from 2021-22. From 2018-20, Moore was Michigan’s tight ends coach. Before he came to Michigan, Moore spent time at Central Michigan as tight ends coach (2014-17) and as assistant head coach (2017). The rest of Moore’s coaching career was spent at Louisville (2009-13) where he started as a graduate assistant and later became the tight ends coach.
• Curt Cignetti, Indiana: Cignetti, 9-0 at Indiana, enters his first season at Indiana after a five-year run at James Madison with a 52-9 overall record. During his first three seasons at James Madison, the Dukes reached the FCS national championship once and the semifinals twice. After moving up to the FBS, they went 19-4 under Cignetti. Prior to JMU, he had a 14-9 record in two seasons at Elon and a 53-17 record in six seasons at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. Before becoming a head coach, he was the wide receivers coach and recruiting coordinator at Alabama under Nick Saban from 2007-10 and held various assistant coaching positions at NC State from 2000-06. Other previous stops include Pittsburgh, Temple, Rice and Davidson. Cignetti played quarterback at West Virginia from 1979-82. His father, Frank, is in the College Football Hall of Fame.
Indiana basketball practice observations from June 25: Freshmen mixing in
IU has a game-changer, Thursday’s practice open to the media showed. IndyStar IU insider Zach Osterman explains what he saw.
BLOOMINGTON — Whatever he can.
That’s the answer. The question — one prompted by an urgency to add strength to his game — is what Vaughn Karvala, Indiana basketball’s athletic freshman wing, is doing to add weight. IU’s highest-ranked signee in the 2026 class, it’s not hard to envision a role for Karvala in Darian DeVries’ second season in Bloomington. The player himself knows that starts with meeting the physical demands of the college game.
Which starts with building onto to his 6-foot-7, 190-pound frame.
“The biggest thing for me is just putting on weight,” Karvala told reporters after practice Thursday. “That’s my biggest thing, getting stronger, trying to play with these guys that are three, four years older than me. I have to get stronger, I have to get faster, everything.”
A three-year letter winner at Oregon (Wisconsin) High School, Karvala spent his senior season at Bella Vista Prep in Arizona, bolstering a profile that saw him ranked No. 62 nationally per the 247Sports Composite.
Karvala averaged 26.5 points and 9.5 rebounds per game in his final season with Oregon, shooting close to 42% from behind the 3-point line. He averaged another 14.7 points per game with Team Herro on the EYBL circuit.
He handed DeVries a major recruiting win last fall, when Karvala picked the Hoosiers over Xavier and Cal. Now, both at the rim and behind the arc, Karvala looks like a player who can contribute meaningfully in his first year in college.
“I know my athleticism catches the eye, but I can still shoot it,” Karvala said. “But another thing is just working on rebounding, trying to get extra possessions for us.”
Whether on the glass or elsewhere, embracing the physical challenge of college basketball has been an emphasis for Karvala since he arrived in Bloomington earlier this summer.
That manifests itself offensively, when he tries to push the ball downhill and leverage that athleticism to attack the rim. It shows up defensively, where Karvala said he’s comfortable guarding the two, the three and, matchup depending, the four.
It even plays out on the glass, battling bigs up to including 7-2 teammate Samet Yigitoglu, who Karvala described with a smile as “the biggest guy I’ve ever seen.”
“Physicality, 100%,” Karvala said, when asked where he’s challenging himself. “Just playing with all these guys that have 20, 30, 40 pounds on me.”
Which starts with the physical demand of more weight. Karvala said he’ll eat chicken, steak or “whatever we have in the locker room” that can help him in that effort. His focus, he said, is simply to “eat a lot, and work out every day.”
As that weight and strength begin to build, Karvala knows the next step — to mentally prepare for the rough-and-tumble nature of life on the floor in the Big Ten — is just as important. Preparing his body comes first. Challenging himself to toughen up once it’s required follows quickly after.
“Just getting fully there, mentally,” he said. “You’re going to have to push your body to get through this.”
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KOSCIUSKO COUNTY, Ind. (WSBT) — It’s fair season and a new law uncorks adult beverage sales!
The new Indiana law will go into effect July 1st, making it legal to sell alcohol at county fairs.
The Kosciusko County Fair is set to kick off in just a few weeks and Indiana is officially allowing alcohol to be sold.
The law is bringing back something that’s not necessarily new to this fair.
Here’s what you need to know
The new law will go into effect on July 1st. It officially allows county fairs to apply for fee-free permits to sell alcohol.
Officials with the Kosciusko County Fair say they are participating this year. They are implementing the same guidelines they used when they sold alcohol just at grandstand events.
The difference now is, you can walk around the grounds with your drink. But strict guidelines will be in place for purchasing a drink.
“Actually, we’ve never had any issues. Because we card everybody, so we take that seriously. We also got the ID guides so we can identify the different types of IDs,” said Sheal Dirck, Treasurer of Kosciusko County Fair.
The Kosciusko County Fair already have guidelines in place, so this was an easy transition for the fair.
They will be the only vendors selling alcohol, which will make it easier to control distribution.
The sales will also bring in more revenue.
“Hopefully it allows to keep our ticket prices where they are because right now, insurance, utilities and everything else is going sky high and it’s hard to make ends meet,” said Dirck.
However, some fairs cannot participate because of the July 1st start date, like the Pulaski County Fair, which is going on right now. Pulaski County officials said it is on the agenda for next year. Whereas other fairs are choosing to sit this year out.
“We wanted not spend some time to, to see what that really means for us. It was not a decision we wanted to rush into. But we are happy for the option of it,” said Shelly Steury, GM of Elkhart County 4H Fairgrounds.
Leaders at the St. Joseph County and Elkhart County Fairs said neither of them are selling alcohol.
The Kosciusko County Fair is the only fair that will sell alcohol in our area this year.
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