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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.
Michigan State narrowly escaped with a home win against the now 8–7 Northwestern Wildcats. The Spartans struggled mightily in the first half, entering the break down seven points after scoring just 28 points. Michigan State committed eight turnovers in the opening 20 minutes and went 6-of-11 from the free-throw line.
After a sluggish start, the Spartans regrouped and took control in the second half. Michigan State shot 14-of-27 from the field after halftime, playing with better pace and ball movement.
Jeremy Fears, who picked up two early fouls and began the game 0-of-4 from the field, responded with a strong second half. He finished the game shooting 4-of-7 from the field and a perfect 7-of-7 from the free-throw line.
Overall, Michigan State was far more composed in the second half against the Wildcats. However, with a matchup against Indiana looming, the Spartans will not be able to afford another slow start like the one they experienced against Northwestern.
Scouting Indiana
Indiana has undergone a similar offseason transformation to another Big Ten opponent Michigan State has already faced: the Iowa Hawkeyes. After parting ways with head coach Mike Woodson, the Hoosiers hired former West Virginia head coach Darian DeVries.
DeVries began his head coaching career at Drake, where he posted an impressive 150–55 record. Over his final four seasons with the Bulldogs, he led the program to 108 wins and three NCAA Tournament appearances.
DeVries also went 79–33 in Missouri Valley Conference play, captured three MVC titles, and guided Drake to six of the program’s 11 20-win seasons before leaving for West Virginia.
In his lone season with the Mountaineers, DeVries engineered a significant turnaround, improving West Virginia from a 10-win team to a 19-win team.
Now at Indiana, DeVries has continued that trend of rapid improvement. In Mike Woodson’s final season, the Hoosiers finished 19–13 and missed the NCAA Tournament. This season, Indiana has already reached 12 wins and appears firmly back in the postseason conversation.
The Hoosiers are led by senior guard Lamar Wilkerson, a transfer from Sam Houston. Wilkerson is averaging 19.5 points per game while shooting 46.2 percent from the field and 41.8 percent from three-point range.
Indiana has been strong on both ends of the floor. According to KenPom, the Hoosiers rank 30th nationally in offensive efficiency and 28th in defensive efficiency.
As Michigan State prepares to face Indiana, the Spartans will need to clean up their first-half execution to keep pace with one of the Big Ten’s more balanced teams. Indiana’s efficiency on both ends of the court, combined with DeVries’ proven ability to elevate programs quickly, makes this a difficult matchup. For Michigan State, a complete 40-minute performance will be essential if it hopes to build momentum in conference play.
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The Oregon Ducks’ season has ended in heartbreak for the second-straight season. They advanced farther than they did last year, reaching the College Football Playoff semifinals before they succumbed to the red-hot Indiana Hoosiers.
In the days leading up to the rematch, Oregon head coach Dan Lanning spoke about what needed to change from the last matchup, and the turnover battle was one of the things he spoke most passionately about. There is no way he can be happy after the Ducks lost the turnover battle 3-0, with each one leading to easy points for the Hoosiers.
Offensive coordinator Will Stein was asked to reflect on this aspect after the game, and he had this to say, “We just spotted these guys 21 points. You know, it’s hard to win when you turn the ball over three times in your own territory, plus a pick six.”
Oregon’s defense wasn’t great in this game either, but a lot of their struggles were the result of being asked to shut down an Indiana offense that was often set up in or near the red zone. Stein acknowledged this in his answer, telling reporters, “You don’t do anything good for your defense in that aspect. So obviously, poor job by us taking care of the ball, and it was obviously the big difference in the game.
The Hoosiers scored 28 points off Ducks turnovers, which ended up being the key difference in the 34-point loss. It also doesn’t feel farfetched to believe that Oregon would have played with much more fire if the turnovers didn’t put the game out of reach.
This game will leave a sour taste in this group’s mouth because they know things will never be the same. Stein and Tosh Lupoi are going off to lead their own teams now, along with a ton of uncertainty about which players will remain in Eugene after this loss.
The Ducks had a prime opportunity to achieve glory, but they came up just short yet again thanks to a slew of giveaways.
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ATLANTA — Indiana football quarterback Fernando Mendoza has burned teams throughout the College Football Playoff with his scrambling ability.
Mendoza was lights out through the air in a 56-22 win over Oregon in the Peach Bowl on Friday night, but he made a handful of plays with his legs again starting with a 21-yard gain early in the second quarter that helped the No. 1 Hoosiers (15-0) flip the field.
Mendoza’s sneaky athleticism has put pressure on defenses already struggling to contain IU’s impressive arsenal of skill players, but there came a time in the CFP semifinals where the coaching staff asked him to put that scrambling ability in his back pocket and keep it there.
“Coach (Chandler) Whitmer was in his ear about getting down as quickly as possible,” Indiana offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan told The Herald-Times.
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The Heisman winner had the large contingent of IU fans at Mercedes-Benz Stadium holding their breath while he was weaving through defenders and taking hits with his team up by four possessions coming out of halftime.
Mendoza lost the ball in the third quarter while getting tripped up from behind on a run up the middle after busting out a spin move on the play to gain extra yards.
While the coaching staff appreciates Mendoza’s competitiveness, they didn’t want him putting himself at risk with the team less than two quarters away from playing in the national title game.
“We were very conscious (of the situation),” Shanahan said after the game.
Mendoza had one more carry after that off an RPO near the goal line right after IU blocked a punt. It was a play call that Shanahan immediately regretted with Oregon loading up the box.
“That wasn’t the best position to put him in,” he said.
Mendoza closed out the game for the Hoosiers under center by simply handing the ball off while the Hoosiers put the finishing touches on another lopsided win. He threw for 177 yards (17 of 20) and finished the game with more passing touchdowns (five) than incompletions (three) for the sixth time this season.
Oregon’s Dan Lanning had high praise for Mendoza’s overall performance after the game, but he became the latest in a long line of opposing coaches to mention his scrambling ability in the same breath as his arm talent.
“The guy makes the right decisions,” Lanning said. “You consistently see if he sees the right coverage, you know, he takes the ball where it’s supposed to go, dictated by coverage. I think he did a great job again on the scrambles early. I thought we had him boxed up in the third down early in the game, which was critical and was able to scramble for a first down.”
Shanahan underlined Mendoza’s decision-making as well in talking about the growth he’s seen from the quarterback this season and his improvisational skills (and when to use them) are a big part of that.
“He makes my life and my job so much easier,” Shanahan said. “I think he’s playing his best ball right now. I don’t know if that was the confidence he got from winning Heisman or beating Ohio State, I feel like we are on the right path. We got one more to go.”
Michael Niziolek is the Indiana beat reporter for The Bloomington Herald-Times. You can follow him on X @michaelniziolek and read all his coverage by clicking here.
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