Even after the last two years, IU is still not even in the top half.

It is the Big Three but Oregon is tied with Penn State. Of course they spent eight of those ten years in the Pathetic 12.

USC is pretty far down even though they spent eight of ten years in the Pathetic 12.

Minnesota is the most underrated Big Ten team.

Nebraska tied with Maryland? And we think Maryland is dead weight? Rutgers ... is dead weight.

27 of Indiana's 66 wins came in Cignetti's two years. So roughly 41% of the wins came in 20% of the last decade. For those first eight years that means there were just 39 years or 4.875 wins per season. If you assume a similar trajectory without Cig's turnaround to, say, a random standard coach or another two years of Tom Allen and then decide to be kind and round up to five wins each of those two seasons then IU is at 49 wins. So just above Rutgers and Maryland, worse than Nebraska.

(02-04-2026 08:15 PM)schmolik Wrote:  

Even after the last two years, IU is still not even in the top half.

It is the Big Three but Oregon is tied with Penn State. Of course they spent eight of those ten years in the Pathetic 12.

USC is pretty far down even though they spent eight of ten years in the Pathetic 12.

Minnesota is the most underrated Big Ten team.

Nebraska tied with Maryland? And we think Maryland is dead weight? Rutgers ... is dead weight.

Well if that's the way you're going to play it then we cheated to get to 96 too by getting that free playoff game against SMU and slightly less free one against BSU. And of course Michigan also had a bunch of playoff games, though all were significantly harder than our two wins. Then we have to stack up all of Oregon's... nevermind.