I am doing everybody on Ken Bikoff and Welcome to the Peaks postgame Live Indiana thirty eight to three winners at the Rose Bowl.

As this unbelievable season continues, Indiana is now at I mean, my god, this is just doing absolutely Incrediblecome to the absolutely incredible Indian Uh.

Eight one to two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is the number.

We're live.

We're going to be here for as long as we as we you guys want to talk about this because I have said over and over again that until Indiana wins these games, I still struggle to wrap my head around what's what's going on?

UH, and this is just it's incredible.

Indiana absolutely dominated Alabama in every single possible way.

They were never really threatened by Alabama.

I feel like Kurt Signetti really made a point in this game to uh not pile on, but he was making it clear he's heard everybody saying that, Well, yeah, but it's it's they're in the Big Ten.

It's not the SEC, it's not this, it's not that.

I'll tell you what.

Indiana showed exactly what they could do against an SEC team, UH in this one, and it.

Was h.

Everything.

I think everybody dreamed that it could be.

Eight one two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is your number.

Feel free to uh to throw some uh questions in the chat, give me a call.

We're live, and uh just it just could not be you know, just happier with everything that we just saw.

You know, it's such a special night, such a special night.

The first game Indiana has played as the number one ranked team in the country in its history, and the way this team responded was just by laying just a quality, quality ass kicking on one of the most historic programs in college football.

It's absolutely incredible.

Eight one two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is the number.

I think.

You know.

One of the things that you really have to start with in this game is the efficiency of Fernando Mendoza, Heisman Trophy winner fourteen to sixteen, one hundred and ninety two yards, three touchdowns, just was as complete a game as he can possibly have.

Mendoza three for one hundred ninety two yards.

Alabama gained one hundred and ninety three yards total.

Indiana rushed for one or two hundred and fifteen yards.

You had Kaylon Black fifteen carries for ninety nine yards.

Roman Hemvy eighteen carries for eighty nine yards.

I mean, it was just a destruction, just an absolute destruction of Alabama and just so so exciting to see.

And it also sets up this rematch with Oregon in the Peach Bowl, and that is going to be a fascinating game and you can't help but feel good about Indiana's chances in that.

And it's just extraordinary.

Eight one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six hundred is the number of lines are open.

I know that this.

I feel like this is going to be kind of like it was after the Big Ten Championship game, where people are going to be watching the postgame show.

But here's the thing about scheduling these things.

You can't go live and say, Okay, well we'll go if they win, we'll go live thirty minutes after the game.

But if they don't, you know, we'll go on immediately after.

Another thing that you might be wondering is why am I not in Pasadena or why am I not covering the game on site.

Honestly, it is because of the fact that I don't want there to be connection issues.

I don't want there to be any issues at all when I'm doing this.

I want to hear from you, guys.

I want to put together as good a show as we possibly can.

And that's kind of where we're at.

So let me go ahead and take in our first caller.

Caller, if you have your name, where you're from, and what you got.

Hey, Ken is Russ from Reno.

How are you doing?

I'm doing great, Russ.

How are you doing?

Rose bult Champ?

Can you believe it?

Yeah?

Rose Bowl, And it's not just a matter if you went out there and you played it and you put up a good fight.

You beat the hell out of Alabama and shut up every look.

I've said over and over that the critics and all that they keep being quieted, the SEC crowd is real, real quiet tonight tell you that.

Yeah, you know, with why it going down earlier in the season and then daily going down last you know, last game.

I was one of those guys.

I was a little worried, you know, not gonna lie about how the defense would respond.

And man, they couldn't have done and performed any better.

The physicality, the relnelessness, the depth that they showed, it was incredible.

Yeah, they just demoralized them.

I mean that That's what it comes down to.

I think Kirk kurb Street was right on when he said if you look at him, they looked defeated, and that's exactly what it was.

Indiana rolled over them and they just kept up that pressure all the way through the full sixty minutes.

Yeah, you know, the offensive line it was.

You know, it was like watching an Alabama team ten years ago play against everybody else.

Yep, you know how they were moving the bodies around on the other side.

Just absolutely dominated it, absolutely.

And I do I do have one question.

Do you know why Johnny was starting?

You know, I tackle that's a little strange.

You're not gonna lie to have that happen, you know, in a game like this with and then Benson was getting reps later.

You know, do you think they were just rotating or maybe something he showed in practice, you know, maybe maybe your thoughts.

On that that could be.

We'd have to find out, you know, from Seg after the game.

But yeah, you know, it's just something to where there's been some rotation at that position in the past couple of games, and so not stunned by it, but you know, yeah, we'll have to check with Seg.

Afterwards it is press conference.

It's just crazy to think that Indiana has potential.

You know, maybe you know NFL try out.

You know, Benson probably get a camp invite.

I assume at the minimum, you know, that he's not even starting for the team is pretty crazy.

Yeah, and it's also crazy that they're probably most likely going to be favored in the semi final game as well.

Oh, I think we're favored.

Every game should be, you know at this point.

And who could be Biger favored than us?

You know is important on So yeah, thanks.

For everything you do.

Can appreciate you, and I'll call in after a victory in the teachable How about.

That sounds great?

Take care?

Eight one, two, three, nine three twenty six hundred is the number?

Got another caller online?

It's uh you premire caller?

If I have your name, where you're from and what you got?

Akb It's Larry from the Fort.

How you doing, buddy?

I'm doing good, Larry?

How are you good man?

You ready for the poem?

Bring it?

Damn A came for Roses?

How you came to pass?

By halftime, folks were googling can Indiana really kick their ass?

Storeboard yelling plot twist, Crimson looking shook, Whosiers left the rose Bull look like, huh, I guess we are that good.

It is uh amazing how you do that every single game, and the kind of the kind of mental energy that you have to have to be able to put that together and get it ready to deliver it is fantastic.

So I thank you so much.

Anybody.

I'll tell you what on this game, I had time I could start the beginning of the half, right, I mean this game was over early.

I you came out dominant both sides of the ball, and uh, I mean I wasn't nervous after that first I mean by halftime, I wasn't nervous at all.

Were you?

Oh yeah no.

I even tweeted about this that it's just it's the scarred I you aluming me that.

I was like, all right, they're going to bring in this backup quarterback.

He's somehow going to score thirty five unanswered, and you know, it's just one of those things.

But uh, it's it's a different, different time and I didn't really expect that.

But by that same token, there's just you it's tough to overcome those feelings, but we have to at this point.

We have to at this point because Indiana just held Alabama to three points and it's just incredible.

Yes, I mean I kind of fall into the old rut that you were speaking of, like, man, I I'm not sure we're going to get it.

I mean, if I were honest with you, I pregame bad against are you.

I don't know.

I'll probably just keep hedging my happiness to keep these Seusiers winning.

I guess, well there's uh uh several and I am not a good gambler at all.

Uh And so that was one of those things where I have taken to just like putting a couple bucks on the opposing team just for jinks purposes, and so I give up.

I give that.

So you know, you lose five bucks, who cares?

You know, it's it's worth it.

And then I feel like I've done my part.

So no, I kind of went with you want to check in?

Do you have a good Christmas?

In New Year?

Christmas?

It was fantastic.

New Year's was great last night.

Uh, and had a nice big party with a bunch of friends here at my house, and uh, I really enjoyed that.

We always there's always a theme and we dress up in costumes.

My wife and I where I was Axel Rose, she was slashed.

So just that kind of thing.

Yes, I was at one last night.

The theme was a Erica, so everybody was there.

You go USA and we do that as well.

All right, man, Hey, I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of other people trying to get on after this big win tonight my Sunday, after i U basketball, You're gonna have a call.

Yeah, yeah, absolutely, yeah.

I mean it's a late to late tip off, eight thirty tip off, but yeah, there's gonna be a calling you after that for sure.

Yeah, if you're up, I'm up, buddy.

All right, I appreciate take care later, Mike.

Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is the number as I see here on on the screen again that they're they're doing the postgame stuff and handing out the roses and and doing all that.

So if we're a little bit late with some uh some people coming in, I understand it, and that's perfectly fine.

Uh, they'll get here when there is on the chat.

IU Basketball twenty two said we want Bama and that is something that after Indiana beat Michigan in twenty twenty.

I mentioned this in the last uh Uh podcast that that was something that I you fans were chanting, we want Bama, and they got them and they destroyed him.

D'Angelo Pons I see as being awarded the defensive player of the game.

He popped Simpson and forced to fumble.

That was really really important and Simpson unfortunately was injured on the play.

But it was a big hit and Pond's had a couple of big hits in this one.

And that's the thing about this.

There is plenty of love to go around for a lot of people because a lot of people could could get plenty of credit for what they did in this, whether it's Cooper or sarat or Hemby or Kaylon Black or Fernando you know, Carter Smith, the Angelo Pons, Mikhel Kamara, all of these guys just incredible.

Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is the number we got another call.

Call her for your name, where you're from and what you got?

Kyb Ryan from Round Lake, Man, How are you?

I'm good?

Ryan?

How you live?

Man?

They're good?

There was a great uh great IU party united at Portside Pizza off Shriner lots of lots of lots of folks up there.

Whitley County showed out.

Uh for that.

I was thinking, man, slow down, A little baby would have been a great thing to call in for.

I don't have the capability to do that.

What a performance, hey, I thought, Uh, Mendoza, he sprayed around.

Yeah you know, I mean yet Charlie b Yeah, omar uh you had trap all score.

The running game took over late.

I mean just I was stunned at the domination, especially on the defensive line, right, incredible, incredible.

Well, and I see that Pat Coogan won the Rose Bowl Offensive MVP Award too, as you know, alignment, and that's just incredible.

I hadn't seen that.

Yeah, well, what what.

Here's the thing.

Indiana was incredibly efficient offensively, and you mentioned him spreading the ball around.

Completed passes to six different receivers Sarat Cooper, Nuwakowski, Becker, Black.

And E.

J.

Williams.

Nobody got more than four catches.

Nobody made had catches for more than fifty one yards.

So it wasn't like a huge staff thing, but it was just you you there's not a matter of I could guard one guy in Indiana's gonna get shut down.

The balance that's involved here is absolutely incredible, yep, all time.

Like I mean, you go back a couple of weeks that you know, at first Saturday December we beat out of State, win the Big Ten.

Yeah, because the today eclipse.

This is the greatest single day in Indiana football history.

No question, no question.

Because again this is another box checked off.

Okay, so they had to beat Ohio State.

That was a box they had to check off, and they did it, win the Big Ten championship, did it Now playing in a college football playoff game, winning in the postseason, and just winning a bowl, which is something that hasn't happened for a long time.

Those boxes are checked off.

And so now that each one, I mean, look, the last box to check off is one that didn't even exist in most people's minds of winning a national championship.

And their next opponent is a team they've already beaten by ten at their place this year in a tough game, and it's not going to be an easy game for sure, but they will be favored.

And you know, look, everybody just has to believe that this is uh, this is real.

And I was getting calls earlier in the year about what is the ceiling for this team?

And eventually we just had to admit, Yeah, the ceiling is as high as you want to make it.

And especially after you just straight humiliate Alabama.

I mean that's that's that's where we're at.

Well, it was humiliate and then also humility on the back end.

Sure, sure with the interviews.

I mean that was incredible.

I got one more question.

I'll get off with some miss call in.

Maybe your best Christmas gift.

Best Christmas gift.

Let's see what was my best Christmas gift?

Uh?

My wife got me a couple of long sleeved shirts that I really like, a Chicago White Sox shirt because I'm a White Sox fan.

And so that was.

You're South your South, Yeah, you're a Southsider, Yes, sir.

Hey dude, you ever get to you ever get to Whitley County.

I'm telling you Portside Pizza is a Cub's bar.

Do not wear that in there.

Man, you will leave black and blue.

Brother, I'm telling you that right now.

Get a fair warning.

Friend to a friend.

You know I am Bears, Bulls, Black Hawks, White Sox.

You know that I grew up in Northwest Indiana in Chicago area.

And so I'm all there, but yeah, southsider.

What where in the reason you're from?

Marraville, Maryville, iron Man, kybe Ire Uh Piet Bowl.

Uh you going?

Well, No, I'm not planning on going uh.

And And again the reason is is after that Oregon game I did, I had a remote broadcast that fell apart and I ended up having to do it from here.

And so if I'm not at Memorial Stadium, I'm leary about about losing connections and doing stuff like that.

But for that Peach Bowl, I might try to set up some kind of thing where I can uh do a remote broadcast somewhere here at a local bar.

So that's that's kind of what I'm shooting for.

Love it man, and incredible we had with the County.

Time was hop and I'll say I'll just say at leave at that.

Yeah, I appreciate it, right, bless to see buddy, Thank you so much.

Blloy A one two, three nine three, twenty six hundred is the number.

Hoosier Texan on the chat says I never thought I'd be around to see the Hoosiers win the Rose Bowl, or actually be here in Pasadena to see it.

But wow, let's go Hoosiers and uh then ultimate team effort.

This is from Lynchin fifty to one twenty three.

Ultimate team effort.

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.

Go I you and yeah, that's uh, that's where it was.

They absolutely were incredible, and uh it's just so much fun to see and to see this team just be able to uh be as efficient as it was.

And the these shots of the players with the rose bowl stems uh in their uh their mouths, sig getting covered in rose petals, just absolutely incredible, just unbelievable, and it's so much fun to see all of this uh uh happening.

Eight one two is the number.

Uh so here here's the uh something to just talk about too, is this Indiana defense was so dominant.

They hold Alabama to twenty three total yards one hundred and ninety three uh twenty three total yards rushing, one hundred and ninety three yards overall, just eleven first downs.

Indian ran sixteen more plays than Alabama.

Obviously, Indiana got the turnover.

The Hoosiers had the ball for thirty four minutes, had six tackles for loss.

I mean, just incredible.

Aiden Fishers seven tackles, five solo stops, and Boycin with seven solo stops.

Devin Boykin seven tackles, six solo stops, three tackles for loss.

He had a sack as well, and this defense was absolutely dominant.

And that's the beautiful thing about all of this is it's just so many directions that it could come from, and it's really really amazing.

Again.

Kaylon Black fifteen carries for ninety nine yards and a touchdown.

Roman Henby eighteen carries for eighty nine yards and a touchdown.

Fernando Mendoza eight carries for sixteen yards, Kobe Martin four carries for eleven yards, Alberta Mendoza two carries for six yards.

In the passing game, four catches for Elijah Surratt forty yards and a touchdown, Omar Cooper three catches forty five yards and a touchdown.

Riley with Noa Kowski three catches for thirty six yards.

Charlie Becker two catches for fifty one yards.

Cannot say enough about Charlie Becker just the two catches find but one of them is a touchdown.

He continues to just develop and build on this raport that he has with Fernando Mendoza.

The fact that this team, you know, there's a lot of talk about them having time off and doing how that would that impact the Hoosiers.

The fact that they are now uh, they they come out, they have a three and out, they get sacked a couple of times and doesn't phaze anybody.

They get right back to it and there's just no hesitation, no no problem for this team in keeping their head on on, you know, in in on even keel you're coming up on Twitter that before today schools, with the bye week and the twelve team CFP era Era wenth and six, the Hoosiers are now the only team to win.

We'll see how much longer that lasts.

But that's that's kind of where we're at.

Eight one, two, three, nine, six hundred is the number.

Give me a call.

This game.

Was just.

You know, people talk to me about doing this show, and you know what it's like, and you know, is it is it?

You know?

Fun?

Of course it's fun.

But this team, for two years now, it's been really tough to come up with anything to criticize them for.

Not because I'm being a homer, but I mean, Jesus, what do you talk about with this team in terms of criticizing them or any There's nothing there.

There's nothing there.

Your Heisman Trophy quarterback was fourteen of sixteen for three touchdowns and no interceptions.

Furthermore, didn't even really come close to throwing an interception, so he only had two incompletions.

It's just amazing.

And this is the biggest football win in IU history, and each one going forward will continue to be because of what it means along the way.

You know, it's beating Ohio State was the biggest win in IU football history.

Indiana is now one and zero as the top ranked team in the country.

In a team that fell victim to anything that was you know, all the media and all of that and all the noise that goes along with it, they weren't impacted by it at all.

And now just see the IU band on the field playing in the Red Steppers.

I'm sure there's a lot of you that are still watching the feed.

It's hard to argue with, you know, just the joy that's there and the excitement that comes with all of this.

Again, a lot of silence from those sec lovers who said, you know, all the big tens of fraud.

The Big tens is the Big tens that especially after Ohio State lost, this is this is how it works.

This is incredible.

So Oregon is thirteen and one, they're one loss coming to Indiana by ten at their place.

So it's still not an easy path.

You still have to go and you have to perform in Atlanta.

But this is an IU team that has played big games, and you know, Oregon was one of the teams that that really challenged them this year.

But Indiana's still one by ten.

So it it really is unbelievable.

That's it.

That's the word that keeps going through my head and I'm sure it goes through yours as well.

A one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six hundred is the number.

Jason on the chat says, we all can learn from this team.

They really are a team.

They play for one another, and I really feel like they're a group.

It's not a piece of the piots about the whole.

And that is absolutely true.

That is absolutely how they approach things.

And you know, when you see these guys around one another, you could tell that they like playing with one another.

And success will do that, especially success at this level in the college football Playoff.

Indiana puts up thirty eight points on Alabama, and there are gonna be people that all be like, well, yeah, but that's the fourth loss for Alabama.

This Alabama wasn't the Alabama in the past.

Yeah, and this Indiana ain't the Indiana of the past.

It's a new world, new world, and it's just exciting to see lines are open.

Give us a call, want to hear from you.

Indiana thirty eight to three winners over the Cribs and Tide.

They have won the Rose Bowl and move on to the semi finals of the College Football Playoff.

They're now one game farther along than they were last year.

Indiana still has only lost twice in the past two years.

Loss.

That win, by the way, keeps Alabama from earning its one thousandth all time victory.

Believe I saw that that stat so that that was something that uh they were playing.

Alabama was playing for obviously, just to move on, and instead Indiana was like, Nope, Nope, that's just how it is.

You know, I mentioned this earlier, but I you know, for the people who are just showing up, I really feel like in that fourth quarter that Signetti was making a point Now they weren't, you know, throwing a bunch of passes.

They weren't doing that.

But Indiana stayed on the gas and scored fourteen points.

And his point that he was making was, I hear all of you saying that you know the sec this the sec that all of that.

I hear that, and here's this and I love that about him.

I really do you know all those shots on the sideline where he looks like the granch and is just so focused and I mean, he looks like a psychopath in the very best way.

And it's just amazing to watch.

It's absolutely amazing to watch a one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six hundred is the number.

I also appreciated the fact that ESPN gave a shout out to Don Fisher, who with through all of this.

Uh, I'm thrilled for Don.

I'm thrilled that he's been able to enjoy this and be a part of this and uh have be part of calling a game at the Rose Bowl.

I think is uhh, that is is what is great.

See a lot of a lot of people mentioning Paul Feinbaum, who certainly is no fan of IU foot ball.

Uh yeah, I want to hear what he has to say too, because he's been full of crap the entire time and doesn't know his asked from his elbow when it comes to IU football.

But I want to hear what he has to say now because his beloved SEC team, Uh, they just got whacked.

You know.

In the pregame, I think is Desmond Howard and uh Nick Saban, Uh they both picked Alabama to win.

Wrong.

Indiana took care of business, and Uh, the beautiful thing about this, everybody is the Hoosiers have their head coach and he's signed to a long term contract.

Offensive coordinator Mike Shanahan contract extension, defensive coordinator Brian Haynes contract extension.

This is sustainable.

And you think people don't want to come and play for Indiana, I mean, what's not the love about what's happening with IU.

That's why you know again Jason here saying we can all learn from this team about the beauty of playing together.

That's uh, that's where we're at.

There's so many lessons that can be learned from this IU team and it's just a joy to watch.

And I'm sure a lot of you are like me too that uh they you know, you watch this team play, and outside of obviously the Ohio State game that was a tight one, UH, Indiana has made it pretty easy to watch because there's a lot of relaxing games along the way, including in the Rose Bowl against Alabama, there wasn't a ton of concern.

That's it's just unbelievable, unbelievable.

And this is now the one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eighth, ninth, tenth game of the fourteenth of the fourteen game season to this point in which Indiana gave up one touchdown or fewer.

In the past three games, Indiana has given up sixteen points and they have outscored their opponents one hundred and seven to sixteen.

Just domination.

Then go back to the Wisconsin game and it's one hundred and seven to twenty three over the course of four football games.

It's amazing, Manhattan.

Hoosier says, it's all happening so fast.

Every week is the greatest ever.

It's wild, and he's right, he's absolutely right.

He's absolutely right, because it's it's just ridiculously exciting, UH to see lines are open.

Give me a call.

I want to hear from you here in this new Year's Day.

I hope everybody had, you know, I hope they You didn't have too much too much fun last night.

And if he did that, you're you're recovering and at least you didn't have to be stressed out by a football game today once the Hoosiers took care of it.

Just incredible.

You know, these individual performances are are something else.

Offense, defense, all of these these uh these players, all of them working together.

You know, I thought Kirk Herbstreet did a great job of kind of showcasing that offensive line and how they're working together, and also the defensive line in terms of how they're opening creating openings for their teammates.

And that kind of sacrifice is important.

And also let's talk about the fact that Mikhale Kamara in a game in which a season in which he hasn't been as prominent as he was last year, Kamara ends up with a sack the one tackle that he had, but still he was disruptive even without getting some stops.

It was just unbelievable.

Unbelievable.

Talk about chunk plays.

Okay, Alabama had one run for thirteen yards.

That's the only play that they had of a running play of ten or more yards, four plays of fifteen yards or more of these chunk plays, an eighteen yard yard pass, a thirty four yard pass, a sixteen yard pass, and a twenty six yard pass, and that's it.

Ty Simpson was twelve of sixteen for sixty seven yards, Austin Mac eleven of sixteen for one hundred and three yards, so a total of twenty four to thirty three a bucks seventy.

Simpson was the leading rusher for Alabama, three carries for seventeen yards.

That was it, Timbo Slice says, greatest day in IU football history, And yep, it sure is.

It sure is until the Peach Bowl next week, in which case Indiana has that opportunity to win and go on to a national championship game.

And it's just wild to me.

It's just wild.

Got another caller color to have your name, where you're from and what you got?

Hey, Kim, this is Adrian from Nashville, Tennessee.

How you doing tonight?

I'm man, I'm doing great age, how.

I'm fantastic.

I gotta tell you, and I'll be honest with you, Ken, I've had you know, there's been several beverages that have been rolling around.

So I'll try to go through this, try to do this with being uh you know, making some sense here.

But listen, one of the biggest things we can go through all the stuff that happened in the game.

Everything.

But I've i you know, from Indiana, but I've lived in in the South since nineteen ninety seven, uh, since graduating college.

So being down here in the South, it is even last week, my wife and I were out with a shop for some presents, and you know, I had the eye you gear on going into a establishment, you know, not you know, nice and Bama fan.

The guy that was in the establishment.

But he's like, you know, hey, you know, you know it's going to be a good game next week.

But you know, hey is Indiana.

You know Indian.

I haven't played the big boys yet.

And you know, I you know, I told him, I say, you know what, you know what Indian actually is a big boy.

But and I say that in respect this that's a kind of you know, you know, I won't really would like them to win the national championship with them beating Alabama.

And like I said, when you live in the South, you the feeling is basically that the only conference the only teams that can play any kind of football are in the South, and so I've just I get it every day and I'm kind of so over it.

So this was and you know, I'm glad that they won, but the fact that how they won, to me just shows the fact that you know, to to you know, you know, any amount of neighbors that I have that you know or you know, wearing their Alabama gear or their SEC gear.

It's like it just feels good, I think, if all everything else, it just it makes you feel so good to be able to walk into work next week and and understand that a team from the Midwest and North whatever it came in and beat you know, uh, you know the historically fine honestly, and a great team in Alabama, you know historically, but you know, just just not to beat them, to dominate them, you know.

But like I said, anybody who lives in the South certainly would understand exactly what I'm talking about.

Well, be ready for those goalposts to be moved, because now it's going to be like, well, that Alabama team wasn't that good.

They they lost four games this year.

They weren't that good.

You know, they fell behind against Oklahoma and just got on a roll.

So now what they have to do is it wait for those goalposts to be moved.

I guarantee you that's what's going to happen.

Well, I'll tell you what.

Ken.

I just want to tell you too.

And I know I've told this.

Before and other people call, but you know, I really appreciate you doing this.

And this is kind of an old school thing for you know, I'm fifty now, so having a call in, you know, it's really nice.

And I know you know you're not you're not making millions by doing this, and maybe you are, but but I really I just want to say I really appreciate it because I think we all love IU football.

We're all kind of in shock.

You know, I say we're in shock.

I'm in shock that they won the way that they did.

I really thought they would win.

But I think, you know, and you know, we've been conditioned so long for you know, basketball, you know, conditioned as far as Indiana football has been so poor and we've had to rely on basketball season and now to really truly I think this, you know, as much as I love basketball growing up, I really do think Indiana has shifted and into the right way.

I mean, you know, they can do both a little bit.

It's hard to do both.

But I do think now, I mean, I mean, I don't know, ken you tell me.

I mean, I mean a football school basketball school.

But I think at the end of the day, you've got you know, if you want to be relevant, you've got to be good at football.

That's always been the case.

Yeah, you know, and that isn't is in something new.

That's always been the case because you look at it.

You know, Memorial Stadium holds fifty one thousand people.

You sell that place out and that is three basketball games and you do that.

So it just generates so much revenue for the athletic department and it's so helpful in so many areas that being good at football is really important.

And so that's been a handicap that I has had to kind of deal with over the years of football still being the biggest revenue generator, but wouldn't generate revenue the way that it does at other places.

So if you want to have nice things, you need that revenue, and football being able to drive this revenue is really really makes an impact with this with this athletic department.

Well and I tell you too.

Like listen every time, every time cursing that he gets an interview, and really, I think what it has been a big shift and change from whether it was Green Span or whoever.

The He's constantly talking about Scott Dowson and Pam Whitten and their commitment to the football program.

And I think at the end of the day, really that's at the end because and I live here in Nashville, where as much as I can, I was rooting so much against Vanderbilt because I don't like Diego Pavia.

I do like Clark Lee and their program, but they made a commitment to football like Indiana's made a commitment to football, And so I think it's I think it is due to Pam Witten, and of course we know Scott Dolson.

But I'll let you go, Ken, I really appreciate everything you do, and you know, I'll be one of the reasons I typically don't want like to call in because you know, I cycle a lot and I like to listen to these podcasts postgame, you know, my mom workouts and stuff like that, so that I really appreciate it.

Ken, thank you for everything you do.

I appreciate that so much.

Thank you so much, how about it.

That's very nice.

That's appreciated.

I love getting calls from Tennessee and all over the place.

I think that's that's fantastic.

It's one of my favorite things about all of this.

A one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is the number.

This again is one of those things where Indiana winning the ballgame and winning it so convincingly is a great thing because of how badly Indiana fans have wanted a winning program for so long, and uh, the dream of this kind of success generally wasn't on anybody's radar.

You know, go to a Bowl, find six games, and now it's so much more.

There is nothing that would make this season less successful.

You know.

Yeah, so you want to keep winning and win a national championship, obviously, But should Indiana come out and lose to Oregon and lose in a national championship game, no one's going to look back and be like, oh man, you know, this is really a disappointment of a year.

This is this is a standard that has been set, but it's not something that Kurt Signetti is maybe surprised by.

This is his standard, and you better damn well get on board with it.

By the way, this is according to the Big Ten Network, the Hoosiers allowed the fewest points by any team in a Rose Bowl game since Washington shut out Iowa in nineteen eighty two.

So how about that?

How about that?

Well?

All these things are fun, aren't they.

By the way, I also saw something of its Alabama's worst postseason loss in its history.

And I'm sure that the numbers are out there, but the you know, I'm curious as to what is the biggest recent loss in Alabama football history in terms of margin.

So I'll just go ahead and look that up.

Okay, So Alabama's biggest loss in program history.

This is according to Google Gemini.

So oh, here we go.

Sporting News is on it.

This century.

This is the biggest loss this century for Alabama football.

So there you go.

Thirty five points and by and it's by a touchdown margin.

They lost the championship game to Clemson in twenty eighteen forty four to sixteen.

Uh, that was the previous big one until they showed up to play Indiana in the Rose Bowl.

In Indiana gave them a little bta gotta love it.

Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is the number.

Give me a call.

The postgame stuff is over now, the uh oh, they're still kind of talking about it on this ram Truck's post game, so there's that.

Hopefully we'll get some more people to come on in because I want to hear from you.

Throw in some questions in the chat.

We want all of it.

First ever Rose Bowl winning, I believe it was.

Also the Charlie Becker touchdown was Indiana's first ever offensive score in the Rose Bowl because in the nineteen sixty seven Rose Bowl, which I guess is nineteen sixty eight.

Oh no, they lost fourteen to three, so they didn't score a touchdown at all.

So there's that.

I thought it was fourteen to seven.

I am wrong.

So there we go.

It's a ton of fun.

We got another caller, caller of your name, where you're from and what you got?

Hey again, this is Kevin from Santakarina calling back from again for the third time this year.

Yes, sir, I have to apologize, Sara.

We didn't give you your best the best weather for the usual January first weather little web today, but uh I saw it again and the game was un The sun was shining on Indiana.

That was a great performance and your your lines dominated again and uh, I'm just uh, I'm just as I felt bad for you're the band.

The Indiana band did need to do their halftime show, but uh, you know, what can you do with the range?

Sometimes it rained sometimes in southern Califoria, not often, but sometimes, but in Indiana, big big chen champs, Rose Bowl champs.

I'm sure no one could have dreamed that just a few years ago.

And good luck next week and maybe I'll talk to you after the show.

That sounds great.

Thank you so much for the call.

All right, take it eat you Ken, Thanks bye bye.

So, guys that don't know, that's Kevin from Santa Clarita.

He actually is the U c.

L A fan who joined me in the parking lot after Indiana beat UCLA earlier this year fifty six to six, and he sat down and was really great.

So I really appreciate him giving us a call and getting a chance to talk to us.

I love that.

Got another call he hair caller of your name, where you're from?

And what she got.

Against?

Kevin from Middland.

How are you doing today?

Hi?

Kevin?

How you doing good?

A couple of corrections for you.

I won.

Actually, the stadium doesn't hold fifty one.

It holds almost fifty seven thousand.

Memorial Stadium.

Yeah, oh that's.

Bat it out.

Uh huh it is.

They were sold out and over sold almost every well except for the first three games.

And what was the crowd over there a year The capacity is fifty two six twenty six.

Well, when I was there for the Michigan game a year ago, there were over fifty six thousand people.

In that place were standing standing room only.

Okay, so I U says that they hold that.

The current capacity is at fifty three five twenty four.

So yeah, you get you throw in some standing room you ain't they Hell, you could fit as many people as you want in the plays of you don't have to actually sell them a seat.

Well, let me tell you what.

You couldn't move that game.

They couldn't move it.

Allowed of those games, if you had to go to the bathroom, either you hold it or you had a big cup.

Yeah.

Absolutely.

You know, I think a couple of things today, And I'm laughing now because I'm just laughing at the fact that you know, Des Howard's on the pregame trip yet he's getting to shove right up his backside, you know, because he's because Michigan's not in it.

And Michigan got their ass kicked yesterday, and you know he ain't gonna talk about that, right, but they did so now today, Oh no, Indiana, well you.

Know, no, no, I'm going.

With Alabama, and Alabama's traditional Alabama's THISI well, Elbama got their ass kicked.

I mean, there's no other way to describe it.

It was it was men playing boys today, period and unequivocally.

The tradition is really that I say it all the time, that that history is for the media and the fans, that the players.

Once you get over kind of that there's Alabama across the line from US.

Once that no longer registers, it makes a difference.

And I felt that because Indiana beat Ohio State last time out, this IU team wouldn't give a damn that they the other team was wearing Alabama uniforms.

They believed they were the better team, and then they set out to prove it and then did just that.

Yeah, well, I don't just agree that because you could tell once once Indiana got going, once we got going, today, Alabama took a step back and then a step back and a step back, and you could just see it.

Every time we got the ball, they were back, and you know, and and I said, if we come out, stop them right up the bed half and we score, they're done.

I mean, they don't have a prayer chance in hell.

And I like howing the announcer said, well, uh he what did he said?

Uh?

Something about he's never he said something about de boor and so on and so forth.

They've never been a bit behind it half times like they were behind against Oklahoma at halftime.

Everybody forgets that was seventeen to seven because the Alabama scored just before the half and then they got the interception start second half and he got a dona.

But you know, the third thing was he looked on the side and then they showed it and look at look at Kane Walmack.

He's going you could just see, my god, they're destroying me.

The last thing I would says, I think the biggest single adjustment was this Alabama came out and went rate instead planes on.

They played man to man.

So that first series they had they were sending four or five six guys and they got to us right.

But the fact that we adjusted to the man.

The man that fast was huge because all of a sudden we realized they're playing man to man and if we run the ball and we find scenes, they're gonna bust some runs.

Well, we started to run the ball and guess what we found we had.

We had.

We started getting better runs and better runs and better runs, and that destroyed their man and man.

And the other thing we did against their Mando man was that Fernando took off in run three or four times.

Yes, and by the by the time, by the time they realized he was turned the balls too late.

And I think what it did to the defensively, he say, what do we do now?

Man?

We play zone.

He's gonna r po us to death.

We're playing man and running all over us.

I mean, we don't have And I just think from a national perspective, this game, even though I don't think it's sent shockways amongst the Indiana fans, I think Indiana fans expected we're gonna win.

I don't think we expected to win this big.

But from the national scene, I think shockways went across the country.

It's like, you know, holy crap, these guys are for real.

And I think that I think.

I mean, I think you're gone.

Game is gonna becaus gonna be a bitch of a game.

I'm serious.

I think it's gonna be out of the game.

I don't, okay, But all of a sudden, Oregons is seeing a different Indiana team than what they saw when we were up there, right, I think we're you know, we're stronger.

I think that Kamara getting a sack today, and you can see the fact that all of a sudden, it's like, oh, I got one finally, you know.

And now it's like to read because then for the rest of the game he was in and on or around or all over the quarterback.

I mean he was.

He was like a man on a mission.

So we solved an issue of not having not been with our life to have daily I think we have daily.

I don't think anybody's got a better defensive front of the country than we do.

No, I agree with that.

We have.

Who's Wyatt you know, one of those two guys.

But guess what I'm trying to who's the guy that took his place, that can't pronounce his last number?

Seventeen?

He didn't hurt us at all.

No, there's no drop off at all, and that everybody else, Yeah, it's in Duqua, and they that that's the beauty of it is there is no drop off.

And Sig does want to hear any kind of you know thing you and anybody feeling sorry for him.

It's like, look, you're next guy up, you're out there now, it's time for you to play like the most of it.

And I love that attitude.

I think the last thing I'm gonna say is, I think from a recruiting exposure, I think this gave us.

I think this opens up both portal sure and high school recruise.

I think this opens up so many more doors for us, you know.

I mean, I don't have any issues.

I think that everything he's going to need for anisle that he's he's going to have for next year already has it.

The fact that they have committed somewhere around going to raise one point three billion dollars something I read earlier this week, I believe her late last week.

And they're going they're going to do what they got to do with presspot everything.

I mean, it's going to be it's going to be good.

You know what I'm saying.

What they're going to do, and they're also renovations for the state, and they're handling them the right way.

They're not going to go jump and put fifteen more thousand seats in there.

That would be crazy, right, But probably within they when get to the press box within a year, as my guess, when they get to that and they get sweets built there and they get the press box up for that little piece that comes down, the stands taken away, which is gonna open up probably seven eight hundred seats, they'll probably add maybe fifteen hundred more around the place, and then they may wait three years.

Okay, let's see if we sell out tickets and we got a big season ticket, then we can maybe go on the student side and maybe put four or five thousand there.

I mean, I think sixty five thousand is a good number for us, and it's a workable number.

And as long as Signette's there and as staff is there, I mean, I don't, I don't.

We're not gonna take a step backwards.

You know, We're not gonna be fourteen or fifteen and zero every year.

That's just not going to happen.

We know that.

But we're going to be right there in the mix and we're going to be a program that is now starting that we're not a fly by night operation.

We're legitimate.

We are for real and we can play with anybody in the country and you can win today.

Hey yeah, yeah, yes, put that.

Oh by the way, right, we got one of those in our football building, So you know, I mean so that that's I mean, I just to me, I think today took us to another level as far as exposure on the national level.

Accept it on the national levels.

All of a sudden, you know this guy, this team is one of the top four or five teams in the Big ten absolutely period, and we're going to be here for a while.

Well, Kevin and I love it.

Yeah, go ahead and go.

Yeah, I say, I appreciate the call.

We got some more more people waiting, but uh, you know, I agree a great way.

Have you new year?

All right?

Take care?

Have you new year?

By bye bye bye?

One two, three, nine, three, twenty six hundred is the number.

Give us a call.

Got a caller here, it's been waiting patiently.

Call her.

Have your name, where you're from, and what you got?

Yeah, Jenny, Hey Rock from Green Going.

How's it going?

Hey?

I had to take it.

I had to take a break.

I got grounded for a while that my my, my friends, my my circle wouldn't let me call you anymore.

But oh no, they said, yeah, yeah, they said, you get too mad at me when I call.

So hey, listen, Hey, I don't know because but listen, hey, remember remember the first question I asked you, what is the ceiling for this team?

I mentioned you earlier?

Yeah, I mentioned exactly that that.

You know, I can't even mention me earlier.

Yeah, for sure, because because it was you know, what is the ceiling for this team?

What is the ceiling for this team?

And it took a while, it took a while before you just had to admit, yeah, no, the sky is a limit on this thing.

And now it really is.

You just beat the hell out of out of Alabama in the Rose Bowl.

Yeah, it's it's it's time to really really believe that you could do it.

Hey, they're like, I'm here in Pasadena right now, and the joy, the joy and the smiles of everybody, like, like, I mean, it's just such an impressive showing, right like, and I think it's really time to start talking about like these guys, these guys can do this.

I think they can do it, don't you.

I I do.

I think they're capable of it.

I do, and I don't.

I feel uncomfortable admitting that because it feels so unnatural, but absolutely, I mean, we're just at that point when you roll Alabama like this, a team with great speed, great athleticism, all of that, and Indiana was so clearly head and shoulders better than Alabama today.

It's it's incredible.

Yeah, how to look on TV?

It was gorgeous.

It was gorgeous.

Were they giving a lot of eye love?

Yeah?

They were.

And wait until you go back and you watch it because the sideline shots of SIG's face the entire time, where he looks like the Grange the entire time, it's just tremendous a psychopath.

Yeah, very best way.

Yeah, many, it's ken.

I know you've been waiting for a long time what we all have.

And man, congratulations to you and Peegs and Rabbie.

I saw Rabbi Rabbi was trying to like he was trying to hang out with Depot for a while.

I got a great picture.

I'll send it to you.

Uh, but dude, no, I appreciate like you guys.

I mean listen like you guys do this for a living.

We lived through you guys and the fact that I you I U football.

There are Rose Bowl champions, my man, it's amazing.

Under undefeated, top three Big ten champion Rose Bowl winners move on in the college football semi finals.

And and and I think it's time for all of us to say, oh it's Indiana.

Now.

It's like, no, you know, Indian's gonna win this whole damn thing.

They're gonna win this whole damn thing.

Opportunity and who's your nation?

Was crazy today and I can't imagine what's going to be into peaceful.

Yeah, it's gonna be great.

So special, dude, Special Kenny, love your man, Hey, keep doing your thing and I'll see you around.

Man.

I appreciate it.

Thank you so much.

All I can't see you about it.

Take care eight one, two, three, nine, three, twenty six hundred.

That is the thing is, you know, it's everybody who is out there out in Pasadena, talk about just the IU presence that is there.

Back in two thousand and five, I covered the Super Bowl in Jacksonville and it was the Eagles and the Patriots and Eagles fans had a presence in the in the streets everywhere you went, oh wow, nice.

Apparently Fish after Caitlin Black's TD to put EU up thirteen to three, said how about that, Paul fine bomb?

I love it.

I love it absolutely.

Eight one, two, three, nine three, twenty six hundred is the number coming up on an hour that we've been on the air.

So we'll give this a little bit more time since there are some people that maybe didn't get a chance because they were watching that.

And plus you know, there's another football game going on right now, so that's a ton of fun.

I'm looking forward to that.

Also probably going to be a early night for me in terms of getting to bed, because I had a lot of fun during New Year's It's right would There will be no celebratory bourbon tonight.

I can tell you that as I enjoyed that yesterday.

Thirty eight to three is the final And again now you get into what it is that Indiana's next task is, which is the Peach Bowl in Georgia to take on Oregon, a team that Indiana beat at their place earlier this year by ten.

And just to review that game, that one went down October eleventh, So Indiana in that one, moved to six and zero on the season, became Bowl eligible that day.

And if you remember that one was Indiana was up it's twenty to thirteen early in the fourth quarter and Mendoza threw a pick six that tied the game at twenty, and the Hoosiers responded with a twelve place seventy five yard drive that ended with a Mendoza passed to elijahter Rat and then Radichich added a late field to give Indiana the ten point lead.

That also included a fifty eight yard field goal at right before halftime from Brandon Frankie, who got injured and has never been seen or heard from again, despite the fact, I mean I've asked him about him and they're like, well, you know, we'll see.

We've never gotten a good clear answer on that.

But Roman Hemby, by the way, today is now over one thousand yards rushing on the season.

He has one thousand and seven yards Kaylon Black he is is eight hundred and ninety seven yards, so he's one hundred and three yards away from reaching one thousand yards himself.

From a receiving standpoint Cooper with eight hundred and forty nine yards, Elijah Surrat seven hundred and twenty seven yards on the year at this point, and of course Mendoza he is now over three thousand yards passing this season, thirty six touchdowns versus just six interceptions, and more to come, more to come now.

The fact that Indiana has played Oregon before benefits both teams obviously, because of the fact that you know, Oregon was able to pick up plenty on tape, Indiana, you know, picked up plenty on tape.

This is a team that they're familiar with one another, which is helpful to a certain extent, but it also provides opportunities because these players can can feel like they know they know exactly what it is that some of these opponents are going to do, and you could exploit that.

In that game against Oregon, Oregon had let's see, what was a total offense, say two hundred and sixty seven yards of total offense on the day for that one and Dante Moore twenty one to thirty four for one hundred and eighty six yards, one touchdown in two interceptions.

Mendoza twenty thirty one in that game for two hundred and fifteen.

Serat had a big game and that one eight catches for one hundred and twenty one yards.

But like the callers said, I agree with this is a different IU team than that one was, even though it's in the same season.

This one is playing with a whole different They had a chip on their shoulder for that game at Oregon.

They had to prove that they belonged here.

It is Oregon's gonna be looking to avenge their single loss on the year to this point.

But IU is also playing with a ton of swagger and sig will make sure that they do not get overcompetent because that is not what it is that they will will do.

Oh it's a good, good point here.

Anna has returned to the Final four.

Just didn't expect it to be in football instead of basketball.

Last call for for calls eight one to two, three, nine, three, twenty six hundred is the number.

Lines are open.

But we'll shut this down if we don't get a call in the next few minutes.

JM on the thing says, remember when just becoming Bowl eligible was a successful season for IU football.

Yeah, it was two years ago.

There are three years ago.

Just looking for six wins.

All of this is has just been so fast, so quickly.

Also, Uh.

If I am not mistaken.

Uh, I'm literally googling, uh what is the uh?

Uh the best uh two years?

Uh?

Two seasons at a single school.

In his first two years at school, Signetti was at Rather Kailin de Boor was at twenty five wins.

With Washington, Signetti was at twenty four wins.

But this this was after the regular season, so this would be now he would have twenty six seasons twenty six wins.

Is that it?

I think it is because they were twelve and zero in it.

No, no, they were eleven and one.

So then this year was twenty three twenty four, he's at twenty five.

So he's now tied Kailen to Bor for the best first two years by a college football head coach, which is impressive.

It's unbelievable.

It has been a ton of fun and now there's still more more to go.

That game against Oregon, by the way, will be seven thirty pm.

You obviously will be the home team in that one in their red unis because they're the higher seed.

They are.

It's going to be the Peach Bowl a week from Friday, so look toapeagus dot com for all the coverage of that.

Also again show note.

We will have a call in after the IU Washington basketball game Sunday night.

It's an eight thirty tip off, so it'll be a little bit later, but hopefully you'll stay up and and you know, fire off some calls to me and and we'll be able to talk talk on the chat.

Ryan Markle says, is it crazy to say we should start talking about the potential of Sigg's effect not on Indiana, but his coaching tree.

A lot of Sigg's staff had a whole lot of potential to be more than just staff.

Yes, but Brian Haynes and Mike Shadahan just signed extensions.

They're not going anywhere.

And as you get into this was as you continue on, it's really difficult for you to there's no jobs left basically because you're doing a good enough job.

So, yeah, there's also the idea that we cannot overlook the fact that Signetti is he's sixty four years old.

He will be sixty five by the time this next year starts, so he still has a ton of time to coach.

Don't get me wrong, But this also then becomes a situation where you might be able to hand this off to one of them in the future.

So he's a guy that draws a ton of loyalty, and I think that that is something that don't have to worry too much about the coaching tree this year.

Going forward, that's a different issue.

But for right now here on January first, after a thirty eight to three ROWS win, I'm not going to worry about that right now.

But you're you're exactly right, that's something that could come up in the future.

But Indiana number one ranked undefeated at Indiana thirty eight to three winners over Alabama at the Rose Bowl, and Ryan says, Oh yeah, I just meant will one day decade down the lineby talking about the Signetti coaching dream in the same way we do save And it's quite possible.

It's quite possible because they've done amazing things.

And also Indiana fans shouldn't overlook the fact that the head coach at Alabama, Kaitlin de Bor, was the offensive coordinator at IU, Caine Wollmack was the defensive coordinator at IU.

A lot of IU ties.

There still a lot of credit to Tom Allen for those guys being around and helping in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty.

I know we that tends to get lost in the last three years of the Tom Allen time, but you know it did make a big difference.

He hired those guys and those are obviously good hires going forward.

You know, SIG is making Indiana a place to be where you could win a Heisman Trophy, you could compete for a national championship, win a Big Ten championship.

It's all on the table and that's that's how it is.

Well, we're gonna wrap this up here and really appreciate all the calls that we had.

Thirty eight to three is your final from Pasadena again, Jeff rab John's, Matt Weaver, Jared Kelly all out in Pasadena.

Be sure to catch all their coverage on peagues dot com and enjoy the win everybody, biggest win in IU football history for this week and so much more possible coming up on on January ninth.

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