football-2006-season-review Stories - The Crimson Quarry
The season that was, Game 1: Indiana 39, Western Michigan 20.
Date: 9/2/2006.Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind.Box score/stats.Attendance: 30,733.The Hoosiers managed a comfortable yet not overly impressive win over Western Michigan in last year's opener. IU defeated a MAC opponent for the 16th consecutive time, dating back to a loss to Miami in...
The season that was, game 6: Indiana 34, Illinois 32.
Date: 10/7/06Location: Memorial Stadium, Champaign, Ill.Box score/statsAttendance: 43,006I discussed this game in some detail when Hep died, and so I will quote myself:When superficially reviewing IU's three Big Ten wins last season (not overwhelming, but IU's highest total since 2001), the two...
The season that was, game 5: Wisconsin 52, Indiana 17.
Man, I've got to get through these. Game week starts in three days! Date: 9/30/06Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind.Box score/statsAttendance: 32,142 This game marked the return of Terry Hoeppner after a two week absence following his second brain surgery. "Absence" is not terribly...
The Season that Was, game 4: Connecticut 14, Indiana 7.
Date: 9/23/06Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind.Box score/statsAttendance: 27,256Played on an ugly, rainy day, this was IU’s ugliest game of the year, and was the only game in which the offense failed to score a point (a late Marcus Thigpen kickoff return touchdown accounted for IU’s only...
The Season that Was, game 3: Southern Illinois, Indiana 28.
Date: 9/9/2006.Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind.Box score/stats.Attendance: 31,156.While IU's MAC winning streak continued, IU followed the Ball State comeback with one of the worst losses in school history. Certainly, the Hoosiers faced trying circumstances. Terry Hoeppner, although he...
The Season that Was, game 2: Indiana 24, Ball State 23.
Date: 9/9/2006.Location: Scheumann Stadium, Muncie, Ind.Box score/stats.Attendance: 23,813.Even the hideous first-half stats don't do justice to just how thoroughly Ball State dominated the early minutes of this game. IU's generation-long winning streak against the MAC looked to be over. Hopefully...
The season that was, game 7: Indiana 31, Iowa 28
Date: 10/14/06Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind.Box score/statsAttendance: 31,392From the time that Ball State pulled ahead of the Hoosiers early in the second game, the 2006 season always seemed just about ready to spiral out of control. After IU righted the ship against Ball State,...
The season that was, game 8: Ohio State 44, Indiana 3.
Date: 10/21/06Location: Ohio Stadium, Columbus, OhioBox score/statsAttendance: 105,267 Perhaps we all had some delusions of respectability in this game after the Iowa upset, but top-ranked OSU ended that pretty early, although not immediately. OSU gained 540 yards to IU's 165. The Buckeyes allowed...
The season that was, games 9/10/11: Indiana 46, Michigan State 21; Minnesota 63, Indiana 26; Michigan 34, Indiana 3.
Michigan StateDate: 10/28/06Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind.Box score/statsAttendance: 36444Historically, it’s rare for a Hoosier team to whip a non-Northwestern Big Ten opponent into submission, so I tried to savor last season’s MSU whipping as it transpired. The last time IU played a...
The season that was, Game 12: Purdue 28, Indiana 19.
Date: 11/18/06Location: Ross-Ade Stadium, West Lafayette, Ind.Box score/statsAttendance: 62,105 I'm going to be out of town for the weekend, so this may well be my last pregame post. Rehashing the depressing outcome of last year's Bucket game may not be everyone's idea of a way to spend Gameday...
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