Indiana Hoosiers Rumors & News

Ben Chappell has talked throughout preseason camp about just how explosive the Indiana University offense could be. On Thursday night, he backed up his words with action.

Now the Indiana University junior will be trying to make opposing receivers as uncomfortable as possible, beginning when the Hoosiers open the football season at 7:30p.m. Thursday against visiting Towson.

Indiana and Purdue will continue to meet in the final football game of the regular season, but they never can meet in the new Big Ten Conference championship game.

Indiana University's offensive line was a unit of extremes last season. It did one thing really well and another not so well.

Playing a rare early game, the United States had stalled after a quick start, and a double-digit lead was down to five as halftime approached.

James Blackmon Jr. dreamed of one day playing basketball for Indiana University. Now he knows he will. The Fort Wayne Luers freshman guard committed to Indiana University Thursday night.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Quarterback Ben Chappell has talked throughout preseason camp about just how explosive the Indiana offense was capable of being.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. So here's what we know after watching Indiana University obliterate Towson, a Football Championship Subdivision (formerly I-AA) patsy, 51-17 at Memorial Stadium:

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. One of the best quarterbacks in Indiana University history started his football career as a striper. Ben Chappell, as a fourth grader in the Monroe County Youth Football League, weighed too much by rules to run the ball.

The official visit dates are set for the state's most highly-sought uncommitted basketball recruit. Washington High School 6-10 senior Cody Zeller will visit Butler on Oct. 9-11, North Carolina on Oct. 15-17 and Indiana on Oct. 29-31, according to his mother, Lorri Zeller.

It's only Towson ... It's only Towson ... It's only Towson. But ... Indiana football did have reasons to be pleased with Thursday night's easy 51-17 victory over the Tigers in the season opener at Memorial Stadium. Let's talk about the good things first: 1. DARIUS WILLIS (14 carries, 102 yards, 2 touchdowns) If Willis is healthy and running the ball hard, it only makes IU's defense that much more difficult to stop. Thursday night, Willis ran hard. There were a couple of plays that really highlighted that fact. Late in the first half, IU had the ball at the Towson 22 and Willis went up the midd...

At first glance, Indiana football fans would have to be pretty happy with the way the divisions played out as announced by the Big Ten Wednesday night. Consider: *** IU will play Purdue every year and in the final regular season game which was something that was clearly up in the air. IU AD Fred Glass said he didn't know for sure that the game would be the final regular season game until early Wednesday morning. *** IU is also in the same division with Illinois, Ohio State, Penn State and Wisconsin. There wasn't going to be any way around the fact that IU was going to get in the same division ...

It's time for football predictions. I know there are a great number of people out there in the Hoosier Nation who believe this could be a break through year for Indiana football. I've seen people picking 8-4 and 7-5 consistently. On the other hand, I've read all the preseason magazines and Internet prognosticators who all expect IU to finish either at the bottom of the Big Ten or very close to the bottom. That's the easy pick for sure. IU has struggled for so long that no one wants to be the one to buck that trend. Perhaps I'm a skeptic or maybe I've just seen too many IU football seasons tha...

Indiana released its injury report for the first game against Towson just within the last 20 minutes and there are no real surprises. Wide Receiver Tandon Doss, who continues to nurse a groin injury, is listed as out. The same is true for Chris Adkins, the former Warren Central standout, who injured his ankle in the scrimmage last week and is out indefinitely. Adkins has been on crutches at practice with his ankle in a cast. Dre Muhammad, the wide receiver who transferred two years ago from Purdue, is also listed as out with a ankle injury. The fourth and final player on the injury report is l...

This is the final installment of our position-by-position look at Indiana football leading up to the Sept. 2 season opener this Thursday night at Memorial Stadium against Towson. Today we look at special teams. One note that should be made is that Tandon Doss is listed as the No. 1 kick and punt returner but because of his sore groin injury he is expected to see limited action Thursday against Towson. He may be held out all together. He did not practice Sunday afternoon and the best guess is that since there's 16 days between game 1 and game 2 on the schedule, they won't play him much in the o...