Editor’s note: This is the first in a series of post-mortems on Indiana’s position groups. We’ll spread them out over the next few weeks, looking at how each unit fared during the 2020 season, and how each group projects to look in 2021. First up, the specialists.
How they fared
The lasting image of Indiana’s trip to the 2020 Gator Bowl was a special teams oversight — a morale-draining, backbreaking, ever-predictable special teams blunder that helped spoil IU’s first postseason game in three seasons.
But it wasn’t just that moment in Jacksonville where IU’s attention to detail in the special teams phase was questionable.