It goes without saying that 2020 is a weird year. What’s down is up and what’s up is down. Penn State and Michigan? Combined, they are 1-7. Northwestern and Purdue? Combined, they are 6-1. Weird. It is enough to make one feel a certain sense of dissociation from reality. Then, there are the 4-0 and top-10 ranked Indiana Hoosiers.
A few year back when Tom Allen took over the head coaching duties in Bloomington, he cited Mark Dantonio’s Michigan State Spartans as the type of program that he wanted his Indiana program to emulate.