#11 Indiana (6-1) vs Ole Miss (4-5) (12:30pm ET, ABC)

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Unsure what to make of this matchup. Could be a good one, or it feels like could be a terribly one-sided matchup for either team.
 
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Consider Indiana is playing a team with a losing record in the Gator Bowl and you'd be upset too.
 
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So it looks like Indiana is still breaking in its 2nd string QB and getting him fully comfortable with their offense (Tuttle has only played 1 1/2 games since Penix got hurt before Indiana’s last 2 games were suspended due to COVID).

Lots of short throws and the one long throw was too high for the open receiver.
 
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BreatheUT said:
Consider Indiana is playing a team with a losing record in the Gator Bowl and you'd be upset too.
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Yeah, Iowa State’s loss to OU and the CFP committee’s rankings pushed them just outside of New Years 6 bowl they were expected to be invited to. Despite being the 2nd highest ranked Big 10 team behind Ohio State (and it’s worth noting that the Big 10 decides its bowl games through a tier setup - so their bowl game became decided by the conference), they ended up falling past the Citrus Bowl, Music City Bowl...about as far as the conference could let them fall.

The general thought is the conference saw them as less-appealing of a football brand when it came to TV broadcast ratings despite their ranking.
 
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If I were Ole Miss, I’d consider defending the run, defending the short pass, and daring Indiana to throw deep, since it looks like the timing/comfort clearly isn’t there between the newer QB (Tuttle) and his WRs on those throws.
 
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As bad as the SEC is, the hypocrisy and corruption (for lack of a better word) in the B1G dwarfs anything down in the SEC offices.
 
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Tuttle can’t hit a deep pass to save his life...the last one bounced off the ground and the next was overthrown.

Ole Miss might end up leading by 13-17 going into the half

Edit: Turns out Tuttle might be hurt, so time to move on to their 3rd string, Freshman QB who has not even thrown a pass this season.
 
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Nope, Tuttle is still in.

First pass, RB slips and falls down on the screen and the ball sails over his head.

Second pass, hits the TE on the finger tips rather than the hands and it falls incomplete.

He’s able to draw two straight pass interference calls on Ole Miss with his next two pass.

Then throws too far to a wide open IU player, leading him so that the only way to come down with it is out of bounds.

Looking like Indiana might only come out of this game with 3-6 points.
 
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Game. Ole Miss going to win.

Indiana going to continue holding one distinction though: not having won a bowl game since they played Baylor in the Copper Bowl in 1991.
 
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