Author: Seth Tow

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. Indiana rounds out its non-conference slate with a Friday night game against FCS opponent Indiana State. The Sycamores haven’t posted a winning record since 2017, Curt Mallory’s second season as head coach. The team improved from 1-10 in 2023 to 4-8 last season, but ISU still has a lot of work to do to get back to winning ways. Opponent: Indiana State Date/Time/TV: Friday, September 12, 6:30 or 7 p.m. ET, BTN Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind. 2024 record/postseason result:…

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. Indiana welcomes Kennesaw State to Bloomington in week two. The Owls are entering their second year at the FBS level and struggled to a 2-10 finish. But KSU ranks near the top of the country in overall returning production, so that experience — along with a new head coach in Jerry Mack — could serve the team well. Opponent: Kennesaw State Date/Time/TV: Saturday, September 6, noon ET Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind. 2024 record/postseason result: 2-10, 2-6 C-USA Returning production,…

Indiana football’s busy summer on the recruiting trail has yielded more results. The Hoosiers got another commitment on Monday afternoon, this one from three-star receiver Kortez Rupert. He announced his decision on social media. Rupert was among the group of recruits who visited Bloomington over the weekend. He had another visit lined up this coming weekend at Boston College, and his other offers included Kansas State, Kentucky, Michigan State, Oregon State, and Purdue. IU offered him a scholarship in April. At 6-foot-1 and 155 pounds, Rupert helped East St. Louis (Illinois) High win the 6A state championship last season. He…

Indiana football has landed a commitment from class of 2026 tight end PJ McFarlane, he announced on social media Sunday. Standing 6-foot-5 and 205 pounds, MacFarlane is a three-star recruit, per 247Sports Composite. The Middletown, Ohio native is rated the No. 50 tight end in the class of 2026, and the No. 40 overall player from Ohio. He had 40 receptions for 568 yards and eight touchdowns as a junior in 2024 for Lakota East H.S. MacFarlane wrapped up a visit to Bloomington over the weekend, and committed right away. Per 247Sports, he had another visit to Missouri scheduled for…

With college football season starting to creep up, we’re running down Indiana’s schedule to preview all 12 opponents for 2025. Indiana football will open its 2025 campaign at home against Old Dominion. The Hoosiers will have plenty of hype entering this contest coming off their historic 2024 season in Curt Cignetti’s first year with the program. And they should have a pretty soft landing for the new year in a Monarchs team that hasn’t finished with a winning record since 2016. Opponent: Old Dominion Date/Time/TV: Saturday, August 30, 2:30 p.m. Location: Memorial Stadium, Bloomington, Ind. 2024 record/postseason result: 5-7, 4-4…

Lawrence “Jay” Timmons faced a crossroads one year ago; in football, and in life. After his sophomore year at Pine-Richland High in Gibsonia, Pa., he didn’t receive any college offers until June, when Akron was the lone school to offer him a scholarship. Timmons was not in a good place, mentally, in spring 2024. He always put immense pressure on himself to thrive on the field, and that pressure became overbearing. “After that sophomore year, I lost my love for football,” Timmons told The Daily Hoosier in a phone interview. “I didn’t really like the team I was on. I…

When Colsten Thompson played basketball at Hartselle High in Alabama, he found the girl’s games hard to watch. The Hartselle girl’s team almost always played right before the boy’s team, and Thompson just wasn’t into those contests. The slower-paced girl’s games didn’t capture his attention. “I couldn’t sit out there and watch the game before us. I couldn’t. It would slow my focus down. I just couldn’t,” Thompson told The Daily Hoosier in a phone interview. “That’s bad to say, but that was me in high school.” Many years later, in mid-April 2025, Thompson joined Indiana women’s basketball’s coaching staff…

Blake Smythe has been surrounded by football as long as he can remember. The game runs in the Smythe family — Blake’s grandfather, uncle, and father all played. That meant throwing the ball around with his brother from a young age, watching ESPN when other kids would watch cartoons, accumulating a large collection of football cards, and Thanksgivings highlighted by annual family Turkey Bowls. Smythe’s earliest football memory came at one of those Turkey Bowls, when he was five years old. He remembered running around playing with the adults and having a blast. He was bred into the game. “I…

Indiana women’s basketball has landed a commitment from junior college transfer Jade Ondineme, she announced on social media in early May. https://www.instagram.com/p/DJQEQgmChUv/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Ondineme, an Orleans, France native, played two seasons at Northwest Florida State, helping the program to a runner-up finish in 2024 before winning the NJCAA national championship in 2025. The 6-foot-3 forward averaged 6.0 points, 1.1 assists, and 4.5 rebounds per game this past season as a sophomore. She shot 51.1 percent from the field, but finished 46 percent at the free-throw line. The amount of eligibility Ondineme will have remaining at Indiana will likely depend on an…

Indiana football became Jacob Savage’s favorite program as his recruitment process went along, but he had one main concern. The linebacker was well aware of IU’s history on the football field. Head coach Curt Cignetti and his staff were new at that point — they talked a big game, but they were up against a long, overwhelmingly rough track record. So when Cignetti led the Hoosiers to a historic season in 2024, Savage watched from afar with increasing confidence of his eventual college decision. “Ever since camp, I really fell in love with Bloomington as a whole, and the coaching…