Richard Johnson

There's a lot of places we could go.

I'm going to just talk first about the margins.

This game was decided at them.

The Indiana Hoosiers, in the last two years since Kurt Signetti got there, have blocked eight punts.

There is not another team in the power conferences that has blocked more than five punts in these last two years.

The decisive play in the game, to the extent that there was one, and there never is one in a football game, is Mikael Kamara for Indiana.

just casually blocking a rugby rollout punt.

They weren't trying to block it.

The block wasn't on.

I went back and looked a bunch of times.

They said it.

Weird, but he gets a hand on this kick, this punt.

It becomes the Indiana touchdown.

That's seven right there.

I think you could certainly quibble with at least a better chance at three and maybe seven being passed up by Mario Cristobal at the end of the first half with some bizarre game management that he had outrun for a while.

I hated it.

And I've been pro the way Mario's handled this playoff.

I've seen it on the show, including when conservatism has been called for, as it was, for example, in College Station.

It was not called for here.

I actually thought, not that it matters now, that Kurt Cignetti himself did not cover himself in glory at the end of the first half.