If you happened to hear a shockingly loud and raucous noise right around 3 p.m. last Saturday afternoon, Nov. 8, maybe coming from some loyal Indiana sports bars like The Lodge, The Warehouse Bar Pizzeria, Sluggers, Joe’s on Weed, Kirkwood Bar or Finley Dunne’s—hope you didn’t panic.

It was just the sound of sheer sports jubilation.

The Hoosiers football team had won again, and in the most dramatic of fashions. What a season, what a past two seasons, it has been for Indiana football!

Chicago-area alumni—and there are many of you now proudly roaming the streets of Chicago who have bled the Hoosier Red for many years—can finally proudly say:

“Indiana? It’s a football school now.”

Many never would have thought those words possible, as basketball, for many, many years, has been first an

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