Two days in and the Indiana Hoosiers are still playing football.

Happy New Year, Everyone.  Let’s hope 2020 is as clear as it name suggests!

The Indiana Hoosiers play the UT Vols tonight in the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, FL.  It should be a good one and I BELIEVE the Hoosiers will win the game and their season will end with nine wins against four defeats.  Know that I have never seen a Hoosier football team win 9 games in my lifetime and I got here in 1968.

If the Hoosiers win, I think they will have a chance to be in the final 2019 Top 25 for the first time since Anthony Thompson was a junior in 1988.

I think he could still play myself.

It has been a great season and I certainly appreciate the efforts of Coach Tom Allen and his staff.  Thanks also goes to Athletic Director Fred Glass for helping the football program gain some ground.  It is amazing what can happen when a school administration gives a program the support and resources it needs to be successful, be it on a high school level or the college level.  No one can do it alone.

This year I was fortunate to attend some great college games.  Got to see five Indiana games, three Marshall games, and attended the hottest game of the year when Ole Miss played at Tuscaloosa against BAMA in late September.

I won’t be holding down the couch tonight watching the Hoosiers.  I will be pacing the floor I would say.  I have not done that since the last Eli Manning/New York Giants Super Bowl.

It is going to be fun.  We don’t want to listen to Rocky Top all night, I assure you.  Been there and done that in Neyland Stadium watching the Rebs get their Hotty Toddies handed to them.

Go IU!

Speaking the rights,

Danny Johnson