Indiana tight end Aaron Steinfeldt, a Bloomington North High School graduate, made his first career start against Michigan, and his quick development proves he belongs in the Big Ten.
Indiana wide receiver D.J. Matthews has dealt with a hamstring injury for nearly a month, but coach Tom Allen is hopeful the big-play threat can return to early-season form on Saturday against Rutgers.
The screens were pretty annoying, right? Why was Michigan not getting lined up? Why were they having so much success, even on long downs, with this tactic? What was the plan to beat them? How did they adjust? Let's dive in. Opening up Multiple Fronts A Walt Bell offense doesn't attack you with the normal array of football moves. They're irregulars, light infantry, moving units across the battlefield with lightning speed and choosing where to engage, which is ideally wherever you're late to arrive in force. The last thing they want to engage in is a battle in the middle. Your troops against theirs? Game over. What they would much rather do is split into two groups, always of varied compositions, use tempo to increase the likelihood of the defense failing to find their others and line up correctly, and use the second before the snap to pick one of those two widely separated points of attack to have the next engagement. IU's trick was to create multiple fronts, se