Indiana being ranked No. 6 after winning championship is ‘disrespectful’
Yahoo Sports Daily hosts Caroline Fenton and Jason Fitz react to the college football preseason AP poll and defending national champion Indiana being ranked No. 6. Watch the full episode of Yahoo Sports Daily on YouTube or YahooSports.TV .
Video Transcript
I'll give you one of the stories that I've got my eye on it.
It's the blatant outright disrespect for Indiana.
I am disgusted by a number six ranking- Disgusted for your defending national champions, who by the way, went undefeated last year.
Who last year were projected, they started by the way, at number 20 last year.
They were projected to finish sixth in the Big 10, and all they did was go 16 and 0 and win the national championship.
I'm sorry y'all don't feel comfortable admitting this, but Kurt Signetti right now is the Nick Saban of modern college football.
He deserves the benefit of the doubt.
Took Indiana to the playoffs- in his first year.
Took them to a national championship undefeated season in his second year, and this is where everybody says, "Well, yeah, but what about the quarterback change?
What about the quarterback change?"
A year ago right now, we were talking about Fernando Mendoza, who by the way, completed 66% of his passes for 4,700 yards, 30 touchdowns and 16 picks during his entire career at Cal.
That's who they were getting.
Now, this year, they have Josh Hoover, who in four years at TCU completed 66% of his ta- passes for almost 10,000 yards, 71 touchdowns, 33 picks.
They have more proof of concept at the quarterback position today than they did a year ago, and we're ranking them number six?
You're coming off an undefeated season.
If that wasn't a big old IU on the side of their helmet, if that was an OU or a G or an A on the side of the helmet, benefit of the doubt would put them much higher than sixth overall.
I will not stand for Hoosiers disrespect.
