Carter Smith

How would we feel here in the Bold North State if Carolina or Duke or State or Wake were playing in the college football playoff with a legitimate chance to win it all? That's exactly the sort of stuff that Indiana, a basketball school, is doing in football right now, and it's almost impossible to believe, at least, of course, until you watch the Hoosiers play.

Against Nebraska, Indiana will take the field with the more talented team, led by running back Turbo Richard, wide receivers Charlie Becker and Nick Marsh, offensive tackle Carter Smith, defensive tackles Tyrique Tucker and Mario Landino, linebackers Relija Hardy and Isaiah Jones, safety Amare Farrell, and cornerback Jamari Sharp.

You need dudes, and Signetti's got a bunch of them at Indiana once again.

DG, to the Red River Rivalry now, where top-ranked Texas is 4-0.

I think that they were able to show up, play their best game of the year, as I almost knocked my water bottle over.

They were able to show up, play their best game of the year, run behind the left side of the offensive line, as they typically do, because that seems to be the best side, and that's where Carter Smith is, so I would agree.

And Indiana was able to mix so many things together.

And, man, the RPO just works to perfection.

But you, those first guys have an extra level of grit.

Like, I look at Smith, the tackle, or I believe Omar Cooper Jr.

They were with Indiana before this coaching staff.

So they had this, like, hunger and fire for, like-

Right.

And, um, you look at the guys on defense, you look at the guys on offense.

I mean, Carter Smith has become the best tackle in America, and he is a first-round draft pick on the offensive line, and yet you said it.

I mean, these guys were not, most of them anyway, were not highly recruited out of high school, and that was the big storyline a year ago was, man Indiana just won a national championship with zero five-stars, not, a- and a bunch of three-stars-

He's g-

I mean, Carter Smith's gonna be a first round pick tackle.

Lynch at s- at center seems to be really good for them.

Um-

It's also rarefied air to be so deep at running back, like Indiana is, that possibly your top two running backs are down, and someone who many thought would be the third stringer this year comes in and rushes for 203 yards and a touchdown.

He had several explosive runs, huge in part due to Nick Marsh and Shaz Preston blocking at receiver, and Carter Smith in the left side of that Indiana offensive line just being dominant, possibly one of the best sides of an offensive line, of any offensive line in college football.

Indiana's offensive line was inconsistent.

It has been.

I'll have a dislike in there.

Carter Smith got a holding call today.

I don't know about all that.

It was a holding.

We'll put it away.

And that will be, uh, the conclusion of the game.

But that is something you just don't see very often from Indiana, and especially Carter Smith at that left tackle position.

And Indiana continues to.